Project Highlights:

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems (www.cfs.energy) will solve the climate crisis by commercializing clean, limitless fusion energy - a solution at the scale of the problem
• Raised $1.8 billion in Series B funding in 12 weeks alongside the CEO
• Advised the company since day one and helped define company values (Execution / Self-Critique / Integrity / Impact) to guide every strategy and decision (ex: hiring, communications, partnerships, fundraising)
• Helped launch the Fusion Industry Association to build the nascent ecosystem, which has attracted $4+ billion in private capital
• Educated policymakers about public-private partnerships, which led to two new multi-million-dollar partnerships

Project Highlights:

• Responsible Innovation Labs equips startup founders and investors to build and win with responsible innovation.
• Raised $1.8 million in Series B funding for a startup
• Scaled the organization, raised capital, and shaped organizational strategy
  • Raised $1.85M raised from marquee foundations and HNWI
  • Executed intimate dinners with high-profile leaders and startup founders, Responsible AI launch with leading VCs and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo, AI policy roundtable with 18 VCs and LPs representing $600B+ AUM, RIL's first Founders Summit with 500 global tech leaders in 20+ countries
  • Led multi-sector working group of industry stakeholders, civil society, researchers, and policymakers that developed the Responsible AI Framework (https://www.rilabs.org/responsible-ai) for the startup ecosystem

Project Highlights:

• The Giving Pledge is an effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage billionaires to commit the majority of their wealth to philanthropy
• Was the first hire and a core founding team member
• Devised and implemented a strategy that galvanized commitments of billions of dollars from high net worth individuals
• Took the pledge from zero to $1 trillion in three years
• Grew the ranks to nearly 100 billionaires (today it stands at $3 trillion from over 230 signers)
• Changed global norms around wealth and charitable giving

Project Highlights:

Created the first-ever impact measurement (financial, environmental, social) and management infrastructure and strategy for two major accelerators across the entire portfolio of cleantech / clean energy companies

Additional Info and Examples:

• Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Website
• Just Impact Report
• Elemental Excelerator
• Elemental Excelerator Impact Report

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Project Highlights:

• Shaped the organization’s foundational strategy to bring national scale to local problem solvers creating inclusive and sustainable prosperity
• Leveraged networks in an intentional way to align the right leaders around a big problem, ask hard questions and come to a shared vision, then hold ourselves accountable
• Created an Advisory Board of mayors, social entrepreneurs (The Arena and Echoing Green), union presidents (Carpenters and Operating Engineers), billion-dollar startup founders (Dollar Shave Club) and policy icons (Policylink, Brookings)

Project Highlights:

• Conceived and articulated a vision for how to integrate impact into GE’s corporate strategy, with a focus on sustainable economic development in emerging markets
• Interviewed and worked with senior leaders across all global business units to create case studies on multinational corporations engaged in impact measurement
• Laid the foundation for alignment of resources between business units, GE Ventures and Foundation teams