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Stephan Dolezalek

Managing Director
Resourcient

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Stephan Dolezalek has worked with entrepreneurial companies since the 1980s. He has been a clean energy investor since 2002 and led the VantagePoint Capital Partners' CleanTech Group from its inception. Collectively, the group made 42 clean technology investments totaling $1 billion. Under his leadership the Firm’s CleanTech practice was several times named CleanTech Investor of the Year (most recently in 2013). He is a Non-Executive Director and member of the Investment Committee of Wheatsheaf Investments Ltd, a Grosvenor Estate investment entity focused on investing in companies developing innovative solutions in the food, energy and water security sectors. He is also a Senior advisor to The Broadscale Group, a network of large utilities and energy companies focused on accelerating innovation through strategic partnerships with the most promising new companies in the sector.

Prior to joining VantagePoint in 1999, he spent 16 years as a corporate and securities attorney, lastly as Chairman of the Life Sciences Group and Managing Partner for the Palo Alto office of then 900-lawyer Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. He has served as a Foundation Board Member for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia and on the advisory boards of a variety of clean energy organizations including Rocky Mountain Institute's eLab, The CleanTech Group, the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Energy Management and Innovation Center of the University of Texas, McCombs School of Business. Stephan also organized and ran the annual ResourcePoint CleanTech Summit, a private conference for thought and industry leaders in CleanTech.

In his 30+ years of working with entrepreneurial technology companies, Stephan has helped start, grow and scale companies in the computing, tele- and datacomm, biotechnology and clean energy industries. He has helped "raise" five "unicorns" -- companies reaching valuations of between $1 and $100 billion. At VantagePoint, Stephan led both the Life Sciences and Software practice groups before founding the Firm’s Clean Technology practice in 2002.

Stephan holds a Bachelor in City Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

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