California Clean Innovation Conference 2010

CACI 2009 Fast Pitch Judge

David joined the Greentech investing team at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in May 2006. Responsibilities include knowledge mapping and opportunity sourcing across the entire landscape of Green technologies. Building relationships with scientists and entrepreneurs throughout the US and Europe, David has helped bring many ventures through the KP investment process including due diligence, investment structuring, goal setting, and team building. Beginning with a collaboration with KP partner Bill Joy in 2004, David has built a detailed and diverse base of Greentech knowledge across multiple energy technologies and scientific disciplines, together with a matching knowledge base of resources, markets and incumbents. Every aspect of energy, planetary resources, and emissions has been studied in detail and mapped to target recognition of disruptive order-of-magnitude and tipping-point innovations. David’s background includes ten years of technical experience in marine and shipboard engineering, and eight years building and selling a nation-wide business.