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Michael Shimazu
NYSERDA, Project Manager
Clean Energy Research and Market Development
Michael Shimazu is a Project Manager at The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in Clean Energy Research and Market Development. He manages NYSERDA`s incubator, manufacturing incentive, and business development programs to increase the opportunities for clean technology companies to commercialize new products and grow their business. He has more than 20 years experience in technology commercialization at the intersection of startup companies, universities and government.
He was a co-founder and corporate officer at Molecular OptoElectronics Corp., an optical components company, where he raised more than $27 million in venture capital and launched several profitable new products. He has advised several technology startups as a consultant and Business Development Director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and held positions in technology-based economic development in New York, Massachusetts and Hawaii. He holds the S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 Michael Carr
Counsel
The United States Senate Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources
Michael Carr is a counsel on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee handling coal utilization, vehicle fuel efficiency, financing and early commercialization of emergent energy technologies, and other related issues. After graduating from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College with a certificate of specialization in Environmental Law, he has advised on law and policy both inside and outside of government. He handled environmental and appropriations issues for Congressman David Skaggs (D-CO) until his retirement in 1998 followed by stints in the Solicitor`s Office of the Department of the Interior and in private practice. He has been involved in litigation related to NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. He has been with the Committee since 2004.
Maria Gotsch
President and CEO
New York City Investment Fund
Maria G. Gotsch is President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Investment Fund (www.nycif.org) and also serves as President of the Fund`s Civic Capital Corporation, which manages the Fund`s charitable investments.. The Fund, which has raised over $100 million, has built a network of top experts from the investment and corporate communities who help identify and support New York City`s most promising entrepreneurs in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. The Fund will invest in most industry sectors and at any stage of business development. It also provides financing for projects that contribute to the economic renewal of blighted areas and alleviation of poverty.
Prior to joining the Fund in 1999, Maria was a Managing Director at BT Wolfensohn (now part of Deutsche Bank), providing strategic and financial advice related to mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and the development of business strategies. Before starting with Wolfensohn, Maria worked at LaSalle Partners in the New York area and for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York and London. Maria has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Wellesley College. She was also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study international relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland.
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David Anthony
Managing Partner
21Ventures
David Anthony http://twitter.com/davidanthony21 is an experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and educator. Since 2004, 21Ventures has provided seed, bridge, and growth capital to more than 40 technology ventures. Mr. Anthony sits on the board of portfolio companies: Agent Video Intelligence, 3GSolar, BioPetroClean, Clean Power Technologies and Advanced Telemetry. David is on the board of directors of publicly traded World Water and Solar, there he functions as the chairman of the audit committee and chair of the compensation committee.
David is an Adjunct Professor at the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). The Academy, based in Manhattan brings together scientists of different disciplines from around the world to advance the understanding of science, technology, and medicine, and to stimulate new ways to think about how their research is applied in society and the world. The Academy is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost organizers of scientific conferences and symposia. David’s students at the Academy hail from such prestigious institutions as Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Yale, Rockefeller University, Sloan Kettering, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition David is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of business where he began teaching technology entrepreneurship in the Fall of 2009.
In 1995, David launched Notorious Entertainment, a developer of multimedia brands, which published the internationally distributed magazine, Notorious, and developed an early streaming website. In 1998, he sold the company to entertainment mogul Sean P. Diddy Combs, and ran the company for two subsequent years. Before Notorious, Mr. Anthony, with Dartmouth College professor Dr. John K. Shank, consulted for Fortune 500 clients on capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and entrepreneurship.
David received his MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1989 and a BA in economics from George Washington University in 1982. He is an entrepreneurship mentor at the Land Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 2002, David was awarded the Distinguished Mentor of the Year Award from Columbia University.
 David Kirkpatrick
SJF Ventures
Managing Director and Co-Founder
David Kirkpatrick is Managing Director and co-founder of SJF Ventures, a cleantech and positive impact venture capital fund, with offices in Durham, NC, New York City and San Francisco. SJF focuses on high growth ventures with cleantech and workforce innovations and was founded in 1999. David has helped lead SJF`s capitalization of two funds totaling $45 million. SJF Ventures I and II have invested in 29 portfolio companies with $500 million in sales, 128 facilities, and 4,500 quality jobs. David also co-founded SJF Advisory Services, a non-profit corporation, which has assisted 1,800 positive impact enterprises across the U.S.
Previous to SJF, he founded and managed two other successful enterprises KirkWorks, a cleantech investment research firm, and SunShares, a solar energy and recycling company. David was named the national 2005 CDVC Practitioner of the Year by the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance and Recycler of the Year in 1996, the National Recycling Coalition’s award for leadership in the recycling industry.
David earned a BA in Physics and History from Duke University in 1982 and an MBA from UNC Business School in 1991. He serves on the Boards of groSolar, B.B. Hobbs, Ed Map, the NC Sustainable Energy Association, the CDFI Coalition, and the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.
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