HiberTec Homes
100% Wildfire-Proof Homes
Company Information
HiberTec is building the world’s first truly wildfire-proof homes.
It’s created a patented design and process where custom modular homes automatically lower completely underground when wildfire threats arise. They then resurface safely to ground level after the threat has passed. Think of them as the first-ever hydraulic homes.
Sending a home underground is easy and fast. Homeowners can direct their home underground using HiberTec’s mobile app. And the home will be sent underground in about fifteen minutes.
HiberTec plans to build a full-scale prototype of its first home near downtown Los Angeles, enabling potential buyers to witness first-hand the capabilities and uniqueness of its product. In Year 1, the company projects to generate $240,000 in revenue, followed by $3.8 million in revenue in Year 2. HiberTec aims to become profitable within twenty-four months.
Team Background
Holden Forrest - Founder & CEO
Holden is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the real-estate industry.
He began his career as Founder and CEO of Academy Computer, a company providing recycled computers to schools and learning labs. From there, he founded GeoGreen Biofuels, a global company that produces biodiesel for use as transportation fuel.
More recently, he was Chief Operating Officer of a Southern California-based construction company. He also was a realtor with Keller Williams of Beverly Hills for four years and a co-owner of Sandy Garcia Realty, a Los Angeles-based realtor business.
Holden studied at Rutgers University.
Dan Patneaude - Engineering Team Leader
Early in his career, Dan was an engineering technician with the Washington State Department of Transportation. From there, he joined Boeing, where he spent two years as a manufacturing engineering planner.
He then returned to Washington’s Department of Transportation as an engineering technician before going back to Boeing and spending another two years as a structural-design engineer.
More recently, Dan was a civil engineer for the city of Indio, California, and then was Public Works Director with the City of Desert Hot Springs, California. He then spent another two years with Boeing as a manufacturing engineer and later became Assistant District Bridge Inspector with the Montana Department of Transportation.
He earned an Associate’s degree in Civil-Engineering Technology from Shoreline Community College and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington.
Aaron Brumer - Lead Architect
Aaron earned a Master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard and a Master’s degree in Real-Estate Development from the University of Southern California.
As an architect, he has designed a range of residential, commercial, and retail projects in California, New York Nevada, and Washington. He’s also provide consulting services for prominent real-estate developers across the U.S. These services include financial analysis, capacity studies, and zoning reviews.