Shawn Garvey

Shawn Garvey is a serial entrepreneur and environmental activist. Garvey is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Momentum, a family of companies working to design, develop and deploy transformational clean energy technologies. In that position, he has developed $6B+ for early stage, pre-commercial and commercial technologies with over 500 innovation partners. He is a co-founder and board chair of Energy Mission Control, Inc, which designs, manages, and executes electricity consumption data products for forward-thinking on- and off-road vehicle fleet operators, and also co-founder and director of MXV Ventures, a company that designs clean-tech incubation and accelerator programs and invests in early-stage clean energy innovations and start-ups. Garvey has successfully lead the fund process for multiple incubators and accelerators, among them the $50M California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) Initiative, $11M California TestBed (CalTestBed) Initiative, $6M BlueTechValley Accelerator at CSU Fresno, $7M NY Climate Fight Accelerator. He founded The Sierra Fund, a foundation for the environment committed to the land and people of California’s Sierra Nevada headwaters which sponsored successful legislation creating the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, which has invested over $500M in land and water conservation in California's Sierra Nevada. Garvey co-founded several non-profit organizations, including The Sierra Fund, Velocity7, Green Research and Green Mountain Film Festival. Garvey founded Smart Campaigns, a successful political communications firm that has helped to elect hundreds of Democratic and progressive candidates for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, throughout the United States and abroad.