Veronica Rocha Email & Phone Number

Honolulu, Hawaii

Essential Leap offers climate innovation consulting to entities across the private, public and non-governmental sectors, bringing their breakthrough technologies and projects to market more efficiently and effectively. We do that by creating business ecosystems, including securing non-dilutive and grants fundraising, fostering partnerships, engaging stakeholders, and providing policy and regulatory guidance. With a background spanning climate change, technology innovation, business and engineering — and experience across private industry, startups, government, and non-governmental organizations — I offer a unique ability to accelerate climate-conscious projects. Accomplishments include: • Raised more than $65 million in grant funding on behalf of clients• Established a consortium 30+ cross-sector partners to establish a breakthrough zero-emission maritime transportation industry• Created over 6 climate mitigation and adaptation/resilience programs across private, public, and non-governmental sectors• Fundraised over $300 thousand in climate conscious pilot projects• Impact featured in Fortune 500 corporate sustainability reports• Worked with clients from the US West Coast to Washington DC, as well as in Hawaii and Japan

Honolulu, Hawaii

Led the Renewable Energy Branch for the Hawaii State Energy Office (HSEO). Responsible for policies, programs, and strategies to achieve Hawaii’s goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045. Achievements include: • Led efforts during 6 legislative sessions in support of passage of landmark Hawaii state laws, including the establishment of 100% Renewable Portfolio Standard and Community Based Renewable Energy Program• Led efforts on 10+ regulatory proceedings and actively participated in stakeholder planning meetings across various energy topics, including distributed energy resources interconnection, resource planning, reliability standards, interisland cable, and electric vehicle fast-charger tariffs• Implemented and administered $3 million per year renewable fuels production tax credit• Appointed as the representative for Governor David Ige for The Solar and Wind Energy Governor’s Coalition, to advance federal policies that support the national deployment of solar and wind energy• Led State of Hawaii – Dept. Navy Renewable Energy Working Group, collaborating on redevelopment of contaminated lands, renewable energy development, waste to hydrogen project, and a microgrid policy analysis• Enabled collaboration across federal and state agencies to analyze, plan and implement greenhouse gas emissions reductions regulations that properly take into account clean energy measures as key compliance mechanisms. • Led the State of Hawaii – Okinawa Prefecture Committee on Promoting the Deployment of Island Energy Technologies Overseas, to foster economic development for businesses in Hawaii and Okinawa by building an island model for overseas deployment• Built online tools and apps including Renewable EnerGIS, Permitting Wizard, Clean Energy Projects Directory, and the EV Stations Hawaii Mobile App

Honolulu, Hawaii

Integrated my technical background, business training, international experience and Spanish language proficiency to lead Sopogy's Latin American sales team.• Developed a Latin America country-specific sales strategy and plan• Managed a sales force of 12 international partnerships in target territories, representing a $40 million opportunity funnel• Successfully transitioned my career from med-tech to clean-tech to align with my core value of improving the health of our planet

Honolulu

Supported healthcare startups in Hawaii and the continental US, providing expertise in business development, marketing and operations strategy. Accomplishments:• Developed initial market specifications, product positioning and payment strategy for a neonatal system• Developed branding, downstream marketing and sales strategy for an Electronic Health Record system• Identified potential biomedical markets for a novel miniature injector-pump technology• Implemented an adoption strategy for four key accounts of an electronic medical image transfer company• Developed business processes for a remote monitoring healthcare system company

Led product specifications, marketing, and communications content for the NUVANT cardiac monitoring system. • NUVANT was featured in the 2009 San Diego TED conference and won a Technology Pioneer Award in 2010 from the World Economic Forum• Developed and executed NUVANT's reimbursement strategy in 6 months, which established national payment for 100 million covered lives• Coverage ramped up billable sales from zero to $850K+ within the first 3 months of product launch

Launched two new embolic protection technologies cleared by the Federal Drug Administration under the 510K process. Completed both in less than two years. • Collaborated with R&D, Marketing and Clinical departments to develop marketing requirements, transform them into product requirements, and develop validation and verification protocols for testing• Analyzed test results from executed protocols, used to support the two FDA 510K clearances

As Hospira acquired Abbott's Hospital Products Division, I became production supervisor. I worked to develop my leadership skills and improve manufacturing operations efficiency, ultimately transforming our manufacturing process. This included:• Increasing labor efficiency by 17% • Reducing manufacturing costs by 30%• Leading an understaffed team of 40 direct labor employees from 3 departments• Achieving 100% of scheduled production

Ensured compliance for a successful FDA operations audit. Corrected compliance deficiencies. Hired, trained and led two engineers to support this initiative.

Responsible for supporting ~50% of products manufactured in-house, including working with quality control to resolve issues with out-of-compliance materials. Developed and validated new manufacturing operations procedures.

Mba

• Awarded National Society of Hispanic MBAs Scholarship for academic and professional achievement

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Bs Mechanical Engineering