 Daniel Goldman is a co-founder of CEVG and brings 20 years of energy industry experience in strategy, corporate and project finance, project development as well as private equity and early stage venture capital investing. Currently, he is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GreatPoint Energy, Inc., a technology-driven natural resources company and the leading developer of a proprietary, highly-efficient catalytic process, known as HydroMethanationTM, by which coal, petroleum coke and biomass are converted directly into low-cost, clean, pipeline-quality natural gas, while allowing for the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. Mr. Goldman oversees finance, accounting, strategic planning, risk management, public affairs and business development for the company. GreatPoint is backed by leading financial firms, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Advanced Technology Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Citi's Sustainable Development Investments, as well as strategic investors, including Dow Chemical, Suncor Energy, AES Corp., Peabody Energy. Mr. Goldman led GreatPoint's $103 million preferred stock sale, one of the largest venture investment deals ever completed in the clean tech sector and overall one of the largest venture deals of 2007.
Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy in July, 2006, he was a founder and Chief Financial Officer of New Energy Capital Corp., one of the first funds focused exclusively on investments in clean energy projects (renewable energy, renewable fuels and distributed generation). Mr. Goldman developed New Energy Capital's clean energy project investment strategy, formed the firm and built the team, and raised $60 million of equity and several hundred million of project debt. He oversaw New Energy Capital's eight investments from its formation in 2004, including development of and equity participation in three ethanol projects, which were later sold at an attractive multiple of invested capital. From 1996-2001, Mr. Goldman held regional and corporate senior management development and finance positions in Hong Kong and Boston at InterGen, a leading power generation company co-owned by the Bechtel Group and Royal/Dutch Shell. While at InterGen, he was actively involved in over $4 billion of project development, acquisitions and non-recourse financings, and also played a key role in strategy formulation and operational management of the global business. Prior to InterGen, he held positions of increasing responsibility as a senior member of the global energy consulting team at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge and Singapore from 1989-1996, including Director of the Asia Pacific Energy Consulting practice based in Singapore from 1992-1996. Mr. Goldman has played a founding role in several other companies. He is a co-founder of Minuteman Wind, a New England-based wind development company; a co-founder of Metrus Energy, an energy efficiency finance company; and an advisory board member of Asia Environmental Partners, a $150M private equity fund. Mr. Goldman serves on the Board of Directors of General Compression, a dispatchable wind technology company, Sunrise Ridge Algae, a renewable fuels company and Next Step Living, a residential energy efficiency company. He also has been a founding investor in several energy technology companies and is a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England (www.e2.org). Mr. Goldman has been actively leading efforts to bring together the investment community, environmental groups, policy makers and clean tech companies to promote investment in the sector and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and university symposia. He received a B.S. from Cornell and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and he serves on Cornell University's undergraduate Business Advisory Council. Mr. Goldman lives in Newton, MA with his wife and three daughters. 
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