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San Francisco, California, US

An early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change. If you're raising, we'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out through our website here: www.earthshot.vc

San Francisco, California, US

Cupertino, CA, US

Creating the world’s most powerful and energy efficient servers for transformer inference by burning the transformer architecture directly into chips.

Houston, TX, US

The lowest cost proven technology for permanent carbon dioxide removal.

Emeryville, CA, US

Soil microbiome genome analysis to optimize crop protection and fertility.

Laksevåg, Vestland, NO

Computer vision based SaaS for aquaculture, leading to higher yields and healthier fish.

Las Vegas, US

Creating the world’s most delightful all-electric rental car and ride hail experience.

Berkeley, California, US

Discovering materials critical for the electric vehicle and renewable energy revolution.

New York, US

Digitizing the lighting industry by bringing each lightbulb into the cloud.

Oakland, California, US

Dramatically reducing the cost and environmental impact of harvesting lithium.

San Francisco, US

The leading carbon management platform for consumer brands.

Truckee, CA, US

Creating the operating system for reducing wildfire risk and improving forestry planning.

Mountain View, CA, US

Accelerating the battery R&D lifecycle through machine learning.

Honolulu, HI, US

(it was Earthshot)

Honolulu, HI, US

Elemental Excelerator is on a mission to redesign the systems at the root of climate change. In 2009, the non-profit launched a new model for funding climate tech deployment. Breaking down barriers to innovation alongside entrepreneurs provides Elemental unique insight into the policy, market, and technology innovation needed to build systems to uplift.

San Francisco, California, US

AMS uses advanced energy storage, load control technologies and state-of-the-art data analytics to design, build, and operate customized fleets of energy storage for large commercial and industrial users and utilities.It was a small team so I got to work on projects across the finance function. The first big lift was helping to raise $200M in project.

Columbus, Indiana, US

Worked on Cummins Power Generation's venture investment and BD arm, with a focus on helping Cummins transition into the future of distributed energy resources. Responsibilities included analyzing markets, financials, business models, deal structures, and competition pertaining to prospective partnerships and investments.

• Performed due diligence including founder interviews, market research, and business model analysis on CPV's $3M Series A investment in T-REX
• Wrote "The Next Wave of Greentech Investing Is Already Here;" published in Greentech Media

• Screened and performed due diligence on dozens of startups seeking funding
• Led due diligence, wrote investment memos, and successfully pitched investment committee on two startups, both resulting in $50,000 investments

SAN Francisco, CA, US

• Performed a unit cost comparison between Sunrun and its closest competitor andpresented findings to company's Co-CEOs
• Facilitated a benchmarking study comparing Sunrun's customer servicing costs to similar companies, leading to prioritization of cost reductions
• Collaborated with sales unit heads to forecast the companyʹs salesforce size andstructure for 5 years, giving the VP of Sales insight into budget and hiring needs
• Executed budget versus actual spending analysis and presented results to department heads, enabling monthly analysis for the first time

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• Conducted build, borrow, or buy analysis for a new electric vehicle based business unit; recommended partnership with an emerging smart grid technology company

• Identified, negotiated, and signed Everyonesolar's first four partnerships with lead generators, enabling company to begin contacting customers
• Built scalable marketing infrastructure using free CRM system and HTML email campaign providers, growing the number of leads reached from 5 to 40 per month
• Researched market size, competitive landscape, value chain, pricing, and customer acquisition strategy; findings used in marketing materials and over 50 investor pitches
• Interviewed prospective customers, using customer feedback to fine tune the company's sales pitch

Washington, DC, US

• Managed the Bank’s greenhouse gas inventory, enabling appropriate carbon offset purchases and setting a baseline for emissions reductions
• Organized and executed a competition to reduce the Bank's GHG emissions, providing three winners with $10,000 grants to implement their plans
• Led assessments of Bank procurements and employee commuting habits, helping the Bank achieve LEED Gold certification
• Developed consensus among diverse constituencies throughout the Bank to create a carbon offset strategy, resulting in purchases of $250,000/ year

San Francisco, CA, US

• Found startups seeking funding through business plans, regulatory filings, and media for the Cleantech Group's database, increasing entries from 15 to 35 per week
• Researched companies interested in sourcing cleantech innovation, providing a pipeline of dozens of prospects to the advisory services unit

Lynchburg, Virginia, US

• Authored Go Green and Save Money: Federal Tax Incentives for SMEs, available on SSC’s website

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Investigated strategies to overcome barriers to community-scale renewable energy development for use in a Congressional briefing
• Reported on current environmental legislation by attending relevant policy discussions and Congressional briefings

Grand Rapids, MI, US

• Performed scholarly literature review and wrote research memos for Political Science Professor Joel Westra concerning findings related to multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy
• The resulting chapter was published in 2009 in 'The United States and Europe in a Changing World,' edited by Dr. Roger E. Kanet

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts With Honors, Economics And Sustainable Development