Ed Wetherbee

Ed has 30 years of experience managing VC funds and portfolio companies; as founder, builder, president and director of entrepreneurial companies; and as a mentor to others. He is co-founder and developer of the Old Sawmill District, a 45-acre, mixed-use urban Superfund remediation and redevelopment of formerly blighted industrial land in central Missoula, Montana. He is also co-founder of the Northern Rockies Regional Center in Missoula and Zhuhai, China, sponsoring projects for low-cost mezzanine funding.

Ed is a former chairman and currently Executive-In-Residence of University of Montana entrepreneurship and LA Cleantech Incubator programs. He was a partner in a national commercial real estate acquisition and development company. For more than 20 years, until 2010, he was a principal in a seed and early-stage venture capital company operating in Colorado, New Mexico and Montana. He was president of start-up companies that developed and operated three innovative utility-scale natural gas-fired electric power projects, a national scale agribusiness company, and served several interim roles including president of a clean-tech fund effort for the World Bank. Ed is Chairman of the Northern Rockies Advisory Board for The Trust for Public Land, a director of the Missoula Symphony, and has been director/advisor and committee chair of several boards of private, public and community service organizations. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado and the University of Denver.