Cleantech Group

Aleksey Matyushev

Alex Crutchfield

Alex is an Analyst at Cleantech Group and is based in Barcelona, Spain.  He focuses on emerging innovation across all cleantech sectors.​

Alex’s professional background is in journalism and policy research. Prior to Cleantech Group, Alex served as a foreign correspondent in Latin America for The Business Year and published his work in various think tanks including the Spanish Royal Institute of European Studies.​

Alex earned a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Global Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Universidad CEU San Pablo.

Andrew McGovern

Anthony DeOrsey

Anthony manages Cleantech Group’s research team, delivering critical insights on new cleantech innovation and opportunities for engagement to Cleantech Group’s clients in the industrial, investment, and policy communities. He is based in the U.S.

Anthony joined Cleantech Group in late 2019 after over 8 years of work in US-China cross-border expansion consulting and start-up venture funding roles, including 5 years living in Shanghai.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Rhode Island, a Masters in Sustainability from the Harvard Extension School, and he an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Artem Krylov

With more than 15 years of capital markets experience, Artem joined Origin in 2024 with a focus on energy transition, automotive and financial services. Throughout his career, he has advised on over 40 transactions, including over $2 billion in capital raised in the last 4 years (cross-border and domestic) via private raises, structured notes, initial public offerings, and secondary issuances. Artem has advised major corporations, privately held companies and founder-owned businesses on over 20 closed M&A transactions representing over $10 billion in value.

Artem started his capital markets career in the KPMG Transaction Services group, followed by investment banking roles with TD Securities Mergers & Acquisitions and later Financial Institutions teams. After 8 years with TD Securities, he was recruited by National Bank to help expand their Toronto-based, Diversified Industrials team. After 3 years with National Bank, Artem, along with some of his colleagues, was recruited by Stifel Canada where he focused on growing Canadian franchise following Stifel’s acquisition of GMP FirstEnergy. At Stifel, Artem focused on domestic and cross-border capital raise transactions for energy transition companies across solar, industrial and transportation sectors. He also focused on covering financial services under Stifel owned brand, KBW. His most recent transactions before joining Origin included $175 million capital raise for Canadian solar panel manufacturer, Heliene, and numerous capital raises for the EV component manufacturer, Exro Technologies.

Artem holds a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. Artem also holds a CA, CPA designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and he is a CFA charter holder.

Artem has been a Vice Chair of the Board of the East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club, Chair of Taxation committee for TD Securities Charity Auction and is an active participant in numerous cycling fundraisers for cancer research.

Benjamin T.R. Fox

Blake Harris

Buff Lopez

Chad Reese

Chad Reese is an Environmental Manager at the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the agency that manages the day-to-day operations of San Diego International Airport (SAN). He currently manages projects and policy related to the Airport Authority’s Sustainability Management Program. Chad is a credentialed LEED AP BD+C professional and a TRUE Advisor. He holds an MBA Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School, with a B.A. in Biological Anthropology from the University of California at San Diego.

Chao Yan

Chinmoy Saha

Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman is a co-founder and managing partner at Clean Energy Ventures, a leading global venture capital firm funding early-stage climate innovations. Dan has nearly three decades of energy industry experience and has been investing at the project and venture stages for most of his career, with more than $4 billion of transactions completed.

He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BS from Cornell University. Dan lives in Newton, Massachusetts and is a competitive age-group road cyclist and world-qualifying triathlete.

Emilie Mazzacurati

Emilie Mazzacurati is a climate tech entrepreneur and investor with 18 years of experience working at the intersection of climate change and capital markets. She is the co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tailwind, an innovation studio focused on accelerating innovation for climate adaptation and resilience solutions. Tailwind runs innovation challenges, advises funders, and invests in startups in climate risk, climate data, and adaptation and resilience.

Previously, Emilie was the founder and CEO of Four Twenty Seven, a climate risk analytics firm that pioneered the use of climate science in financial decisions. Four Twenty Seven was acquired by Moody’s Corporation in 2019, and Emilie took a role as Managing Director, Global Head of Climate Solutions to spearhead the integration of climate risk analytics in credit risk models. Before that, Emilie was Head of Research at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon, where she directed research and modeling on carbon markets and decarbonization.

Emilie is a Board Member of Climate Resilience for All, a gender-focused climate adaptation nonprofit dedicated to the protection of people and livelihoods from extreme heat and all its impacts, and an Advisor to the Global Adaptation and Resilience Investor group (GARI), which she helped co-found in 2016.

Emilie has published extensively and is a frequent public speaker on the impacts of climate change in financial markets, climate risks disclosure, and on adaptation opportunities. Emilie taught at the University of California, Davis Executive MBA on Business & Climate Change from 2013 to 2019. She holds a Master’s of Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a Master’s of Public Policy from UC Berkeley. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Berkeley Visionary Award and Top 100 People in Finance.

Erica Nemser

Eve Hanson

Gina Domanig

Gina Domanig is the Managing Partner of Emerald Technology Ventures, a globally recognized investor in the areas of energy, water and materials, having invested in sixty companies to date. In 2000, she founded Emerald which is one of the largest industrial technology-focused venture capital firms in Europe and North America. Gina currently serves on the boards of GeoDigital International Inc, Metgen Oy, TaKaDu Inc, and Ushr Inc.

In addition to Emerald activities, Gina serves on the board of Die Mobiliar Genossenschaft, the fourth largest insurance company in Switzerland, and u-blox AG, a global leader in wireless communications and positioning semiconductors.

Gina has over 30 years of international business experience including banking, M&A, strategic development, and venture capital. Prior to starting Emerald, she was senior vice president at Sulzer, a Swiss multinational, responsible for strategic planning and M&A. Gina holds MBA degrees from Thunderbird in Arizona and ESADE in Barcelona and is fluent in English, German and Spanish. She is based Emerald’s Zurich, Switzerland office.

Greg Fleming

Iain Evans

Ignacio Bincaz

Ingrid Fung

Jack Ellis

James Blake

James is an energy investment professional with experience executing acquisitions and project financings for infrastructure assets, with a core focus on power, renewables, and the energy transition. He currently leads project investments as a Director for the Catalyst platform at Breakthrough Energy, a company founded by Bill Gates to fund and invest in emerging climate technologies.

Before joining Breakthrough Energy, James was a member of the private equity team at LS Power, where he oversaw investments across a wide array of conventional power generation asset classes. Prior to LS Power, James was with Macquarie Capital as part of the infrastructure & energy principal investing and advisory teams. He began his career with the Project Finance group at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

James received his BA in Finance and Economics from Bentley University.

Jay Ribakove

Jay joined the Convective Capital team as a Principal in 2024. He’s focused on partnering with founders who are relentless about achieving their goals and protecting our environment from natural disasters.

Prior to Convective, Jay was an investor at Munich Re Ventures, backing companies reducing risk in climate and the built environment. He is also a girl dad, recovering software engineer, and aspiring ski instructor.

Jehan Kanga

Rux Energy is an advanced hydrogen materials company, aiming to double the volumetric efficiency and halve the cost of dispatchable hydrogen storage for heavy mobility, aviation and marine. Rux Energy has partnered with leading Australian universities and trailblazing Australian composites, mobility and aerospace integrators to accelerate the piloting of our breakthrough MOF technologies, validating performance and fast-tracking implementation, to meet our planet’s decarbonisation needs.

John Boesel

John Boesel is president and chief executive officer of CALSTART, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing clean, efficient solutions within the transportation sector, with the goal of significantly reducing air pollution, improving public health, and helping to mitigate the effects of global climate change. He assumed this position in 2001, having served as vice president of technology programs since 1993.  

Prior to joining CALSTART, Boesel worked as a commercial banker for Wells Fargo in their corporate headquarters. He also served for nearly four years as legislative aide to California Assemblyman Sam Farr, managing energy and environmental legislation.   

Boesel holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School. He serves on the UC Davis Institute for Transportation Studies Advisory Board and is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Mobile Source Technical Review Subcommittee. 

Jonathan Rowntree

Julia Chase

Justin Briggs

Dr. Justin Briggs is the co-founder and COO of Antora Energy. Antora converts low-cost, intermittent renewable electricity into a reliable, on-demand source of zero-emissions industrial heat and power. Backed by leading investors including Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital, Antora’s thermal batteries are the lowest cost, fastest, and most credible path to decarbonize industry.

Dr. Briggs holds a B.S. in physics from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University. During his Ph.D., Dr. Briggs developed next-generation renewable energy technology and conducted research on high-temperature materials for energy generation and storage applications. At Antora Energy, Dr. Briggs has played nearly every role required to build an energy storage company from the ground up, from technology to operations to policy.

Kojo Ako Asare

Kristen Frick

Lara Pierpoint

Lara is passionate about technologies that meaningfully reduce emissions and contribute to a cleaner environment. As the Managing Director for Trellis Climate at Prime, she is demonstrating systems innovation and catalytic investment approaches that will speed commercialization, deployment, and scale-up of climate change mitigation infrastructure.

Before joining Prime, as co-CEO and a founding member of Actuate, Lara built the Actuate Climate program to design interventions that get emissions-reducing technologies on the ground faster. In December of 2022, Actuate Climate and the Prime team joyfully decided to join forces, and Lara’s team and programs became Trellis Climate.

Prior to Actuate, Lara worked on energy technology innovation at Exelon. As Director of Technology Strategy for the company, she advised on energy technology trends, invested in early- and mid-stage energy storage companies, and ran Exelon’s partnership R&D program.

Before her time at Exelon, she directed the Office of Energy Supply Security in the U.S. DOE Office of Policy and Systems Analysis, where she was responsible for policy and analysis related to coal, gas, and nuclear power and energy cyber and physical security. She served as AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, focusing on nuclear power and waste issues, energy finance, and electricity storage.

She received her PhD from MIT in Engineering Systems, studying deployment of advanced technologies for nuclear waste recycling, and she holds dual masters degrees from MIT in nuclear engineering and technology policy. She completed her B.S. in physics at UCLA.

Lauren Fletcher

Lindsay Weiss

Lindsay joined Origin in 2019 bringing over 25 years of experience providing strategic and transaction advice to a diverse group of clients. Throughout his career, he has advised on more than 65 closed M&A transactions representing over $80 billion of value along with numerous strategic advisory and corporate development mandates.

Before joining Origin, Lindsay founded and managed his own M&A and corporate development advisory business, PivotalPoint Advisory Group for five years. Prior to that he led Dundee Capital Markets’ M&A Group and Agriculture practice. Lindsay also spent the first 11 years of career in CIBC’s M&A Group where he worked closely with many of Origin’s Principals for the better part of a decade

Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University (Honours).

Liz Myers

Martin Coghill

Michael Elias

Michael Elias is a Senior Equity Research Analyst at TD Cowen covering the Communications Infrastructure sector including Data Centers, Towers, and Content Delivery Networks (CDN’s) and has been a member of the Communications Infrastructure team since 2017. Prior to joining TD Cowen, Mr. Elias worked as an equity analyst at Xanthus Capital Management. Mr. Elias received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Nathalie Morin

Nick Linton

Nicole Cerulli

Nicole is an Associate, Transportation & Logistics at Cleantech Group and is based in Spain.  She focuses on emerging innovation and trends in transportation and logistics and has experience across all cleantech sectors.  ​

Nicole earned a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies and Sustainable Development from Barnard College and a Master’s in Urban Resilience Design and Management from Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.​

Parker Bovee

Renée Yarmy

Richard Youngman

Since January 2016, Richard Youngman has been CEO of San-Francisco based Cleantech Group (CTG). This followed 7 years of driving the growth of CTG’s activities outside North America, especially in Europe and Israel, and Asia, based in CTG’s office in London.

Richard has more than ten years’ experience researching cleantech innovation, venture capital markets, and start-ups across Europe and globally. He is a regular keynote speaker at major cleantech events and is the driving force behind the annual Global Cleantech 100, a list of the world’s most promising private cleantech companies.

Sasha Bukhari

Sasha is an Associate, Data & Ecosystems at Cleantech Group and is based in the UK.  She collaborates on projects to further develop Monitor’s i3 and the cleantech ecosystem.

Sasha has experience mapping ecosystem data and contributing to research projects across Cleantech Group’s key sectors.

Sasha has a B.Sc. in International Political Economy from the City University of London and has completed a dissertation project on the relationship between renewable energy and the impact that a transition away from fossil fuels will have on social landscapes. The project connects energy centralization to corporate hierarchies and power distribution.

Shely Aronov

Soheil Khiavi

Stephanie Downs

Steven Kloos

Steve Kloos is an experienced investor and company leader with a deep background in water, energy, and climate. He was previously at GE Water as Membrane Technology Leader, Advanced Technology Leader, and member of GE’s venture capital team. Steve led new investment sourcing as a Partner at True North Venture Partners, and served in two stints leading True North portfolio companies, and he is the founding board chair of Current Water and a longtime advisor to ImagineH2O.

Stwart Peña Feliz

Stwart is a former ExxonMobil process engineer and holds an MBA from MIT Sloan Business School. His skill set includes manufacturing, design, and process operating experience of large-scale units, including plastic pyrolysis operations from his time at ExxonMobil. He has scaled up technologies from the bench scale and also held leadership positions at a previous climate tech startup that went on to raise a $30M Series B round.

Sunena Gupta

Sunena is an Analyst at Cleantech Group and is based in the U.S.  She is focused on emerging innovation and trends across all cleantech sectors. ​ 

Prior to joining Cleantech Group, Sunena’s roles involved working on renewable energy projects and economic research.  

Sunena earned her Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and her Bachelor’s in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Susanna Sabbagh

Tina Tosukhowong

Tina Tosukhowong is an Investment Director at TDK Ventures where she leads the cleantech and the advanced-material investment areas.

Her background spans two decades as an operator in biotech and material industries, as well as a deep-tech investor in multiple industries. Prior to joining TDK Ventures, she led the Corporate Ventures practice at GC Ventures America, where she invested in cleantech, biotech, and advanced materials.

She currently serves on the Board of pH7 Technologies (sustainable critical metal extraction), Type One Energy (fusion), VueReal (microLED), Divirod (Climate Resiliency), and Ineratec (e-fuels).

Tina holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and a Certificate in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech. She has been recognized by the Global Corporate Venturing as Top 50 Emerging Leaders in 2021, 2023, and 2024.

Tomoaki Ichida

Tomoaki Ichida has been a Managing Executive Officer of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) since April 2023, responsible for The Americas Area. He also holds the post of president of MOL (Americas) Holdings, Inc. In addition, he established a corporate venture capital called “MOL Switch” in May, 2023, and has been leading the company as CEO in order to invest to the climate tech area by collaboration with startups.

Troy Helming

Troy Helming is a clean energy industrialist & pioneer, visionary entrepreneur, innovator, and author of The Clean Power Revolution. He has founded companies that have generated more than $35 billion in economic impact, including 2 Unicorns, and invented two technologies that have led to more than 172 clean energy patent claims.

Valery Miftakhov

Will Mitchell

Zainab Gilani

Zainab is an Associate, Energy & Power at Cleantech Group and is based in the U.S.  She is focused on emerging innovation and trends in Energy & Power and has experience across all Cleantech Group sectors. ​

Zainab has experience working on circular economy solutions including evaluating recycling challenges and reuse systems, identifying collection strategies for marine plastics, and collaborating with informal waste worker collectives. ​

Zainab earned her Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and English from Binghamton University. ​