Stephan Dolezalek

Member Board Of Directors

2021

Managing Partner, Grosvenor Food & AgTech

2021

Executive Director

2019

Board Member and Member of Investment Committee

2017 - 2021

Wheatsheaf Group directly operates, invests in and helps to develop businesses in the food and agriculture sectors, and has made active investments in just under 20 different businesses in that sector. The firm was established in 2012 with the ambition of building a business of significance to diversify, beyond property and land, the business activities of the Grosvenor Estate, of which Wheatsheaf is a part.

Founder & Managing Member

2016

Resourcient promotes scalable investment in resource efficient businesses -- since 2016 we have been helping to build businesses that are prescient about where they are headed, resourceful with their people and assets, efficient in the way they utilize scarce resources and resilient in their ability to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Chairman Of The Board

2019

Board Member

2018

AeroFarms is on a mission to transform agriculture by building and operating environmentally responsible farms throughout the world to enable local production at scale and nourish our communities with safe, nutritious, and delicious food.

Board Member

2020

A better food system from plant to plate means empowering breeders, farmers, ingredient and food manufacturers, retailers and consumers to ensure better food by intent, design and access.

Board Member

2020

Purfresh is the world's only door to door transport system that combines on demand ozone generation capabilities, real-time monitoring and controlled atmosphere

Board Member

2018 - 2019

GrowSafe has developed and is continuously expanding a set of advanced animal agriculture management systems using computationally intensive algorithms, data mining and machine learning techniques. The Company uses a proprietary data acquisition platform incorporating biometric and environmental sensors and advanced mathematics and quantitative modeling to provide clients with predictive decision-making solutions. Every application the Company builds is designed to deliver measurable, reliable and scalable scientific advantages that the Company’s clients can leverage for real economic benefit.

Managing Director

1999 - 2017

Dolezalek joined VantagePoint in 1999 and led the Firm’s CleanTech Group since its inception in 2002. He has been an active participant in many CleanTech advisory groups, including the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Leadership Council, the Center for American Progress (CAP) Clean Tech Council and the University of Texas Energy Management and Innovation Center Advisory Board. At VantagePoint, Dolezalek previously served as head or co-head of the Firm’s Software and Life Sciences Groups.

Board Member

2015 - 2017

Ostara is a VantagePoint portfolio company that has commercialized a sustainable solution to nutrient management that safeguards precious water resources by recovering phosphorus and nitrogen from used water streams and transforming them into an environmentally responsible, slow-release fertilizer.