My career and expertise include incubating startup and early stage companies; working with entrepreneurs as they built, funded, and grew their businesses; championing innovation-led regional economic development; building and sustaining cross-sector collaborative partnerships; shaping strategic direction and growth strategies; and engaging with public policy at the state and federal levels. Since 2015, I've increasingly done the above with an exclusive focus on the clean tech sector, based on my convictions both that the climate crisis must be our collective top priority and also that private-sector-led innovation and action is an indispensable component of the solutions and changes we need. Immediately prior to co-founding Seabright, I was Senior Vice President, Market Transformation at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), the highly-respected organization building an inclusive green economy in the LA region; previous to that, in various roles, including Interim CEO, at Valley Vision in Sacramento, I spearheaded that organization’s growing emphasis on the clean economy. As the Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance’s (SARTA) longest-serving CEO, I managed its CleanStart program working with clean tech entrepreneurs, and also helped launch the UC Davis tech transfer office’s entrepreneur support services via the long-ago UC Davis CONNECT. I’ve been California-based for 20+ years, and earlier in my career worked from posts including Toronto, New York, London, and Stockholm. My undergraduate degree in English is from Cornell University, and my MBA is from the University of San Francisco.