Sandy Selman

Managing Director
2002
Asia West Inc. is a professional fund management firm specializing in early-stage companies with innovative technologies poised to disrupt large, mature industries. Asia West is serving as fund manager for the TMC Emerging Technology Fund LP, an early-stage venture capital fund sponsored by The Mortgage Collaborative targeting investments in companies that improve the efficiency of manufacturing and servicing mortgages, improve customer experience, improve quality and otherwise improve the profitability of mortgage origination. Previously, Asia West was the Fund Manager for the Asia West Environment Funds, strategic venture capital funds with a unique focus on investing in early stage, “venture grade” companies in North America and Europe possessing proprietary environmental technology that is commercially and environmentally relevant to the developing world, specifically China and India. Helped to create several businesses with sustainable long-term value in a highly challenging venture capital program combining investment in early-stage, unproven companies with technology commercialization and scale-up, widely varying geography and severely constrained head office resources.

2017

Advisor
2017
CPROP designs, develops and deploys blockchain-enabled software solutions to address pain points and opportunities in the global real estate industry. Blockchain's unique strength lies in its ability to create immutable timestamps and authenticate previously created data and content. We develop both proprietary applications as well as custom applications in conjunction with industry partners that have a clear value proposition with identifiable financial and/or risk management benefits. Blockchain will impact the real estate business across the entire value chain so join us as we bring blockchain into the mainstream in a commercially sensible manner without the hype.

2023 - 2024

Chief Financial Officer
2023 - 2024
SustainRNG develops, designs, engineers, finances, constructs and operates renewable natural gas generation projects in partnership with dairy farmers. My responsibilities included creating transparent financial reporting for the Board and senior team, building a fully functional budget and forecast model for both the company and the project SPVs, migrating the company from QBO to Sage Intacct and from Procure to Sage Construction Management, and establishing a new A/P protocol based on purchase orders. I also negotiated a highly attractive long-term strategic partnership to outsource trading desk functions for environmental attributes replacing a legacy RNG offtake arrangement with an energy major.

2021 - 2023

SVP, Project Finance
2021 - 2023
Greenlane is one of the world's leading suppliers of biogas upgrading equipment that creates renewable natural gas (RNG) from any source of biomethane. The RNG industry is experiencing a period of rapid growth worldwide and this role was created to position Greenlane as a partner to the project developer ecosystem to deploy capital and project finance expertise to accelerate the realization of RNG projects.

2020 - 2021

VP Innovation
2020 - 2021
Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. (NTC) is a leading post-closing document services provider to the residential mortgage industry, providing a wide range of services to the nation's top mortgage lenders, servicers and investors as well as various government entities. Working within New Product Development, the innovation role supports NTC's mission to be a best-in-class fintech company.

2014 - 2017

Co-Founder/CEO
2014 - 2017
Sanus Connect created cutting edge data-driven platform solutions that are disruptive to mature industries ripe for change. In the real estate sector, Sanus developed a novel cloud-based data platform for a Fortune 500 global property management firm, comprising proprietary mobile and web apps, that reduces the costs and risks of operating and maintaining large, multi-tenant properties while generating information required to improve financial outcomes associated with capital planning and budgeting.

2008 - 2013

Non-Executive Chairman
2008 - 2013
Served as Chairman from our initial Series A investment through to achieving cash flow breakeven several years later. E-Leather uses proprietary technology to convert leather tannery scrap into composition leather-on-a-roll that competes head-on with natural leather hides in commercial aviation, ground transport, footwear and home furnishings. Following commissioning of the first manufacturing plant, initiated and led a restructuring of the company where the founding management team was replaced by new leadership. Served as interim CEO during the restructuring process and worked closely with the new management team to re-build momentum. E-Leather is now the global market leader in leather seat covers for commercial aircraft. In 2017, E-Leather and Nike announced a long-term, strategic innovation partnership to introduce a new super-material to the sport footwear brand which led to the construction of a second manufacturing plant.

2004 - 2013

Director
2004 - 2013
MBA was the world's largest recycler of post-consumer mixed plastic scrap relying on proprietary technology to harvest high-value engineered plastic resins from electronic scrap shredder residue (ESR) and automobile shredder residue (ASR). MBA's plastic resins compete with virgin resins in virtually limitless applications. Led a Series D round that financed the company's first two commercial ESR plants (China and Austria) and served on the board through the construction and commissioning of its large ASR plant in the UK. The company was sold to a strategic buyer.

1995 - 2002

Managing Director
1995 - 2002
A strategic financial advisory consultancy focused on venture capital for new energy and environmental technologies and project financing of energy and environmental infrastructure, particularly in developing countries. Key clients included The World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme, The Rocky Mountain Institute, Exelon and Norsk Hydro on projects ranging from power project development to technology commercialization to utility privatization. Assignments were worldwide including Asia, Russia, Indian sub-continent, Africa, Latin America as well as North America.

1990 - 1995

VP
1990 - 1995
Within ABB Project & Trade Finance, structured and arranged financing to support the sale of ABB’s products and services worldwide. Internal clients were ABB’s US gas, steam and hydro turbine businesses, ABB Paint Finishing and ABB Canada (power, pulp & paper). Project assignments were worldwide including China, Latin America, Africa as well as North America. Led and closed $250 million in structured finance transactions.

Environmental and Technology Finance Professional