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Libby Wayman

Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2018 - Current

    $1B+ fund founded by Bill Gates, John Doerr, Vinod Khosla, John Arnold, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and others to fund innovations that can address climate change. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is an investor-led fund made up of members of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, guided by scientific and technological expertise and committed to investing patiently in developing new ways to live, eat, travel and build.

  • Global Director, Ecomagination

    2015 - 2018

  • Director, Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative

    2013 - 2015

  • Senior Advisor, Manufacturing

    2012 - 2015

  • Head of Engineering Group

    2010 - 2012

    Led design of pilot manufacturing line and transfer of solar cell fabrication process from R&D to pilot production

  • Technical Lead, Solar Cell Research & Development

    2009 - 2010

    Led solar cell R&D process integration

  • R&D Engineer, PV Systems

    2008 - 2009

    Utility-scale solar product development

  • Co-Founder, Board Director

    2006 - 2008

    Spin out from MIT on remote energy systems Formed Prometheam Power to commercialize the technology

  • Environmental Engineering Intern

    2001 - 2001

    Materials study to meet the EU recyclability directive

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