Company Profile for WestStart-CALSTART

--WestStart-CALSTART is a non-profit organization that works with the public and private sectors to develop advanced transportation technologies and foster companies that will help clean the air, lessen our dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, and create jobs. It was founded in 1992 as CALSTART, but rapidly expanded to address national and broader Western needs. It now operates as WestStart with CALSTART as its California operating division.

WestStart-CALSTART serves as an industry catalyst to spur advanced transportation technologies, systems and the companies that make them via its four main activities:

Strategic Brokering

Linking Partners & Technologies

We serve as a highly effective strategic broker, working with an international industry network to quickly connect our participants with global partners and opportunities, more rapidly bringing clean transportation to the marketplace.

Spurring Technology

Development & Demonstration

Together with private industry and public agency partners, we create technology teams and develop funding opportunities for commercialization of programs in electric, hybrid electric, natural gas, fuel cell and clean mobility technologies.

Providing Information

Industry Information & Analysis

We operate the industry's premier information web site and provide timely news and trends analysis of the latest international developments, giving participants early knowledge of opportunities, competitor activities and how new developments fit together in a broader picture.

Finding Solutions

Implementation & Commercialization Consulting

We are an industry leader in providing creative clean mobility solutions, working with fleets to implement clean fuel vehicle solutions, with manufacturers to develop commercialization strategies, and with transit operators seeking new ideas to boost ridership.

   Company:                WestStart-CALSTART

   Headquarters Address:   2181 E. Foothill Blvd
                           Pasadena, California 91107

   Main Telephone:         626/744-5600

   Type of Organization:   Non-profit

   Industry:               Professional Services: Consulting

   Key Executives:         CEO: John Boesel
                           Senior Vice President: Bill Van Amburg

   Public Relations
     Contact:              Susan Romeo
     Phone:                626/744-5600
     Email:                sromeo@calstart.org

   Senior Vice President
     Contact:              Bill Van Amburg
     Phone:                626/744-5600
     Email:                bvanamburg@calstart.org