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..
• 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

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.
• 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

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.
• 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