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Libby Wayman

Investor, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Investor
VC

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Skills

Solar Energy
R&D
Thin Films
Energy
Renewable Energy
Manufacturing
Materials Science
Thermodynamics
Energy Efficiency
Photovoltaics
Modeling
Data Analysis
Matlab
Solidworks
Cleantech
Semiconductors
Characterization
Solar Cells
Design of Experiments
Engineering

Education

Investments

Dandelion Energy

Series B

Total Funding: $140M

Work Experience

Breakthrough Energy Ventures

2018

  • Partner

    2018

    $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.

GE

2015 - 2018

  • Global Director, Ecomagination

    2015 - 2018

U.S. Department of Energy

2012 - 2015

  • Director, Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative

    2013 - 2015

  • Senior Advisor, Manufacturing

    2012 - 2015

Alion Energy, Incorporated

2009 - 2012

  • 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

SunPower Corporation

2008 - 2009

  • R&D Engineer, PV Systems

    2008 - 2009

    Utility-scale solar product development

STG International / Promethean Power

2006 - 2008

  • Co-Founder, Board Director

    2006 - 2008

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

Delphi

2001 - 2001

  • Environmental Engineering Intern

    2001 - 2001

    Materials study to meet the EU recyclability directive