Robert W. Shaw, Jr. is president of Aretê Corporation, the Manager of the Micro-Generation Technology Fund, LLC, a venture capital fund investing in small-scale energy systems. In mid-2007 he was asked by Sumitomo Corporation to manage SC Green Tech Ventures, LLC. He was founder and president of Aretê Ventures, Inc., from 1983 to 1997, and served as the managing partner of the five Utech Funds from their inception to completion. Shaw also serves on the investment committees of the SAM Private Equity Fund (recently renamed Emerald Technology Ventures) and Commons Capital, and as special limited partner of Nth Power Technologies and of Atrium Capital/Honda Ventures. Prior to forming Aretê, he was a senior vice president and a member of the board of directors of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he was a founder of the firm’s energy division. Earlier in his career, Shaw conducted materials and electronics research at Bell Laboratories and at the Cavendish Laboratory in the U.K.
Shaw has served on numerous corporate boards; he served as chairman and a director of Distributed Energy Systems Corp. from its inception in 1996 to 2007, and previously served as chairman and director of Evergreen Solar, Inc. from its inception in 1994 through 2005. He has served on numerous other corporate boards during his venture capital career, most recently as chairman and director of CTP Hydrogen Corporation, and a director of H2Gen Innovations, Inc. Shaw is a member of the DoE’s Hydrogen Technology Advisory Committee, and has also served on the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council. Shaw received an M.P.A. in Organization Design and Development from American University and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University, as well as MSEE and BEP degrees from Cornell University. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi, and has been listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, and American Men and Women of Science. Shaw writes and speaks frequently on investing in energy technologies, climate change issues, and investing in sustainable business.
