Management Team

Jed Swan, CEO

Prior to joining 7AC Jed served on the board of the Swan Group which is an international conglomerate of six independent supply and distribution companies servicing the HVAC and water supply industries. Jed is also the founder and CEO of Drydock Ventures, a private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on investments as well as providing strategic guidance and board level expertise. Prior positions include an HVAC manufacturer's representative role at Emerson Swan and working in the investment management group at Goldman Sachs.

Jed holds an MBA from Boston University and a BA from Georgetown University.

Peter Vandermeulen
, CTO

Before founding 7AC, Peter founded BlueShift Technologies to introduce the use of continuous flow semiconductor processing to the semiconductor industry.  He has raised over $20M for BlueShift and closed a Venture Capital “A” round during his last MBA class at Babson College.  

Prior to founding BlueShift, Peter was VP, GM of Brooks Automations’ Factory Interface Systems, and ran marketing and sales for their Vacuum Systems Businesses Unit which he helped grow from $2.5 to $60M in 4 years. He helped design the E500 Ion Implanter at Varian Ion Implant Systems, which resulted in sales of over $2.4B and more than 800 units installed worldwide.

Peter has a background in physics (MS Eindhoven University) and business administration (MBA Babson College) and holds 8 patents with many more applications pending.

Michael Sherber, LEED, AP, PE, HBDP, VP Engineering

Michael has over twenty-five years of experience in manufacturing, contracting and design of high performance HVAC equipment and systems. He is nationally recognized for his expertise on indoor air quality, high-performance HVAC system design, air to air energy recovery, evaporative cooling, and desiccant dehumidification.   He is a licensed mechanical engineer in seventeen states.

Michael has spoken frequently on high-performance HVAC system design, evaporative cooling, and indoor air quality at US Department of Energy Rebuild America, NESEA and national ASHRAE events. He is very active both at the local and national level in ASHRAE where he is immediate past President of the Connecticut ASHRAE Chapter, former Chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 5.5 (Air to Air Energy Recovery), current Chair of TC 5.7 (Evaporative Cooling), and current Vice-Chair of TC 8.12 (Desiccant Dehumidification). He is a former member of the ASHRAE Standard 62.1 (Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality) Committee.

Michael holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Princeton University, MS Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Columbia University, NY.

Colin Paterson, Business Development

Colin has over 20 years of experience in Hi-Tech companies in the computing, semiconductor and clean-tech markets in Engineering, Marketing and Business Development roles. An early employee of MMC Networks, a small start-up company in Sunnyvale, CA that created the world’s first Network Processor product and went on to be acquired for $4.5B by AMCC in 2000, Colin created and managed R&D teams in the UK, France and the US. Moving to the Boston area in 2001 was followed by executive business development, consulting and engineering roles for start-up and established US and Asian companies in the semiconductor, wireless and clean-tech arena.

Colin holds B.Eng and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Digital Engineering and an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at U.Mass. Amherst.

Art Laflamme, Engineering Manager

Art brings over 30 years of mechanical design experience in the semiconductor capital equipment field to 7AC. At ASM Ion Implant, where he was responsible for the mechanical design group, Art worked on the highly successful E220 and E500 implanter products.

Past employers include Varian, Eaton and most recently Tokyo Electron where he was the Mechanical Engineering Director for reactive ion etch products. Art’s forte is delivering elegant, robust and cost effective product designs which he is now leveraging on the design of 7AC’s first commercial product.

Art holds 17 US patents and a BS degree in Industrial Arts from Fitchburg State College.

Board of Directors

Jed Swan (CEO 7AC)
Peter Vandermeulen (CTO 7AC)

Steve Young (CEO Carrier India, UTC, Praxair, NAESCO board)
Mitch Tyson (CEO PRI Automation, Advanced Electron Beams, co-founder NECEC)
Roberto Ramirez (CFO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center)


Technical Advisory Board

Eric Graham (Co-founder 7AC, Director Fraunhofer Techbridge, ENERNOC, Founder/CEO Coldwave Systems)

Dr. Lucio Mesquita (Renowned expert in desiccant and solar systems)

Henry Vandermark (Solar Thermal Expert)