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Mike Elliston
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Director at Zomeworks Corporation per LinkedIn. Prior roles at Elliston Development Inc., Carrizo Solar Corp., and Grant Thornton LLP; MBA from the University of Chicago. Also credited (c.1980) with a drum-door passive solar house that switched to plastic barrels in 1991.
Listed as “Director – Zomeworks Corp.” on his own LinkedIn profile (per 2026-07-19 web research; the Wikipedia “Steve Baer” article names only Benjamin Rodefer’s sole ownership, not Elliston). Prior roles: Elliston Development Inc., Carrizo Solar Corp., and Grant Thornton LLP. MBA (Accounting/Finance/Statistics), University of Chicago. A Michael Elliston was a co-owner of Carrizo Solar Corp. when it bought ARCO’s Carrizo Plains PV plant in 1990 (per a 1991 UPI wire story) — consistent with the LinkedIn entry, though not independently confirmed as the same person beyond the name and industry match. LinkedIn and business-directory profiles could not be fetched directly (403/999 blocks); these details rest on search-result snippets.
Separately, the archive’s 2009 AIA passive solar slideshow credits a “Mike Elliston passive solar house” with drum doors (c. 1980), updated to plastic barrels in 1991 — the same steel-to-plastic drum upgrade Baer made to his own DrumWall around the same time. Whether this is the same Mike Elliston now listed as a Zomeworks Director is not confirmed.
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Full career timeline, how/when he joined Zomeworks, and whether the 1980s passive-solar homeowner and the current Director are the same person.