Helen Priest

Current

• Principal at VantagePoint Venture Partners

Past

• Corporate Ventures Manager at Meridian Energy
• IT Planning Manager at Transpower
• Strategy Manager at Transpower

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Education

• University of Canterbury

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Industry

Renewables & Environment

Helen Priest’s Summary

Investment professional in the commercialisation of new technologies in clean tech, principally renewable energy and grid IT/smart grid

Helen Priest’s Specialties:

Identification of emerging technologies and business models, early-stage company strategy development

Helen Priest’s Experience

• Principal

  VantagePoint Venture Partners

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  September 2008 — Present (4 months)

• Corporate Ventures Manager

  Meridian Energy

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Utilities industry)

  2004 — September 2008 (4 years)

  Corporate Ventures group in Meridian Energy focuses on investing in early stage and high growth companies in cleantech

• IT Planning Manager

  Transpower

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)

  December 2000 — June 2004 (3 years 7 months)

  Responsible for all Transpower's IT investment and technical architecture

• Strategy Manager

  Transpower

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)

  December 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 1 month)

  Responsible for Transpower strategic plan development

Helen Priest’s Education

• University of Canterbury

  engineering, 1986 — 1989

Additional Information

Helen Priest’s Groups:

•    CleanTech
•    Energy & Utilities Network
•    NZ Angels
•    Fonterra Alumni
•    GreenBiz.com -- Green Business Professionals
•    The Carbon Professionals Networking Group