Ron Hoge

Ron Hoge serves as a director and consultant to several clean tech startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently Chairman of Pinnacle Engines, an ultra-efficient, low emission internal combustion engine design company. Mr. Hoge has over 40 years of business experience with executive leadership roles in seven different companies on three continents from Fortune 500 firms to venture-backed startups. He was President of Cummins Brasil S.A, President and Chief Executive Officer of Onan Corporation (now Cummins Power Generation), President and Chief Executive of Magnetek, and President of a $1.5 billion aerospace division of Allied Signal. Mr. Hoge has served on a dozen public and non-profit boards over the years. In addition to Accion, he is a Trustee of the EARTH University Foundation and on the Board of the Population Media Center. Mr. Hoge has a BA in Mathematics from Amherst College and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford University. He speaks Portuguese from his years living in Brazil.