#154 Catherine McLean, Founder of Dylan Green

Catherine developed a passion for clean energy and technology in 2011. She worked at the United Nations developing relationships with governments on public-private partnerships and subsequently took a job as a Consultant at Acre Resources, a global recruitment firm focused on energy and sustainability. Catherine founded recruitment business McLean...

#153 Rob Day, Partner and Co-Founder of Spring Lane Capital

Rob Day is the co-founder of Spring Lane Capital where he is also a partner. He has been a sustainable resources private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer, and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors....

#152 Blair Levin, Sr. Non-Resident Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Project at the Brookings Institution

Blair Levin serves as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Project at the Brookings Institution. He also is the Policy Advisor to New Street Research, an international equity research firm. Blair began his career practicing law in North Carolina.  He then served as Chief of Staff to...

#151 Chante Harris, Co-founder of Women of Color Collective in Sustainability

Chante Harris currently leads the investor network and corporate partnerships for Venture for ClimateTech, a climate tech venture studio and accelerator sourcing the best climate tech solutions across the globe. She also oversees the For ClimateTech Global Innovation Challenge and is spearheading the exploration of a thesis for a...

#150 Kathy Hannun, Co-founder & President of Dandelion Energy

Kathy Hannun is the Co-founder and President of Dandelion Energy, the largest residential geothermal company in the United States. Dandelion transitions homeowners from fossil-fueled to geothermal heating and cooling using their custom geothermal drilling suite and Dandelion Air heat pump. Before founding Dandelion, Hannun was a Rapid Evaluator at...

#149 Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow

Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit practitioner of shareholder advocacy and engagement. Since 1992, As You Sow has used shareholder power to align investments with values and compel companies to reduce material risk on issues including climate change; toxins in the food system;...

#148 Dan Schnitzer, CEO of SparkMeter

Dan Schnitzer is CEO of SparkMeter, the leading provider of smart metering systems that enable utilities to implement pre-paid billing and real-time monitoring and control on micro-grids and central grids alike. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office for Project Services in Haiti, and for the World Bank. From 2014 to...

#147 Kelly Hering, CTO & Co-Founder at Charm Industrial

Kelly Hering is the CTO and co-founder at Charm Industrial, where she leads the engineering team developing their pyrolysis and gasification systems. Prior to Charm, she led the early upper stage design at Astra, a small rocket company, and the mechanical design at Planet for their constellation of Dove...

#146 Lisa Ann Pinkerton, Founder & Chairwoman of Women In Cleantech and Sustainability

From the newsroom to the boardroom, Lisa Ann Pinkerton has used her keen analytical skills to share technology stories with the world for over a decade. She is Founder and CEO of the award-winning Technica Communications, Founder and Chairwoman of the non-profit Women In Cleantech & Sustainability, an international...

#145 Ibrahim AlHusseini, Founder & Managing Partner, FullCycle

The right technology at the right time. Ibrahim AlHusseini is an award-winning serial entrepreneur turned tech investor. He made his fortune in fiberoptics and rolled it into Cleantech in the early 2000s after witnessing the acceleration of plastic pollution in our seas and oceans. He is the founder of...

#144 Azzedine Downes, President & CEO of IFAW

Animals and people can thrive together. When Azzedine Downes became President and CEO of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in 2012, one thing was clear to him: “Talking to people who already agreed with us just isn’t enough to get real results.” As IFAW’s Executive Vice President...

#143 Steve Schmida, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Resonance

In a world of 10 billion, sustainability is going to be central to business. Steve Schmida is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Resonance, an award-winning global development and corporate sustainability consulting firm with more than 100 consultants and offices in Vermont, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Manila. Resonance...