BPG Motors
I had recently traveled to China with my family and witnessed firsthand the effects of global warming. I realized that electric vehicles are a necessity wanted to do do my part.
Two years later.
We recently unveiled our 3rd iteration of the Uno at CES in Vegas. We are now actively looking for a strategic partner to help bring the Uno to the next level.
www.bpg-motors.com
BPG Werks
I recently co-founded BPG Werks with my partner Ryan Fairhead. Our company, based out of Brampton Ontario, is developing a new class of all terrain vehicle, the DTV Shredder. The DTV (Dual Tracked Vehicle) takes the off-road riding experience into a whole new realm of extreme sports.
The Shredder is a cross between skateboarding/snowboarding and Motocross. The Shredder is powered by an 18hp racing engine and two mean tank-threads capable of shredding any terrain at high speed: Snow, sand, trails, the side of a mountain, literally making the outdoors your terrain park. We designed the DTV Shredder to be a miniature tank you ride like a skateboard.
We have patents granted for DTV Shredder including the tracked system, steering/transmission system and design. We are currently in the process of filing more patents and scaling up for our first production run.
BPG Werks is a privately funded company. If you are interested in investing, please contact us at Contact us.
For more information about our Team, Board and Advisors, please visit www.bpg-werks.com/team
Benjamin P. Gulak
Chairman & Founder
Ben was selected to join Team Canada and represent Canada at the International Science and Engineering Fair on 3 separate occasions, a distinction that only 2 other Canadians have achieved. There he was awarded 2nd and a 3rd place honors. Ben has won numerous science and design awards over the years, including the prestigious National Collegiate of Inventors and Innovators Alliance Award and Popular Science Magazine’s Invention of the Year 2008.2 In 2008 Ben had the distinction of being named as one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20. Ben is the founder of BPG Werks. He currently resides in Boston where continues to work on the Shredder while attending MIT and Harvard.
Richard Godfrey
Director (BPG Werks)
Rich founded Yerf-Dog go karts. In 1998 Yerf-Dog was sold to Cerberus when it had 45% domestic market share and $68 million in revenue. In 2004, Rich started Baja grew the company to 72 million in revenue by 2007. Rich’s primary focus has been on mass merchants and non traditional retailers of power sports. Rich is now bringing his expertise and experience in both manufacturing and distribution to BPG Werks to help commercialize the DTV Shredder.
John Risley
Director (BPG Werks)
One of the biggest compliments you can pay John Risley is to tell him he runs his business “differently” than others in the fresh seafood industry. After originally founding Clearwater Fine Foods Inc. as a fish store in Nova Scotia, he quickly realized that any future growth would mean operating in non-traditional markets. By surrounding himself with many of the best employees in the business, Mr. Risley has seen the company grow both domestically and internationally. Sales and marketing functions are now decentralized, with offices in China, Los Angeles, Orlando, Toronto, and England. The company also maintains eight plants in Atlantic Canada and Quebec, as well as a fleet of 30 offshore fishing vessels. In the face of increasing international competition and dwindling natural resources, Mr. Risley is safeguarding the future of the company by investing heavily in research and development, new information technology systems, and attracting and retaining the best people.
Brett Wilson
Director (BPG Motors)
With as much energy as the city he calls home (Calgary), W. Brett Wilson never gets tired of bankrolling the right deal. A gutsy negotiator with a surprising eye for detail, this big city player with small town charm helped turn a maverick startup into the energy industry’s leading investment bank, brokering thousands of financing and M&A (mergers and acquisitions) deals worth over $150 billion. Growing up on the Saskatchewan prairie with a mother who did social work and a father who sold cars, Brett became what some would describe as a rare combination: a capitalist with a heart. Touched by his parents’ commitment to give back to their own community, Brett promised to do the same – on a slightly bigger scale. Known for his flair for throwing a great party in support of a great cause, Brett is also one of Canada’s most successful philanthropists, having given – and engaged others to give – tens of millions to nonprofit initiatives.Brett translated his instincts for investing in the right people into major stakes in the energy, agriculture, real estate, sports and entertainment industries. Brett said, “I invested in UNO because it is an exciting project but my investment is also a call on the creativity and genius of its inventor – Ben Gulak. I really do expect UNO to evolve considerably from its prototype to whatever commercialization version becomes – and I am excited to be a key investor in this stage of the evolution of Ben Gulak and UNO.”
Brad Harkavy
Director (BPG Motors)
Brad Harkavy has over 20 years of technical and management experience bringing new companies and products to life. As the President of Harkador Partners, he set the strategy and took an active role managing and directing multiple start up and emerging companies. He sits on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of several early stage companies, and is the former CEO of AkiTherm Inc where he wrote the business plan and negotiated university licensing rights for patented mems based explosive detection technology. As the CEO of Vert Inc (www.vert.net), he had full P&L responsibility for a startup, location based display hardware/software media company. Brad has been the Emerging Company Business Manager at Teradyne Inc where he envisioned and developed nontraditional sales channel and managed several product lines. He was also a Product Marketing Manager for GSI Lumonics Inc. (currently GSI group.), where he was responsible for managing applications software, product development, and sales of the company’s major offerings.
Jonathan Seelig
Advisor
As a Managing Director of Globespan, Jonathan sources new investment opportunities, evaluates and negotiates investments, and serves on the boards of portfolio companies. Based in Boston, he focuses on investments in Communications and Internet/Infrastructure companies. Jonathan, a successful entrepreneur himself, shares his company creation and operating experience, technical expertise, and broad international perspective to help the firm’s portfolio companies succeed. Jonathan co-founded Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global Internet content and application delivery services company. At Akamai, he managed global infrastructure development and deployment, international expansion, and business development in a fast-growth environment. He knows first-hand the challenges of managing a high growth startup. “I love being with entrepreneurs who are building fast paced, innovative and highly responsive companies.” At Globespan, the companies he works with “know that they can ask me for advice on absolutely any issue. I’ve seen many of them before.”
Alan J. Wilzig
Advisor
Alan was born in Clifton, New Jersey on April 20, 1965, the third child of Naomi and Siggi Wilzig. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in June of 1987 he immediately joined Trustcompany Bank and served in a variety of executive capacities, culminating in serving as President (2000) and CEO (2002) and being elected Chairman in 2003. In May of 2004, Alan engineered the merger between Trustcompany Bank and North Fork Bank, one of the most successful financial institutions in the United States. He served on North Fork Bank’s Board until 2006. North Fork was sold to Capital One Financial in 2007. Alan is very active in civic and philanthropic activities. Currently, he serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of Trustees of LibertyHealth; he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Rainforest Alliance, JCP – Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan, Gear Up Foundation and The Centurion Foundation. He is a first-round investor in www.Brammo.com and serves as advisor to many powersports and racing ventures. When he is not tending to family and investments, Alan participates actively in various forms of motorsport, and will be competing for the 2011 Cooper Tires IMSA Lites Championship (www.wilzigracing.com). Alan , his wife Karin and their two small children reside in lower Manhattan.
Charles Bombardier
Advisor
Charles completed his Mechanical Engineering degree at the Cole de Technologie SupErieure in 1998. He joined Bombardier in January 1999 and worked 7 years for its Recreational Product Division (BRP) developing new revolutionary vehicles like the Side-By Side Elite Snowmobile and the Three-Wheeled Spyder Roadster. In 206, after finishing the Spyder project (as the Engineering Project Manager), Charles left BRP to devote more time to his personal companies and form his own private Research Center.
Russell Mitchell
Advisor
Russell Mitchell is the president of Exile Cycles, now in its tenth year of doing business. The company has grown from its modest beginnings into a multi-million dollar corporation. In the beginning Exile Cycles consisted of Russell whittling one-off motorcycles in his own garage. Today they have purchased a new facility of almost 20,000 square feet. Exile Cycles manufactures nearly every conceivable part of a motorcycle, and sells these parts both direct to the public and through its network of over 1,000 dealers. Exile produces around twenty complete custom bikes each year, and these machines have garnered hundreds of magazine features around the globe. Exile Cycles are instantly recognizable for their clean, tough, industrial styling.
Russell and his colorful crew have competed in many of the Discovery Channel “Biker Build Off” shows as well as the “World Bike Build Off”, and Russell now hosts his own show on the Speed Channel.
Philip Rosedale
Advisor
A tinkerer since childhood and an entrepreneur since he was a teenager, Philip Rosedale was always captivated with the idea of simulated reality and imaginary environments. He worked as CTO of RealNetworks until computing technology caught up with his fancies. Then he founded Linden Labs and built a virtual civilization called Second Life. That environment now boasts milions of citizens and a buzzing economy (currency: Linden dollars) that represents over $10 million in real value.
Second Life may be artificial but it’s hardly trivial, Rosedale says. Its appeal to human creativity is obvious, but beyond the thriving in-world industries and bustling social spaces, real-life businesses (and even some religious organizations) are using Second Life as a platform for meetings, services and collaboration.
Rosedale is the former CEO of Linden Labs, and currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Rosedale had stated that his goal with Second Life was to demonstrate a viable model for a virtual economy or virtual society. In his own words, “I’m not building a game. I’m building a new continent.”
