Alex Rozenfeld founded Climate Impact Capital, LLC in 2016 to help fill the market gap for early-stage companies and investors seeking to make an impact on climate change. Under Alex’s leadership, Climate Impact Capital launched Texas Innovates, a non-profit hardtech incubator working on regional energy challenges, where Alex is President of the BoD. With 20 plus years of energy and innovation experience, Alex has worked extensively as an entrepreneur, angel investor, business developer, and venture capitalist for Fortune 500 companies. His main focus has been on bringing corporations and entrepreneurs together to impact one of the world’s largest challenges – sustainable and plentiful energy access. He has been investing in energy technologies since 2001, including hydrogen, fuel cells, and energy storage. Notable roles include work on the earliest H2 vehicle station in California and President at Shell Technology Ventures, LLC. Alex has been an active supporter of the energy entrepreneurship community as an energy co-chair of the Houston Angel Network, chair of the Energy Initiative at The Center for Houston’s Future, Advisory Board member of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, founding Advisory Council member for the Houston Advanced Research Center and an active adviser to many energy companies. As the challenges to the Texas grid and the need for global grid resiliency became more urgent, CIC spun out CIC Energy Holdings, an integrated service provider focused on developing alternative energy microgrids in the commercial, municipal, and government sectors. His work also includes international roles, such as the Advisory Board to the Energy Innovation Initiative at World Economic Forum (WEF). Alex holds BSE magna cum laude and an International Policy certificate from Princeton University, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.