Novele appoints Charles Conwell III as Chief Executive Officer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – July 1, 2022 - Novele today announced that Charles Conwell III has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Conwell succeeds AJ Glassberg Co-founder and CEO, who will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Charles Conwell comes to Novele after nearly two decades as a senior executive in the commercial real estate sector. In addition to his real estate activities, Mr. Conwell has supported founders in the technology field as an advisor and angel investor, and also currently serves on the Boards of the Union Square Partnership in New York City and The Borrelli Institute for Real Estate Studies in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University.
“I started looking for the right person to take over as CEO almost a year ago. Charles’ breadth of understanding of not only the needs of urban infrastructures, but the challenges that stakeholders in these environments face when thinking about renewables and energy storage was apparent,” Glassberg said. “I look forward to working with him on strengthening our supply chain, US manufacturing, and delivering Energy Board into the global market.”
On joining Novele, Charles said, “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such visionary founders, and the chance to provide owners of real property the energy storage solutions they need to make substantive improvements in reducing carbon emissions currently produced by commercial buildings around the globe.” He added, “I look forward to bringing production of our Energy Boards to the USA, and to the next phase of Novele’s development.”
About Novele:
Novele designs, manufactures, and sells energy storage solutions for dense urban environments. The first product, Energy Board, is an ultra-thin space saving energy storage solution designed for scaled applications in buildings of all types.