Mr Peter S H Grubstein

KANDO id: 15482

Bio

Mr. Grubstein is a founder and Managing Member of NGEN Partners, LLC. Peter has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, operating executive, venture and financial investor. He founded NGEN in 2001 out of a deep conviction that resource scarcity and energy efficiency would be drivers of technology innovation in the 21st century; and that those innovations could be built into successful portfolio companies addressing environmental challenges that we face today. He has grown the firm from one of the earliest to invest in clean technologies, to a three-fund family with over $500 million under management. Prior to NGEN, Mr. Grubstein made diverse private investments, ranging from leveraged buyouts and leveraged recapitalizations to early venture investments in materials science. Peter has had successful investment exits in Renaissance Lighting, Textronics, U.S. Labs, AnaServe, Carolina Steel, Premiere Video and Kenfil. He gained early career experience as an executive in a global manufacturing firm, working in Germany as well as the United States. Mr. Grubstein is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Renewable Funding, eIQ Energy and Hycrete. He maintains a close relationship with the Materials Science Department at UC Santa Barbara, and was instrumental in bringing Nobel Prize winner Alan J. Heeger and other noted scientists as Venture Partners to NGEN. Grubstein is a graduate of Yale University and the Phillips Exeter Academy.

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