Dan Goldman

Daniel Goldman has over 25 years of energy industry experience in strategy, corporate and project finance, and project development, as well as private equity/asset investment and early-stage venture investing. Over the course of his career, Mr. Goldman’s experience has spanned the upstream, mid-stream and downstream oil, gas, coal and power generation sectors of the industry, and since 2000 has included an extensive focus on clean energy asset development and finance, energy efficiency technology development, as well as venture and project investments, both domestically and internationally. In addition to co-founding CEVG, from 2006-Sept 2016, he has held positions at GreatPoint Energy, including as its president and chief financial officer from 2011-16. GreatPoint Energy is a clean energy gasification company which Mr. Goldman helped to raise over $280 million from investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, Citi, Dow Chemical and China Wanxiang.

From 2002-06, Mr. Goldman co-founded and was the CFO at New Energy Capital, one of the first firms focused exclusively on investments in clean energy assets using proven technologies with backing from the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and VantagePoint Capital Partners. New Energy Capital invested in a portfolio of clean energy and bio-fuels projects and sold a large portion of the portfolio in 2006 at an attractive exit multiple for investors. Previously, from 1996-2001, he held senior development and finance positions at InterGen, a Bechtel-Shell joint venture global power development company, where he was involved in developing and financing thousands of megawatts of power generation facilities globally. Mr. Goldman started his professional career at Arthur D. Little, where he held positions of increasing responsibility as a senior member of the global energy consulting team in Cambridge and Singapore from 1989-1996. He was responsible for Arthur D. Little’s Asia Pacific Energy Consulting Practice from 1992-96.

Mr. Goldman holds a wide range of advisor and board roles: co-founder and director of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2); member of the board of directors, or a board observer, of several clean energy technology companies, including SparkMeter (director), REsurety (director), Quidnet Energy (observer), 7AC Tech. (observer), Zagster (observer); strategic advisor to Asia Environmental Partners, a Hong Kong-based private equity fund managed by Olympus Capital with $500 million of AUM; member of the board of directors, executive committee and finance committee of the Northeast Clean Energy Council, the leading advocate for the clean energy sector in the region. He has also focused on policy advocacy work to bring investors, policy makers and technology developers together to address issues of finance, scale-up and commercialization, among other key issues.

Mr. Goldman received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He is a board member and past Chairman (through October, 2015) of the External Advisory Board of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and has previously held other advisory board positions at Cornell.