Wharton Climate Investing Roundtables in Energy AI, Blue Economy & Built Environment
Wednesday, July 31,2024
Register Online
Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Time: 9am PDT / 12noon EST / 5pm UK time
Location: This is a virtual panel. Zoom details will be sent out to RSVP'd guests upon registration.
12noon: Featured Speaker
Robin Castelli - Partner & Head of Transition Finance Investments, Orange Ridge Capital
12:10pm: Panels in preparation for Climate Investing Breakout Sessions
Catherine Jadot - CEO, Elemental Solutions
Wayne Hao| LinkedIn - VP of Corporate Development, Nano Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ)
Mark Crawford - Head of Caterpillar Ventures
Joyeeta Das - Co-Founder, SamudraOceans
John White | LinkedIn - Managing Director (EMEA), RiskThinking.AI
Lisa Lambie - Managing Partner & Chief Impact Officer, Maroon Venture Fund I LP
12:45pm: Climate Investing Roundtables / Breakout Sessions
Energy & Built Environment
Blue Economy
Artificial Intelligence across Built Environment & Blue Economy
1:25pm: Roundtable Wrapup & Facilitation for continued networking
ABOUT OUR HOSTS:
Managing Partner & Chief Impact Officer of Maroon Venture Fund I LP (Affiliate of Maroon Invest Global)
Lisa Lambie is Managing Partner & Chief Impact Officer of Maroon Venture Fund I LP (affiliate of Maroon Invest Global), which is a highly differentiated US-based emerging fund manager investing anchor capital in innovative early-stage ventures (Pre-Seed to Series A) to accelerate innovation and close material funding gaps addressing chronic Population Health and Climate conditions (impacting Population Health) traditionally under-invested in. Climate priority areas are in Blue Economy, Built Environment (material innovation, health infrastructure), and leveraging Artificial Intelligence to accelerate impact and efficiency of Climate solutions.
Fund team has deep expertise and a proven investment track record (in Climate investments) as institutional LPs and successful venture builders, who have scaled and exited both ventures and funds in Maroon’s target Health and Climate sectors while astutely managing portfolio risk. Team track record collectively reflects significant AUM, multiple fund exits, venture exits, IPOs; and demonstrates the potential ability to deliver attractive returns in conjunction with tangible impact.
VP of Corporate Development, NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE)
Wharton SoCal Head of Events
Co-Director of the Wharton Environment and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Wayne Hao (WG11) is currently the Vice President of Corporate Development for NANO Nuclear Energy, a NASDAQ-listed clean energy technology company that focuses on nuclear microreactors with additional vertically integrated business lines in the nuclear supply chain.
In past roles, Mr. Hao has held leadership positions in successful entrepreneurial ventures including helping build and sell two early-stage startups with successful exits of over $150M in exit value and serving as an investment analyst for an $800M venture investment firm.
Mr. Hao holds an MBA from The Wharton Business School and a BS from Washington University in St. Louis.
Co-Director of the Wharton Environment and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Amy Richard Butte (WG03) has a career in delivering solutions for sustainability. Her experience includes product development, marketing and sales, commodity pricing and structuring, and project development.
At Constellation Energy, she launched successful renewable energy, onsite solar, and load management products representing hundreds of megawatts of power. As a consultant, she has worked with Pacific Gas and Electric, EPRI, PARC, Viridity Energy (now Ormat), EnerVault, the City of Santa Monica, and other clean tech startups and nonprofit organizations. Amy performs regulatory analysis and has worked as an advocate for equitable climate action. Amy earned her MBA in Operations and Finance from Wharton and a BA from Stanford.
