Michael Mathres

Current

• Founder at Cleantech i
• Strategic Advisor at Sun Supermarket
• Co-Founder & Director at Mootral

2 more...

Education

• Hamilton College

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Financial Services

Michael Mathres’s Summary

Director of Climate Capital Network™ (www.climatecapital.net): the largest network of investors, entrepreneurs, companies and experts (>25'000) focused on the cleantech economy. We accelerate capital flow in the low-carbon economy (renewables, carbon markets etc...). Michael was featured in THE TIMES in April 2008.

Michael has 10 years entrepreneurial and financial experience in the environmental sector, with international investors, governments, companies, media, NGOs, High-Net-Worth-Individuals and celebrities. In the past year he has raised over £10m for various climate-related ventures including Global Cool (celebrity-led campaign: Sienna Miller, Josh Hartnett, KT Tunstall etc...).

In 2006, Michael was responsible for Climate Change Now the first renewable energy switching tool, supported by UNEP, European Environment Agency, Ben & Jerry's & Aveda, and managed to convince David Cameron and his Conservative Party to switch to renewable electricity. In 2005, he was the first entrepreneur to organise a global concert on climate change called the One Earth Concert with the help of Brian Eno. This was ahead of its time and did not happen, but paved the way for another event: LiveEarth last year. Prior to that he was the first person to tour 16 European capitals in a hybrid car, sponsored by Honda, BP, and Hilton, and encourage Europeans to switch to renewable electricity.

In 2004, he was the Founder of Susten8, (dubbed by the Financial Times as the ‘Green First Tuesday’), a network of more than 2’000 entrepreneurs and investors in the sustainability sector, that organised the first climate change conference in London. He holds a BA, from Hamilton College, NY, USA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce (RSA) & Unltd* the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, where he won a Millennium Prize for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. Michael is a French citizen, with Cambodian and Ukrainian origins and brought up in Switzerland.

Additional Information

Michael Mathres’s Honors:

Millenium Award 2004 for Social Entrepreneurship Unltd*
Fellow Royal Society of Arts and Commerce