ICanNY
iCANny is a direct descendant of the Hudson Valley Center for Innovation (HVCFI) Inc., a Hudson Valley New York USA based incubator/accelerator. The Hudson Valley is located just to the North of New York City and to the South of the Capitol, Albany. Since 2005, the HVCFI has been assisting entrepreneurs, early and later stage enterprises: develop their business models; create viable sustainable financial strategies; design and integrate internet, digital media and social media tactics; establish collaborations with academic and corporate resources; create global competitive analysis; synthesize intellectual property portfolios; devise competitive global sales and partnering relationships; prepare and introduce its clients to various funding sources and grant opportunities.
Board of Directors
| Chairman | Dr. Arthur Anthonisen |
| Vice Chairman | Stephen Young Esq. |
| Managing Director and CEO | Les Neumann |
| Thomas Phillips | President - Hudson Valley Technology Development Center |
| Richard Diehl | President - Strategic Consulting Group |
| John Lonczak | President - Phi-D Product & Brand Design |
| Richard Obeirne | Airport Properties |
| Carolyn Hanson Esq. |
Business Development Executives
| Martin Saposnick | President - Remsen Group |
| Stephen Young Esq. | President - MBG Consulting |
| Lars Ling | President - Cleantech Region |
| Andreas Stefanidis | Academy of Entrepreneurs |
Organizations and Affiliations
 Founding and Board of Directors Member of the New York State Business Incubation Association |
| Founding Partner of the Incubators for Collaborating & Leveraging Energy & Nanotechnology – iclean |
| Collaboration with College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering |
| New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) |
| Advisor – Marist College Center for On-Demand and Collaborative Computing |
In 2010, the HVCFI co-founded a consortium with the College for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany and the Saratoga Technology and Energy Park (STEP). The consortium, under the banner of iClean (Incubators for Collaborating & Leveraging Energy and Nanotechnology), was recognized by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research Development Authority) and as one of six incubators and accelerators specializing in accelerating and commercializing emerging New York State energy enterprises and technologies. The iCLEAN consortium already assists several companies in the development of business plans, marketing strategies, technology roadmaps, prototype development and deployment, and plays a role in funding and commercialization. iCLEAN formally links the Capital Region’s academic and research prowess and the Lower Hudson Valley’s (HVCFI) expertise in business development and commercialization.
HVCFI’s New York WindPower Initiative is a cluster intended to develop and organize the commercialization of wind turbines for deployment in urban and suburban commercial, multi-family residential and municipal locations. Partnering with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) of Troy, New York the WPI is endeavoring to establish a wind commercialization and development cluster in the City of Newburgh NY. The cluster will train unemployed, unskilled, semi-skilled, and underemployed individuals to manufacture, assemble, distribute and commercialize (vertical access and distributed wind generation) wind turbines. RPI will use their laboratory facilities for testing, validation and certification of international wind turbine manufacturers who want to sell and distribute their products within the highly valued sales territory -- the Northeast Corridor of the U.S. The WPI will also oversee the testing, validation and certification of this class of turbines for worldwide performance measurement and commercialization.
