Sean Petersen

Climate Innovation

2021 - Current

General Partner

2019 - 2021

Venture Capital

2011 - 2019

Ran annual evergreen $100m direct venture investment program. Early stage direct equity investments in emerging markets and US/EU based technology companies in education, health, e-commerce, logistics, financial, agricultural, and resource efficiency. Lead or co-lead transactions with board seats typically. Additionally, lead investments in venture funds via annual $50m Limited Partner investment program for best of breed Series A emerging market venture funds.

Director

2006 - 2011

Responsible for venture capital opportunities in the cleantech/renewable energy space. Exits included Everpower, Concentrix, Sage and othters. Provided go to market strategy for investees and managed fundraise process. Board seats.

VP Business Development- Founding Team member

2001 - 2004

Founding team member who built the European and Asian businesses. Led dismissal of outsourced technology solution and advocated bringing technology in-house. Managed pivot to focus on Asia when US launch was delayed, a key strategic market success factor. Company merged with MRKT and IPO'd thereafter (significant nondisclosed positive outcome for investors). Swapswire business (OTC derivative transacions) is main engine behind $1Bn financial services revenue INFO.NASDAQ earns annually.

Vice President-Founder

1999 - 2001

Launched world's first electronic derivative broker in US. Led customer acquisition and business development in EU and built European team. Specified and designed product multiple releases of the system. Aided more $30m of venture fundraising. Company was acquired by Garban Intercapital (world's largest broker IAP.LSE) which thereafter was acquired by CME.

Associate

1994 - 1999

Commodity and Latin American Derivatives. Structured, priced and marketed derivative solutions to clients in the Americas including commodity linked/denominated debt, prepaid forward sales, exotics and contract monetizations. Software Developer who build trading platform for Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives leveraging C++ and Sybase development skills. Led key specification of systems design and trade capture capabilities.