Daniel Goldman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GreatPoint Energy, Inc., a technology company commercializing catalytic gasification to convert biomass, coal and petroleum coke into pipeline quality natural gas while sequestering CO2. GreatPoint is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Advanced Technology Ventures and Khosla Ventures, as well as strategic investors, including Dow Chemical, Suncor Energy, AES Corp., Peabody Energy, and Citi’s Sustainable Development Investments. Mr. Goldman recently led GreatPoint’s $103 million Series C financing, which was the largest venture investment deals ever in the clean tech segment and overall one of the largest venture capital deals of 2007. He 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.
Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy in July, 2006, he was a founder, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of New Energy Capital Corp., one of the first investment companies 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 company and built the team, and raised $60 million. He oversaw New Energy Capital’s eight investments from its formation in 2004, including development of and equity participation in three ethanol projects. From 1996-2001, Mr. Goldman held regional and corporate senior management 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 wind development company, a co-founder of and Executive Advisor to an energy efficiency investment fund acquired by MMA Renewable Ventures, and a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Clean Energy Venture Group, an early stage investment fund. He is also a founding investor in several clean energy technology companies, a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England (www.e2.org), a founding member and advisor of the New England Clean Energy Council. 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.
