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Abe Schneider, ex-chair and prexy of Columbia Pictures, died in Palm Springs, Fla., Wednesday of pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease complications. He would have have been 88 Sunday.
Aug 1, 2023 · Location: San Francisco, California, United States · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Abe Schneider’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
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The Schneider siblings both earned engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology around the turn of the 21st century. Afterwards, they took different career paths—Gia worked in finance and energy, and Abe was a mechanical engineer—but they came together in 2009 to found Natel, with their late father, with the aim of creating hy...
In order to be less hazardous to aquatic life, Natel’s fish-safe hydropower turbines have thicker, more steeply slanted blades than normal hydropower turbines. The blunt edges of the blades deflect fish, while their slope reduces the likelihood of a direct impact. Natel says its unique blade design has a greater than 99% fish survival rate. Gia say...
When the siblings started Natel, they were laser focused on how to make hydropower better for rivers. At the same time, they knew that “nobody on the finance or the energy side is going to want to sacrifice efficiency or cost,” she says. “What we inserted into that equation is that we also wanted it to be fish-safe, and river-connecting, and we wer...
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Abe Schneider is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Natel Energy, driving the company's commitment to the conviction that hydropower production can co-exist with biodiverse, healthy rivers. Abe leads the company’s technical teams, overseeing hydraulic design and fish passage testing for Natel’s FishSafe Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT).
As teens, siblings Gia and Abe discover the positive ecological benefit beaver dams can have on river health. 2009 Gia Schneider and Abe Schneider co-found Natel Energy, supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Sep 3, 2023 · Through his mother, he met Jewish Christian evangelist Abe Schneider, a leader in the Jesus Movement that began in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In his book, he recalls meeting Schneider and telling him, “I don’t know anything about the Bible, and I’m not sure I believe any of it.”
Obsessed with water and fish since birth, Abe Schneider has carried this passion through to his work today as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Natel Energy where he is committed to his conviction that efficient renewable energy production can co-exist with biodiverse, connected rivers.
