Nicholas Eisenberger

Managing Partner

Nicholas Eisenberger is a pioneer of the clean economy. As a successful entrepreneur, investor, strategist, and highly regarded speaker and author, Nicholas has worked for two decades to advance the clean technology industry with several stints in the information technology sector. He has a unique track record of achieving environmental and financial impact both through entrepreneurial endeavors and corporate initiatives resulting in a broad perspective and expansive network.

Nicholas is the founder and Managing Partner of Pure Energy Partners, a venture catalyst firm that invests in high impact, high potential cleantech companies, projects, and funds and actively works to accelerate their commercial success. He is also a co-founder of GO Ventures, which invests in pathbreaking cleantech enterprises, a co-founder of the Clean Economy Network, and is a member of the board of directors of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the leading national umbrella organization for the industry.

From 2005-2009, Nicholas was Managing Principal of GreenOrder, which he and his partners established as one of the most influential sustainability strategy firms and sold in 2008. Called one of the “go to guys” in sustainability consulting by Fortune, Nicholas is widely recognized for his groundbreaking work with global companies such as GM, DuPont, HP, and GE, whose multi-billion dollar ecomagination initiative Nicholas played a key role in guiding from its launch.

Prior to that, Mr. Eisenberger was the founder and CEO of Ecos Technologies, an environmental management enterprise software company and a venture capital investor at Churchill Capital, one of the very first dedicated cleantech funds. In the mid-nineties, he also co-founded Mypoints.com, a pioneering public Internet marketing company that was purchased by United Airlines.

Nicholas is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and received a Certificate in Environmental Law from the University of California. He serves on numerous boards in the cleantech sector including the Global Thermostat LLC Advisory Board, the EOS Climate Advisory Board, the X PRIZE Foundation’s Energy & Environment Advisory Board, the Scottish Government’s Saltire Prize Advisory Board for Marine Renewable Energy, the President’s Advisory Council of the National Wildlife Foundation, the New York Council for Global Green USA, the Board of Directors of New York Sun Works, a sustainability and science education non-profit, and the Board of the New York Growing Up Green Charter School. Nicholas lives in New York City with his wife, Robin, and their three young daughters.

Past Clients: Nicholas has advised senior executives at a broad variety of leading global companies over the past decade. A partial list includes:

Sameer Rashid

Partner

Sameer Rashid is a clean economy entrepreneur, strategist, and evangelist with a nose for emerging opportunities, talent, and trends. Over the course of his career, Sameer has successfully identified and executed efforts to develop innovative markets, partnerships, and strategies in different sectors including CO2 capture and recycling, organic waste, and the cleanweb.

In 2005, Sameer co-founded Think 21, a start-up focused on commercializing an organic waste recycling technology. Sameer led Think 21 and its market development efforts throughout the US. After Think 21 was acquired by Kleiner Perkins- and Waste Management-backed Harvest Power, a leader in next generation organics management, Sameer was a catalyst for Harvest’s market leadership in the east coast and Canada.

Sameer joined Pure Energy Partners in late 2010 shortly after its launch. Before his foray into the clean economy sector, Sameer was a credit trader at Deutsche Bank, with a focus on energy and industrial sectors. Sameer is a graduate of The George Washington University, where he studied Economics. Sameer lives in Brooklyn with his wife Kate.

Ned Horneffer

Analyst

Ned joined Pure Energy Partners after graduating from the University of St Andrews with an MA (Honors) in Sustainable Development. At Pure Energy, he leads project management and a broad variety of portfolio project research activities.

During his time at University, Ned initiated a Jatropha biofuel cooperative in Botswana and successfully completed a charity car rally from London to UlaanBaatar, Mongolia using vegetable oil for fuel. Ned’s senior thesis examined Masdar City as a model for sustainable urban planning in the Middle East.

Ned’s professional interest in clean technology began early on when he worked for Acidophil, LLC, a life sciences- and green chemistry-focused venture creation firm founded by Philip Goelet, PhD and Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, MD PhD. Ned researched metabolic pathways in plants and bacteria which produce high-value polymers commonly derived from petroleum. Ned also assisted with the launch of ZuvaChem Inc., a company based around a novel technology to synthesize isoprene (natural rubber) from genetically engineered cyanobacteria.

In his free time, Ned is an avid squash player, sailor, and horseback rider.