 Daniel Goldman is a co-founder of CEVG and brings 20 years of energy industry experience in strategy, corporate and project finance, project development, policy as well as private equity and venture capital investing. Since July 2006, he has served as 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. GreatPoint converts coal, petroleum coke and biomass directly into low-cost, clean, pipeline-quality natural gas, while capturing and sequestering the carbon dioxide, with a primary focus on enhanced oil recovery. Mr. Goldman oversees finance, accounting, strategic planning, risk management, public affairs and policy initiatives, and business development for the company. GreatPoint has raised $150M and is backed by leading financial firms, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Advanced Technology Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Citi Capital Advisors, as well as strategic investors, including Dow Chemical, Suncor Energy, AES Corp. and 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. He has also negotiated multiple strategic relationships with investors and partners for joint development of projects and the purchase and sale of feedstock and natural gas.
Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, from 2002-2006, Mr. Goldman was a co-founder and served as 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, assembled the team, and raised equity from a venture capital firm and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), and also secured several hundred million of non-recourse project finance. He oversaw New Energy Capital's eight investments from its formation in 2004, including development of and equity participation in three biofuels 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. As a strong advocate for clean energy technology development to address climate change, 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 MMA Renewable Ventures energy efficiency business (the predecessor to Metrus Energy, an energy efficiency finance firm); a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Clean Energy Venture Group, an early stage clean tech investment fund which has a portfolio of six investments; and senior advisor to Asia Environmental Partners, a $250M Asia-focused private equity fund managed by Olympus Capital. Mr. Goldman serves on the Board of Directors of Sunrise Ridge Algae, a renewable fuels company; he was a prior Board member of General Compression and SolarWorks, and is a Board Observer to Next Step Living, a residential energy efficiency company, and OutSmart Power Systems, a building energy management solutions company. He is also a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England (www.e2.org), a business advocacy group linked to NRDC. 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, university symposia and on Capitol Hill. He has an extensive network of executive level relationships in the banking and finance sector, venture capital and private equity, NGOs and with leading academics. His most recent policy initiatives have focused on financial solutions to solve market inefficiencies and the establishment of technology commercialization centers to help companies scale their clean energy technologies. He has also worked closely with the Senate ENR committee supporting the drafting of the CEDA language. Mr. Goldman 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. He lives in Newton, MA with his wife and three daughters. 
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