Milwaukee-based Mid-West Energy Research Consortium (
M-WERC) will change key leadership positions as the organization’s co-founder and former chief executive officer,
Alan Perlstein, plans to retire, the organization recently announced.
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Midwest Energy Research Consortium interim executive director Elizabeth Thelen.[/caption]
Elizabeth Thelen, former director of entrepreneurship and talent at
The Water Council, will become M-WERC’s interim executive director. Thelen joined M-WERC in 2020 from
Milwaukee 7 where she ran the Midwest Innovation Exchange program.
M-WERC executive director
Dan Ebert, who
took the position in 2019, will become senior strategic advisor with a focus on special projects.
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Midwest Energy Research Consortium senior strategic advisor Dan Ebert[/caption]
M-WERC was founded in 2009 by three universities and four industrial companies to focus on conducting collaborative and transformative energy related seed research, according to M-WERC’s website. The research consortium has since grown to more than 90 members with an annual budget of more than $ 1 million.