The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 08, 2010
President Obama Awards $2.3 Billion for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs
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Steve Spinner
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Steve Spinner is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress focusing on Energy Policy. Based in Silicon Valley, he is an advisor to numerous clean-tech and Internet companies.
In September 2010, Mr. Spinner concluded his appointment as the loan programs advisor in the Office of the Secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy focused on implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Appointed on April 29, 2009, Mr. Spinner helped oversee the more than $100 billion of loan guarantee and direct lending authority for the Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program, or LGP, and the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing, or ATVM, loan program.
He worked closely with the commercial lending, state and regional development finance agencies, venture capital, private equity, and entrepreneurial communities. He was also the department’s member on the White House Business Council, the White House Innovation Cohort, and the White House Automotive Communities Task Force.
Steve Spinner’s career spans nearly 20 years in the technology, media, energy, and retail industries. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Mr. Spinner served the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team on the technology innovation and government reform working group. Before then, Mr. Spinner had been an active advisor and investor to over 30 leading technology companies, helping entrepreneurs grow their ventures, focusing on incorporation, financing, product development, organizational behavior, business development, and sales and marketing.
In 2002, Mr. Spinner founded Sports Potential, the preeminent educational services and sports sciences company. Mr. Spinner was senior vice president of NotifyMe Networks, a voice ASP company, which was sold to AT&T in 2001. From 1996–2000 he held several positions at NBC including senior vice president of strategic partnerships where he oversaw the company’s business and channel development departments, operations with over $70 million in annual revenues. Before his tenure at NBC, Mr. Spinner was program manager for Atlanta Centennial Olympic Properties, the marketing joint venture between the United States Olympic Committee and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.
Mr. Spinner began his career based in both Europe and Asia as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company focusing on media and entertainment clients. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard University and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Wesleyan University.
A resident of Menlo Park, CA, Mr. Spinner is married and has two children.
Email: sspinner@americanprogress.org
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A list of Obama’s California bundlers so far this year follows:
Min Max Name City State Employer Gave in 2008
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$200,000 $500,000 Spinner, Steve Menlo Park CA Silver Lake Sumeru Y
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