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His team are also responsible for monitoring development in the cleantech sector as a whole to identify material threats and opportunities for the wider Group. The Ventures portfolio comprises BP’s corporate venturing and carbon offsets businesses as well as the technology management function for Alternative Energy.

Mr Adams has spent the last 12 years working on innovation and investment in the cleantech sector, building bridges between energy industry incumbents, policymakers and entrepreneurial start-ups. He serves on the Board of a number of cleantech and carbon companies in the US and Europe including Mendel Biotechnology, Synthetic Genomics, South Pole Carbon Asset Management and E Stack Ltd.

Mr Adams joined BP plc. in 2003 as Director of Long Term Technology working for the Chief Scientist. He led the development of the Group's Long Term Technology Strategy laying out a strategic roadmap to 2030 and supported the initial set up of several of the businesses within Alternative Energy including Biofuels, Carbon Management and Clean Coal.

Soon he was sent to Houston Texas on a three-year assignment to investigate the offshore oil exploration technology needs and to introduce the ASEA products and systems on the worldwide market. He then became country manager for ASEA in Korea, a position he held until 1988. The Korean market for mass transit signal, power supply and propulsion systems were handled successfully penetrated.

Mr Andersson was then transferred to the Florida High Speed Rail Corporation which later was abandoned due to project finance difficulties. His further assignment went to Hong Kong, being responsible for the Asia market within ABB Daimler Benz Transportation, nowadays Bombardier. The main work was to identify realistic mass transit projects and to establish the company strategic issues in the region.

Since 1998, he has devoted his time to invent and to develop the Nowait Transit continuous mass transit system

He holds a PhD in finance and has been co-founder of www.clickandlearn.at, an Austrian e-learning start-up. Most recently he has been Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in Vienna for four years.

He has advised several top-tier private equity firms in strategic due diligences and has extensive experience in organizational and operational matters in various process industries including hot and cold rolled steel, chemicals, and pulp & paper.

Mr. Beaty also founded and currently serves as Chairman of Pan American Silver Corp., one of the worlds leading silver producers. Mr. Beaty has founded and divested a number of other public mineral resource companies since 1985.

Mr. Beaty is a past President of the Silver Institute in Washington, DC., a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada and the Canadian Institute of Mining, and a recipient of the Institute's Past President's Memorial Medal. In 2007 Mr. Beaty received the Association of Mineral Exploration of B.C.’s Colin Spence Award for excellence in global mineral exploration, in 2008 the Mining Person of the Year award from the Mining Association of B.C. and the 2008 Natural Resources & Energy Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Ernst & Young.

Mr. Beaty was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1951 and educated at the Royal School of Mines, University of London, England, M.Sc., Distinction (Mineral Exploration) 1975 and the University of British Columbia, LL.B. (Law) 1979 and B.Sc. (Honours Geology) 1974. He is married with five children. Mr. Beaty speaks English, French, and Spanish, as well as some Russian, German, and Italian. He has worked in more than 50 countries during his career.

Faisal initiated his career in the financial services industry with Alegro Capital; a London based financial advisory and M&A firm. His primary focus at Alegro Capital was mergers and acquisitions, restructuring for the European Retail, TMT and Energy sector. He worked on several key transactions which included clients such as Tengelmann Group and Belgacom.

Prior to this, Mr. Butt worked in various capacities in New York and Montreal in the financial services sector. He completed his Advance Level studies in Economics and Mathematics from University of Cambridge, UK. He graduated from McGill University, Montreal Canada with a bachelor in Finance and Economics.

Prior to that, Chaudron led investments in the sectors of IT and semiconductors. Between 2001 and 2005, he was also a board member of Siriatech and Vizelia, two start-ups pioneering cleantech in France.

Before joining AGF Private Equity, Chaudron started his career in venture capital at Europatweb, the internet investment company founded by Bernard Arnault in the late 90s.

Nicolas Chaudron is an alumnus of the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris, France) and of the Peking University (Beijing, China). He holds an MSc in mathematics, an MBA from the CDI, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Mr. Coit was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Covanta Energy Corporation for more than 12 years during which time Covanta grew to become the world's leading developer and operator of large scale waste-to-energy facilities operating 25 facilities that processed more than 30,000 tons of MSW/day.

Mr. Coit has been active in the renewable energy industry since working for the United States Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in the late 1970's and holds degrees from the University of Rochester (B.A. with distinction) and Cornell Law School (J.D., magna cum laude).

More recently, Clennell has helped to establish the Carbon Trust – TTP Incubator, which supports start-up and early-stage businesses in the low carbon sector. He has first class BA and MEng degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has completed the year long Postgraduate Course in Design, Manufacture and Management (also at Cambridge).

Prior to this, Hamish was with WaveGen, a leading UK wave power developer, where he was appointed Managing Director in 2002 following WaveGen’s restructuring to increase the company’s commercial focus.

Previous positions include General Manager within British-Borneo Oil & Gas plc, and General Manager and Asset Director for JKX Oil, a major international oil and gas exploration and production company.

A former member of the UK Government Oil & Gas Industry Task force, Hamish has wide experience of cross-border projects in addition to a consulting record that demonstrates the ability to identify and deliver measurable improvement both at board level and at “shop floor”. Hamish has delivered results ranging from major corporate M&A activity to focused strategic asset advice and analysis.

As a Director of ESD she worked on various large consultancy projects for the EU, including the work that formed the based for the EU target, which set targets to double the share of renewable energy from 6% in 1997 to 12% by 2010.
In 1997, she became a founding member of the original group that later became Good Energy Group, and part of the team that procured the electricity license for the Group to start trading renewable power in 1999.

He currently is and has been serving on the Board of Directors of various European quoted and private companies active in the fields of solar thermal, photovoltaics, biodegradable packaging, environmental advisory services, waste-to-energy, wind farm development, smart metering and membrane based separation.

Paul acquired cleantech investment experience as Managing Director at Sustainable Energy Ventures and as Senior Investment Manager of Flemish Environmental Holding Company (VMH).

He holds a Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering (University of Ghent) and a postgraduate degree in Financial Management (Vlerick Management School).

The focus of her career has been in directing various international product development and market-introduction projects while working at Daimler and Ballard Power Systems, before she co-founded FutureE in 2006. She is now one of three managing directors, responsible for operations.

Simon joined CCC in 2005 from Charterhouse a leading European private equity firm. During his sixteen years at Charterhouse Simon was involved in all forms of investment from venture to expansion capital and from small MBO's to large LBO's. Prior to that Simon worked as a Senior Engineer with Air Products Inc the US gases group. Simon has a BSc in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from Cranfield.

Prior to his assignment in Asia Pacific he was working for Erber AG in Singapore as Director Strategic R&D with global responsibility for new products and new business areas (2002-2004). From 1997-2000 he has carried out R&D in industrial biotechnology for BASF SE in Germany. From 1994-1997 he spent a postdoctoral sojourn at Hoffmann-La Roche in Basle/Switzerland working in vitamin research.

Knut Eichler studied Biochemistry at the University of Leipzig. In 1993 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute National des Sciences Appliqués in Lyon/France in the area molecular microbiology. Furthermore he obtained an MBA from INSEAD in 2001.

He currently serves as Chairman of Novacem, a CleanTech spin-out from Imperial College, London that is developing carbon negative cement; Non-Executive Director of Pursuit Dynamics; and Board Member of EEDA (the Regional Development Agency for the East of England) and East of England International.

He was previously CEO and co-founder of Plastic Logic (www.plasticlogic.com), a spin-out from Cambridge University that has raised over $200Mn to develop flexible displays for use in electronic books and newspapers.

Stuart’s early career was at IBM and McKinsey & Co; he has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and has been a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Rick is the senior portfolio manager for the Macquarie Clean Technology Fund, a $205 million fund of funds focused on global clean energy/technology opportunities. Rick serves on the advisory boards for Riverstone/Carlyle Renewable Energy Funds, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, HgCapital Renewable Power Partners, Rockport Capital, Braemar Energy, and Industry Ventures.

Mr. Fratus received his MBA from the University of Texas, Austin, a Diploma in Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College and his Bachelor of Science degree from the US Naval Academy with Merit. He is the author of the 2005 White Paper “Sustainable Investing in Private Equity”.

In addition to Coriolis, Precede founded and invested in Pythagoras Solar – a building integrated PV products developer, and Solar Power – a PV integrator and EPC. Prior to Precede, Rafi was co-founder, co-CEO, and Chairman of Chromatis Networks, a company he started in 1997 to develop optical equipment for the telecommunications market. Chromatis was sold to Lucent in May 2000 for $4.75 billion.

Prior to founding Chromatis, Rafi served as Chairman of Scorpio Communications Ltd. and President of Scorpio Communications Inc., which he founded in 1993. Scorpio was sold to US Robotics in 1996 for $72 million. Following the acquisition, Rafi developed US Robotics’ strategy in the telecom market.

Rafi also served as an associate director of the Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR) at Columbia University, where he managed telecommunications research projects. Rafi holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York, NY.

Prior achievements/experience includes:

• 6 years as Managing Director of renewable energy business, built turnover to £1.4M.

• 15 years development of commercial renewable energy projects from concept to completion – and built 18 hydro schemes during this period.

• Established and managed various companies, organising all aspects of financing, raising equity from shareholders, design and project management, and development of 10 hydroelectric schemes.

In 2004 Simon established AWS as a UK based company and lead fundraising for this new venture to commercialise leading wave-power IP. Simon has now secured over £8million of funding for the company and heads the team at the AWS base in Inverness.

Originally from Invergarry, Simon is a married with three children and in his spare time enjoys sailing, cycling, playing the bagpipes and guitar!

Before joining Dexia, Jérôme worked for 6 years in the oil and gas project finance team of Crédit Lyonnais where he was involved in originating, structuring, arranging and syndicating several large transactions in Russia. Jérôme Guillet graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Prior to founding Mountain Cleantech AG in 2007, Jürgen worked for Atlas Venture's Technology Cleantech team, where he spearheaded the establishment of Atlas' Cleantech division.

Prior to joining NASDAQ, Mr. Homossany was a Senior Manager of Business Development for Shopping.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: SHOP), where he managed the business development activity of the company in the UK. During his career with Shopping.com, Mr. Homossany was responsible for the development of the strategic partnerships of the company in the UK, including the partnership with AOL UK, and for the identification of potential strategic partners for the company.

Prior to that, Mr. Homossany was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young in Israel, where he headed the Human Capital Group. He specialized in global compensation plans, relocation of employees and post merger integration.

He began his career with Klienhendler & Halevy Law Firm in Israel, where he worked from 1998-1999, on several corporate transactions and IPOs of US listed companies.

Mr. Homossany received an LL.B from the Tel Aviv University in 1998, and an M.B.A. from London Business School in 2004.

Mr. Holsen joined Statkraft in 2001 as a financial director in Statkraft’s Dutch subsidiary, and he has later headed various expansion initiatives within hydro power development, gas power development and wind power positioning Statkraft in new markets. 

Bjørn N Holsen holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Economics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has previous experience from Statoil’s field development and construction department and as a financial director in Naturkraft AS.

During these years he worked on a variety of transactions involving companies such as Ionics, US Filter, Fuel-Tech NV, Thermo Electron and Culligan Water.

Whilst at PaineWebber in the 1990s he started and ran the PW Annual European Environmental Service Companies Conference. Latterly, he worked for 5 years at Matrix Corporate Finance as an adviser to a variety of privately held companies including those in the Solar PV, Renewable Forestry and Mass Transportation industries.

Previously, Paul worked in the Innovation Programme at the Carbon Trust, developing new low carbon technologies. His primary focus was to set‐up and run the Marine Energy Challenge programme, to assess marine energy technologies and establish the future growth potential for wave energy. Prior to the Carbon Trust, Paul was at Rolls‐ Royce where he initially worked in Transmission and Distribution in the UK and then for Rolls‐Royce International in Thailand carrying out business development activities. Paul then joined Rolls‐Royce Power Ventures as Development Manager focusing on project development of 5MW to 150MW gas turbine and diesel engine power projects in the UK and Americas.

Paul graduated from Newcastle University in 1996 with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering (Europe), with Spanish as chosen language. In 2002 he completed an MBA at INSEAD, Paris.

 

Mr. Lavelle co-heads the firm’s Industrials Group, which comprises the metals, mining, transportation, chemicals, plastics and packaging, industrial technologies, environmental and industrial services and other related sectors. The bulk of his career has been focused on the industrial technologies and environmental and industrial services sectors.

Mr. Lavelle came to Houlihan Lokey from The Nassau Group, a corporate strategy and M&A advisory firm that he founded and successfully managed for more than 12 years. His clients include numerous North American, European and Asian public and private companies, ranging from emerging growth-oriented businesses to established middle-market leaders to multibillion-dollar global enterprises. His assignments have ranged from integrated strategic advisory and/or proactive buyside mandates for large, strategic acquirers, to financial restructurings for financial sponsors, to exclusive sellside projects. He has also managed several private placements.

Before establishing Nassau, Mr. Lavelle spent five years at Baring Brothers & Co. in New York and London. Earlier, he was at Booz Allen & Hamilton, where his fields of expertise were international M&A advice and business strategy development.

Mr. Lavelle graduated cum laude with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is registered with FINRA (formerly the NASD) as a General Securities Principal (Series 7, 24 and 63).

Harvey has experience in dealing with both leading suppliers and customers in the consumer electronics, automotive and industrial markets.

She started her career as a research scientist for GEC Marconi. Hazel is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.

He has over nine years experience in the finance industry in the UK, Ireland and South Africa, advising a diverse range of public and private companies through his own consultancy company and prior to that as a manager with Strand Partners Limited, a specialised corporate finance advisory and investment firm. Julian is currently a non executive director of Bidtimes plc, a natural resources investment company, which is quoted on AIM.

Jacques attended the University of Lausanne, Switzerland studying economics from 1976-1979. When talking about his goals with Plastinum he clearly states that we aim to contribute to a world where plastic is recycled and the “disposal” stage is eliminated. “It is the ambition of Plastinum to become the reference in mixed-plastic waste processing solutions by creating new polymers from a variety of waste streams.”

Tom joined HgCapital in 2004 and has more than 15 years' experience in providing equity finance to the US and European conventional and renewable power sectors. He was formerly with EIF Group, established in 1987 by John Hancock as the first private equity fund manager for renewable and conventional power generation. Previously he was general counsel of Alternative Energy / Beaverwood Power, a biomass power developer and operator.

Tom is active in both the energy and institutional investor sectors. He is the Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association Committee on Sustainable Energy, Environment and Technologies and is a frequent speaker at renewable energy conferences. He was recently named by Dow Jones “Wealth Bulletin” as one of 40 people providing financial and thought leadership to the European renewable and clean-tech sector.

He has degrees from Northwestern University and Fordham University School of Law.

Among other initiatives, he has designed and partially implemented Gamesa’s entry strategy into several European and Asian markets.

Prior to joining Gamesa, Pablo worked in Spain as a consultant in the Strategy Division of Accenture where he belonged to the Capital Goods practice. During that period, numerous projects with Spanish Construction Conglomerates seeking international expansion and/or diversification into Renewable Energies were implemented.

He holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering (ICAI, University of Comillas) and a postgraduate degree in Business Administration (IESE Business School).

Prior to joining NTR Rory served as Director, Strategic Planning, Elan Corporation plc where he had a key role in Elan’s $4.5bn debt structuring program in addition to a number of other strategic and corporate finance initiatives. Previously Rory was a member of the Merger, Acquisitions and Restructuring Department in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley International in London.

Rory has studied at Harvard Business School (AMP), and holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Comm. (Intl.) from University College Dublin.

Rudolf joined Siemens Venture Capital from Infineon Technologies AG where he was part of the management of a $700 million division. He established the ‘Identification' business unit, focusing on security electronics (e.g. ePassports) and RFID technologies, and was able to grow the business from $5 million to $260 million annual revenue and profitability.

Prior to that, Rudolf was a founding team member and Managing Director of Infineon Ventures, Infineon's venture capital arm. He held various board and board observer roles. His investment track record includes Formfactor (NASDAQ: FORM), Saifun (acquired by Spansion), LightLogic (acquired by Intel) and Broadbus (acquired by Motorola). Previously, he gained consulting experience with McKinsey & Co. in Munich and with the Mitchell Madison Group in London, UK.

Rudolf received a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a Master's in Strategic Management from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, France. He also studied economics at the University of Oxford, UK.

Rory has studied at Harvard Business School (AMP), and holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Comm. (Intl.) from University College Dublin.

Megan also developed a comprehensive understanding of Government incentive structures for renewable energy technologies by completing the 2005-6 Review of the Renewables Obligation.

Megan started her career as an investment analyst for the Ethical Investment Research Service Ltd (EIRIS).

Megan has an MSc in Development Finance from the Centre for Financial and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and an MA (hons.) from Cambridge University.

He is also the Editor of “Investment Opportunities for a Low Carbon World” published in June 09.

Will is a board member of EUROSIF, the Responsible Investment Academy of Australia, and UKSiF’s Sustainable Pensions Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project Steering Committee, and in September 2009 was appointed as an Honorary Special Lecturer at Nottingham University Business School UK.

Prior to taking up his current post, Will founded CRG Advisory Services, a private consultancy practice advising a range of clients, companies and investors on Corporate Responsibility practices as well as contributing to the development of the global responsible investment market. Prior to establishing his consultancy practice, Will was a Director at FTSE Group, responsible for its global strategy and marketing programmes. While at FTSE, Will worked on a range of projects that underpinned the success and expansion of the Group, including establishing FTSE Americas, the company’s first overseas business operation. Before his New York appointment, Will served as Director of global sales based in London.

Earlier in his career, he worked in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Indices Unit, where he was Head of Commercial Management. Before this, Will also spent five years in the derivatives industry, specialising in the marketing and promotion of traded options while working with the LSE’s subsidiary, the London Traded Options Market.

Prior to joining the Exchange, Elizabeth worked in the European venture capital and private equity industry for five years, with Dow Jones. She holds a BA Honours degree in International Relations from UCLA, and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics.

 

Immediately prior to CleanWorldCapital, Mr. Regnarsson acted as investor, advisor and non-executive board member to early-stage ICT ventures, renewable energy and healthcare businesses in Denmark and the UK. He is an investor and partner in Danish early-stage ICT VC-fund, Capital+. Mr. Regnarsson is chairman of the Board of Directors of Danish medical equipment company, Rosco A/S and a non-executive director of UK investment firm, Environmental Investments Ltd. ("En-Vest").

From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Regnarsson was SVP and Assistant General Manager of Danske Bank, London, where he formed and led Client Solutions Group, a corporate finance and capital markets advisory business.

From 1994 to 2003, Mr. Regnarsson spent several years as a VP and Director of investment banking and debt capital markets at Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Moody's Investors Service and Chase Manhattan Bank in London and New York. During this time, he spent significant time advising US and European industrial and infrastructure companies regarding acquisitons, project and leveraged finance, with total transaction value exceeding $30 billion.

Mr. Regnarsson is a Sloan Fellow (MSc) of London Business School.

Christian is a savvy technologist with a passion for transforming breakthrough innovations into real businesses that have the potential to improve the state of our world. He has spent most of his more than 10-year institutional and private investment career on electronics, infrastructure software and cleantech ventures, working intensively with businesses ranging from 5 to 35,000 employees. He enjoys having the privilege of working with passionate entrepreneurs who have the courage to think big.

Christian spent nine years with Apax Partners – where he was a Partner in the Tech & Telecom team – leading investments in venture, growth and buyout companies. He gained a successful track record in IPO's (e.g. Q-Cells), M&A transactions (e.g. Systemonic, Ciao) and bond financings (e.g. NXP Semiconductors).

Prior to Apax, Christian was as a senior engagement manager with McKinsey. Being tightly involved in the New Venture and Innovation practices, he worked with clients in the electronics, digitial media, telecom and medtech industries for more than four years.

Christian earned a PhD in physics from the University of Vienna. He is fanatically interested in a broad range of scientific fields, ranging from theoretical physics to cognitive robotics to complex dynamical systems.

Till 2007, Andreas has been responsible for securing external funding for research programs and establishing strategic partnerships of GE Global Research Europe. Before joining GE in 2005 he worked as project manager within the aerospace industry for 5 years at a leading German mid-size company, EADS and with the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company. Andreas holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

Ken's coverage of energy efficiency, carbon markets and vehicle/transport sub-sectors complements Nomura Code's existing renewables and fuel cell coverage. Ken graduated in Natural Sciences from Trinity, Cambridge and had held roles as a fund manager and buy-side analyst at Scottish Amicable and as a sell-side global building materials analyst at UBS and Merrill Lynch. Repenting his emissions-intensive ways, Ken undertook a masters in Environmental Management at Cranfield in 2006/7 and is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.

Adrian has focussed on the Renewable Energy sector over the past 7 years. He is an experienced transaction advisor, having been involved in transactions with a market value of more than €1b.

Mr von Schubert is a member of the supervisory board of Triton Water AG, a German water technology company, he is also a board member of Nanotron Technologies, an energy efficiency company and is an observer on the board of Sulfurcell Solartechnik, Europe’s leading solar thin film company. Mr von Schubert has been a board member of the The CarbonNeutral Company since 2000 and is Chairman of Zooplus AG, an internet retailer listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Prior to founding zouk, Mr von Schubert spent several years with JPMorgan’s oil and gas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity teams. He was involved in large cross-border M&A transactions in the oil and gas sector as well as several private equity transactions in the telecom and technology area. He previously held a research position with the French Ministry of Finance, where he focused on European deregulation. He also worked for the German Chamber of Commerce in Russia, advising German corporations.

Mr von Schubert holds a M.A. in Economics and Political Sciences from the University of Cologne, Germany and a CEP from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and is a regular guest speaker at Insead’s MBA programme.

Prior to joining ICV, Glen was a partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), one of Israel’s largest venture capital funds, where he led and co-led 15 investments, focusing on communications component and semiconductor companies. He helped establish JVP Studio, a seed stage incubator investment vehicle that is today home to exceptional seed stage companies focusing on software and media. Glen was also responsible for setting up JVP's New York office where he was based from 2000-2002.

Glen holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Prior to that, Charles and Frederic have spent 12 years at Alstom Power, one the world leaders of power generation equipment. Between 1996 and 2008, Charles has occupied different engineering positions at Alstom Power, and has eventually focused on supply chain management. His last position at Alstom Power was turbine factory manager (Belfort, France).

In addition to driving marketing and sales growth, Dan served as Matrix's CFO from 1999 - 2004. After Matrix was acquired by SanDisk Corporation, Dan served as vice president of OTP and consumable memory at SanDisk and subsequently as entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital.

Prior to Matrix, Dan was an early entrant into business-to-business Internet services as business unit manager at pcOrder.com. Earlier, Dan held a series of marketing positions at Intel focused on mobile computing and advanced consumer electronics. Dan began his career at Citibank.

Dan received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an AB Computer Science from Harvard University.

He continued his career in Semiconductor Industry, working 9 years for Micronas/Germany in different positions in engineering and later as wafer fab manager. During this period he was responsible for construction and qualification of an 8-inch waferfab in Freiburg/Germany. Subsequently he joined Philips Semiconductors and later NXP as operations manager of the 8-inch waferfab in Boeblingen/Germany, where he spent 5 years. He joined Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH, Berlin/Germany in May 2007 as COO and General Manager, responsible for scaling up the pilot line operations to mass production volumes.

Sean is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with an Engineering degree from Cambridge University. Prior to joining Green Biologics he was from 2005 Chief Executive of Biofuels Corporation Trading Limited, which operates one of Europe's largest biodiesel plants, and where he remains Non-Executive Chairman. Previously Sean worked for BG Group plc for 14 years in a variety of roles spanning operations, business development and strategy, most recently as Executive Vice President with responsibility for Corporate Development and New Businesses. He is Chairman of Tidal Generation Limited which is developing tidal stream turbines and a trustee of Practical Action, an international development charity.

Prior to joining Emerald, Charles held the position of Vice President with ABB Equity Ventures, one of the world’s leading engineering companies, responsible for the development of large renewable energy projects in Europe. Previous to ABB, Charles led the business development activities of the cogeneration business of National Power PLC, a large UK electric utility, and has ten years of power utility experience, both engineering and commerce in the fields of renewable energy and thermal energy plants. He currently serves on the Boards of Emergya Wind Technologies, Senscient and River Basin Energy. In addition, Charles spearheads the European Energy Venture Fair, the preeminent European cleantech investor conference. Charles graduated with a Bachelor degree with Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College.

He has a long association with the CleanTech sector both as an investor and an entrepreneur. He founded a solar cell manufacturer, QuantaSol, which he set up to license and exploit technology developed at Imperial College and is the chairman. The company was listed as a Guardian “CleanTech 100” in 2008 and this year was a winner of the “Red Herring 100”. Paul is also a director of another university spin out, Si-Light Technologies Limited, which is developing a silicon laser. Paul has a background in venture capital and was a Director of 3i plc and a Managing Director of 3i’s activities in Japan. He has a Degree in Production Engineering from Strathclyde University and a Diploma in Japanese and Business Studies.

She has been involved with over 25 corporate finance transactions in many regions including Canada, US, Western and Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa  and the Middle East. Olga was recently with Citigroup Investment Banking, and previously worked with Simmons & Co Intl., an energy-focused investment bank, Intel Capital, Bank of Montreal, Anderson Group Inc. (PE) and Wasserstein Perella. She set on investment committees and held board observer positions and has also co-founded and sold two businesses .  Olga obtained her Masters in Finance from London Business School, UK, an MBA from SchulichSchool of Business (Full Merit-based Scholar), Canada; and Masters in Physics and Mathematics with Honors from Moscow State University. She holds a PhD in Applied Physics, and was a visiting scholar at MIT.

At ntl Shai was Managing Director of Consumer Products, responsible for the development and delivery of internet, telephone and TV for the consumer and also the Integration Director for the merger between ntl and Telewest. Shai’s other positions with ntl include Director of Operations for the ntl Group where he was responsible for major operations and business development projects.

Prior to ntl, Shai established the European office of Jerusalem Venture Partners and was a member of Morgan Stanley's hi-tech mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance teams. Shai serves on the Board of several portfolio companies, including Odersun, a thin film solar company based in Berlin; Metrolight, an energy efficient lighting solutions company based in Tennessee; Greenroad, a driver safety and fuel efficiency company based in California and Gevo a next generation bio-fuels company based in Colorado. Shai serves on the board of Virgin Unite, the not-for-profit foundation of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Shai has an MBA from Columbia University in New York.

He was responsible for designing new structures for the company’s evolving requirements, negotiated facilities in the banking and investor communities and diversified funding sources particularly for the critical area of non-government contracts. His responsibilities covered all markets in which Airtricity was active, including Europe, Offshore, the US and China.

Fintan qualified with a Commerce degree from University College Dublin in 1978, he is a Fellow of the Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA) and in 1996 got an MBS in Finance from UCD’s Smurfit School. Before joining Airtricity, Fintan was Chief Accountant and later Finance Manager with Prudential’s business in Ireland and was with Ernst & Young Consulting for three years, specialising in the area of financial management and modelling in Financial Services.

Mr. Zuklie has represented numerous venture capital clients, including Accel Partners; Benchmark Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Mohr, Davidow Ventures; U.S. Venture Partners; and Sequoia Capital. Mr. Zuklie has also represented investment banks such as Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Zuklie was one of the authors of the National Venture Capital Association's model venture capital financing forms.

Before joining Orrick, Mr. Zuklie was a director at Venture Law Group.