Rick Defieux

Rick Defieux, the Chair of SJF’s Investment Committee and co-founder of SJF, has been a venture capitalist for over 30 years. From 2009 to 2015, Rick was also an advisor to Battelle and Battelle company 360ip, where he managed the investment activities of two venture funds in Asia. Previously, Defieux was a General Partner of five US-based venture capital funds, including Edison I, II and III, where he devised and led the firm’s environmental and energy investing program and shared responsibility for communications investments. He received a Cleantech Pioneer award in 2003 from the Cleantech Group. Prior to venture capital, Rick was a Senior Scientist and Division Manager at Environmental Research & Technology Inc (ERT), then a leading environmental consulting and engineering services firm. Rick has an MBA from Columbia University and a BA and MA from Boston University.