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Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI) is North America’s top peer group community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech.With confidential group meetings, annual retreats, guest speakers, and 1:1 strategy coaching calls, our members help each other boost revenue, impact, capital raised, clarity, confidence, work-life balance, and team effectiveness. Today’s members are creating billions of dollars of market value and millions of tons of greenhouse gas reduction. As of late 2024, we’re growing to a community of 90+ EFI Climate CEO Fellows, Alumni Advisors, and Investor Mentors representing over $30B of market value or AUM for climate solutions. Climate CEO Peer Groups— https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.comPodcast (climate CEO and investor interviews)— 200+ episodes— Apple Podcasts = https://apple.co/33Esgmt— Spotify = https://spoti.fi/3noGgYfNewsletter (climate tech and conscious leadership)— The "shortest newsletter in climate tech"— 170+ issues— https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com

Durham, Nc, Us

I teach daytime MBA and executive MBA students. Classes include Energy Finance and Management Consulting (with an energy and environment focus).

Hermosa Beach, California, Us

For profit, impact enterprise focused on climate solutions, biodiversity, and farmers' livelihood, with 500,000 trees planted in 5 countries, using the world's fastest growing tree, and sequestering 500,000 tons of GHG per year.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

DG Matrix is enabling gigaton-level GHG emissions reduction through clean, distributed energy and vehicle electrification. DG Matrix produces the next-generation of modular, reliable, and adaptable power electronics that will resolve the size and speed requirements for fast DC electric-vehicle charging, micro-and nano-grids, and edge data centers.Power electronics are the “pick and shovel” required for the electrification of transportation and a decarbonized, decentralized, and resilient power grid. With unmatched up to 10:1 size reduction, dynamic renewable energy integration, and high efficiency, DG Matrix will serve an aggregate market opportunity that conservatively exceeds $40B per year.

Boulder, Co, Us

An anti-GHG 501(c)(3): We pool tax-deductible donations from climate-conscious people, family offices, and foundations to make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal. We use research from leading climate organizations like Frontier and CarbonPlan and evaluate potential recipients against strict criteria to ensure donations drive real impact on the planet. Early donors include Tim Ferriss and Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen. Our current project portfolio includes companies like Heirloom and Charm, and we’re actively researching more projects to support. Know some? Get in touch!

New York, Ny, Us

Founded in 2014, Javelin Capital partners with market-leading developers, investors, asset managers, and corporations to identify, structure, and raise capital for both asset-based and corporate finance objectives in the low-carbon economy.• Strategic & Capital Advisory• Buy-Side & Sell-Side Advisory• Mergers & Acquisitions• Merchant Bankingwww.jav-cap.com

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Us

I serve as faculty with the Center for Sustainable Enterprise. I teach daytime MBA students. Courses have included Green Building and Development; Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Certification; and the Sustainability Leadership Immersion capstone course, which takes 15 second-year MBA students to Ethiopia and India for a two-week immersion experience and social entrepreneurship consulting engagements.

Durham, Nc, Us

I teach graduate and executive education students. Classes include ESG Investing, Cleantech (Climate Tech) Startups and Investors, Green Real Estate Development, Clean Energy in Emerging Markets, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Certification. I also teach a Coursera course via Duke called Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship, with 1,700+ ratings at 4.7 out of 5.0 stars, and course completion rates 700% higher than the industry average.

With about 30% of humanity lacking reliable electricity and even more without clean fuels and technologies for cooking, energy access represents one of the greatest challenges of our time.The Energy Access Project at Duke University takes an interdisciplinary approach to developing sustainable, modern energy solutions around the world. Established in 2017, the project supports foundational research and fosters constructive dialogue among the world’s policy makers, entrepreneurs, and scholars to identify ways of applying that research. It engages students, locally and globally, in finding innovative approaches to accelerate clean energy deployment in emerging markets. It’s supporting the development of new, disruptive tools, such as the means to evaluate electricity access through machine learning techniques applied to aerial imagery data.

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Strategic advisory for renewable energy projects and climate tech ventures— Private equity experience + PhD rigor to scale world-changing companies— http://ironoakenergy.capital

Antlia’s mission is to build the world’s first green hydrogen credit network. The network, backed by an auditable green hydrogen supply chain, enables opportunities to scale green hydrogen projects in a cost effective way.

San Francisco, California, Us

On Deck Climate Tech (ODCT) is a continuous community for people to come together to build, join, or support revolutionary climate tech startups. It brings together 150 startup and climate experts and helps them navigate the complex regulatory, funding and technical landscapes through a community of incredible peers. ODCT Fellows explore ideas, meet collaborators, and start, grow, and support companies in the climate tech space. On Deck has already launched over 330+ companies that have raised over $250m. We are focusing on climate to create serendipity for truly innovative and scalable climate tech solutions. Ultimately, the Fellowship's goal is to accelerate the speed at which talented people can contribute to the climate tech space through community, content, and structure you’ll need for the next 70+ years of climate innovation.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Serve as an Advisor to TreeHouse, a new business aimed at becoming the premier retailer and e-commerce provider of environmentally conscious home improvement products and services. www.treehouseonline.com

Durham, North Carolina, Us

I taught courses and workshops on green building and development in the Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) executive master's program in the Nicholas School of the Environment. In this capacity, serve as expert peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Environmental Management, the Journal of Green Building, and Building and Environment.

As a clean energy market research firm, we provided subscription services and custom research in the solar, energy storage, and electric vehicles sectors. Created by practitioners with PhD rigor, we supported data-driven investment decisions and business strategy with trend analysis, news curation, team collaboration software, and custom analysis in the financial, legal, business, and policy aspects of clean energy. We were a division of IronOak Energy, a clean energy finance and advisory firm that supported investors and executives with teams in the US, UK, Japan, and Singapore, and 300 years of combined experience.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Provided expertise re: innovation and sustainability to support strategic relationships and new ventures. Co-manage the Cherokee-McDonough Challenged, competition and accelerator program for high impact environmental startups. (Cherokee is an environmentally focused investment company that has raised over $2 billion in private equity funds and, separately, founded a number of environmental businesses and invested in over 80 startups and venture funds in the past 29 years.)

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Analyzed, distilled and communicated data, trends and strategy related to macroeconomics, real estate markets, alternative energy, green building and development, as well as new opportunities and consumer demand. Generated and managed processes and strategies in the realms of innovation and sustainability, including new opportunities in clean energy, green development and international non-profit work. Managed Cherokee Renewables, a solar project finance platform.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Advised and managed teams and projects related to green building and development, alternative energy, strategic planning and relationships and new opportunities. Co-created Cherokee Sustainability Guidelines, which were created to guide $20 billion in real estate redevelopment towards sustainability goals. Helped lead corporate sustainability initiatives, partnerships and reporting.

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Investigated alternative building products, energy systems and green building strategies for incorporation at UNC Chapel Hill facilities. Reviewed and revised the university design guidelines. Led student teams to support a local developer designing and building a restaurant to LEED standards. Taught a laboratory class on global climate change using a STELLA model to understand possible solutions via changes in land use, energy and behavior.

Investigated models and methods for communicating the financial benefits of solar energy to stakeholders and potential users. Created a database of (1) biomimicry applications in the built environment and (2) green building products harvested, manufactured or distributed in North Carolina.

Developed teaching materials and taught over 5,000 students from elementary school through junior high school in one of Japan's most environmentally progressive towns. Served as translator, host and guide for foreign visitors. Traveled over 80,000 miles in eight countries and brought highlights and lessons learned to classrooms, newspapers and community events.

Ms, Phd, Sustainable Business, Green Building, City And Regional Planning, Environmental Science

B.S., Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, Spanish