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E+Co Board of Directors

Guy Kern-Martin

Guy Kern-Martin has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2006 and has served on E+Co's Investment Committee since May 2006. He became Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2009. Currently a Director of Barclays Capital, the investment-banking arm of Barclays Bank PLC, his responsibilities relate to structuring and documenting commodity derivatives and commodity structured products, including base metals, oil, refined products, gas and power; acquisition of trading portfolios; securitizations of commodity revenue streams, both in developed and emerging markets. . Through his previous experience working with Clifford Chance and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Guy has extensive experience in the assessment of legal, operational and reputational risk in emerging market trading and investment. He brings over 15 years of legal and finance experience to E+Co's Board. Guy holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England and a Master of Business Administration, INSEAD, France.

Johan Pieter van Tuyll van Serooskerken

Johan Pieter van Tuyll van Serooskerken has been a member of E+Co's Board of Directors since 2003. He brings to E+Co a long history in enterprise management, small enterprise creation and corporate finance. Since 1988, Pieter has been a principle at Business Creation BV, a private company, specializing in designing and managing the divestment of factories, in redeploying redundant employees, recycling redundant assets, and working with the objectives of reducing the social and economic costs of restructuring . In addition to serving on E+Co's Board of Directors, Pieter is also the Chair of the E+Co Investment Committee.

H. Harish Hande

Harish Hande is a member of E+Co's Board of Directors and the Managing Director of SELCO India. Harish has pioneered access to rural solar electrification for below poverty line families through a combination of customized home lighting systems, innovative doorstep financing, and an understanding of the market needs of different user groups. In 2007, the Schwab Foundation named Harish the Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007. Later that same year he was again recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit when India's prestigious business magazine, Business Today, named him as one of the 21 young leaders of the 21st Century.

William Foote

William Foote is the founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit social investment fund that is pioneering finance for grassroots businesses in the developing world. Mr. Foote began his career as a financial analyst in the Latin American Corporate Finance group at Lehman Brothers, and as a journalist in Mexico and Argentina. In March 2008, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, an honor which recognizes and acknowledges the top 200-300 young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. Mr. Foote serves on the steering committee and is a founding member of both the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) and the Aspen Institute's Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE). Mr. Foote holds a B.A. from Yale University and a M.Sc. in development economics and economic history from the London School of Economics. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Mr Foote joined E+Co's Board in 2008.

Dan Abbasi

Dan Abbasi leads MissionPoint Capital's (www.missionpointcapital.com) regulatory and public policy research and is responsible for originating and structuring energy and environmental finance transactions. Dan is a former Associate Dean at Yale University's Environment School, where he convened high-level meetings on climate change and authored: "Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action." He has served in strategy, M&A and senior operating roles for subsidiaries of the Washington Post Company and Time Warner. Dan was an appointee at the US Environmental Protection Agency, serving as a Senior Adviser in the Office of Policy, during which he co-chaired Strategy for the U.S. Environmental Technology Initiative, and helped produce the first U.S. Climate Change Action Plan. Dan was a key developer of the US environmental technology export strategy as the EPA Administrator's representative to the Secretary of Commerce's Trade Promotion Committee. Previously, while on staff at the World Resources Institute, he performed on-site advisory and consulting work on cost accounting for environmental costs and risks at Fortune 500 companies. Dan earned an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an MA in Political Science from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bruce Usher

Bruce Usher was CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc from 2002 to 2009, during which time he built it into the world's largest public carbon credit company. EcoSecurities structures and guides greenhouse gas emission reduction projects through the Kyoto Protocol, acting as principal intermediary between the projects and the buyers of carbon credits. Usher took EcoSecurities through its only private funding round, followed by an IPO, a secondary public placement and strategic investment, and the sale of the entire company to JP Morgan in December 2009. EcoSecurities has 250 employees in 21 countries, and has amassed one of the industry's largest and most diversified portfolios of emission reduction projects. Today, the company is working on 408 projects in 36 countries using 18 different technologies, with the potential to generate more than one hundred million carbon credits, representing approximately 10% of all projects approved by the United Nations under the Kyoto Protocol. Prior to EcoSecurities, Usher was co-founder and CEO of TreasuryConnect LLC, which provided electronic trading solutions to banks and was sold to eSpeed Inc in 2001. For the previous six years, Usher was COO of The Williams Capital Group, a boutique institutional investment bank specializing in capital markets activities for major corporations and institutional investors. Prior to that he spent four years as a Vice President at Lehman Brothers in both New York and Tokyo. Before joining Lehman, Usher worked for several years at the Chuo Trust & Banking Company in Tokyo. Mr. Usher is an Adjunct Professor of finance at Columbia Business School in New York, where he developed and teaches the Carbon Finance course and the Finance & Sustainability course in the MBA program. The objective of both courses is to utilize financial tools to create sustainable value for society. Usher has been teaching at Columbia since 2002. Mr. Usher received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.

Russell Diamond

Russell Diamond began working with the Investment Committee in 2007 and became a member in 2008. In 2010, he became Managing Director at Gates Capital Management, an alternative asset manager. Previously, he was the Chief Investment Officer and General Partner of Solution Capital Partners, a CleanTech fund of funds. He has also been the General Partner of R&D Capital Partners, a CleanTech fund, and GP of Saratoga Ventures LP, III and IV, medical device funds. He has worked in asset management and alternative investments at Prudential Securities, GEM Capital Management, and West Side Advisors. Mr. Diamond is a board member of American Clean Power, Inc. Mr. Diamond's philanthropic pursuits have included founding the BHAG Foundation, and working closely with Building with Books (BwB). In his role with BwB, he has raised over $2.5 million through strategic partnerships, including Millennium Promise. He and his wife have built two schools in Mali and in 2007 he received BwB's Global Impact Award. Mr. Diamond holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Lisa Kleissner

Lisa Kleissner is the President of the KL Felicitas Foundation, a family foundation co-founded with her husband, Charly, in 2000.  Lisa is an active impact investor working with a diverse group of entrepreneurs helping them build their enterprises. She collaborates with her peers to build out the broader ecosystem infrastructure in order to enable impact investing to go to scale. Raised in Hawaii, Lisa attended the Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawaii at Manoa graduating with a BArch in Environmental Design. She was the Vice President of an architectural firm in Hawaii doing work in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia and was the president of The Kleissner Group, an architectural and project management firm in Silicon Valley providing facility solutions for high-tech and bio-tech firms.  More recently she has been active in her philanthropic and investment work through her foundation and her board engagement. In addition to her involvement on E+Co's Board of Director, Lisa is co-Chair of The Philanthropy Workshop West, a non-profit transformative donor education program; co-founder of Toniic LLC, a global impact investing platform and a board member of CPOA Coastal Community Stewards, a rural community volunteer group in Big Sur, California.  Lisa is on the advisory boards of the Take Action! Conference, and the Global Philanthropy Forum.