Nick is CEO and co-founder of Fuzionaire, which is commercializing a patented breakthrough in “green chemistry” based on a revolutionary new catalyst discovered in a Nobel Prize winning lab at Caltech; co-founder and president of the Arch Mission Foundation, launching humanity’s most important knowledge and genetic data into special “Archs” (archives) designed to survive for millions of years in space; and founder and chairman of the Slavin Family Foundation, which through the Slavin Fellowship provides mentorship, support, and a scholarship to top entrepreneurs in college and graduate school. Nick co-founded his first company as an 18-year-old senior at Yale, and has since co-founded, advised, and invested in a variety of startups in energy, medicine, education, space exploration, blockchain, and virtual and augmented reality. For seven years, Nick was a corporate attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, which has been ranked the #1 corporate law firm by Corporate Board Member magazine for 16 consecutive years. Nick holds a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale, and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Sean has extensive experience in the technology, energy, finance, nonprofit, and government sectors, and is the founder of a company developing innovative tools for collaboration. Prior to joining EES, Sean practiced law for over six years at Hogan Lovells LLP, where he represented companies in complex acquisition/sale deals across these sectors, structured venture capital and private equity fund formations, and advised fund investors, including international development banks and universities. Sean also worked at a major aviation/government technology company negotiating multibillion dollar contracts and at a nonprofit advising early stage charities. As a JAG officer in the Air Force Reserve, Sean served with the 460^th Space Wing and was the Top Graduate in his Commissioned Officer Training class. Growing up, he was a professional actor, appearing in plays, television, and movies. Sean received his AB, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Princeton, MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

As Director of New Technology, Eden evaluates new technologies in our deal screening process and coordinates among our advisors and other experts in helping to source and evaluate investment opportunities. Eden is the inventor of the SunSaluter, a low-cost mechanism that optimizes solar panels while providing clean water for rural, off-grid communities in nine countries. Named one of the 30 under 30 in Forbes’ Energy category three years in a row (2012-2014) and Ashoka’s Youth Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2012), Eden speaks about her experiences at conferences, schools, and youth programs everywhere from West Philadelphia to rural Indonesia. Prior to joining the Thiel Fellowship’s inaugural class in 2011, Eden helped launch the social innovation movement at Princeton by starting and curating the very first TEDxPrincetonU in 2010. The SunSaluter won the Westly Prize (2012) and the Mashable/UN Foundation Startups for Social Good Challenge (2011), and was awarded the runner-up prize at the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge (2011).

Paul is the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering and the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment at Yale University. Previously, Paul was an Assistant Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Research and Development and the EPA’s Science Advisor from 2010-2012. He is widely known as the “Father of Green Chemistry” for his work in founding the field of designing chemicals that have reduced toxicity and processes that produce less waste. He has published over a dozen books on the science and engineering of sustainability and has won numerous awards, including the Heinz Award (Environment), the Scientific American 50 Award, the Council of Scientific Society Presidents Leadership in Science Award, and the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Prize. Paul previously served in the White House in both the Clinton and G.W. Bush Administrations, where he held posts in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Paul is a partner in the sustainability consulting group Sustainability A to Z, and co-founder of P2 Science, which specializes in renewable, bio-based chemicals. He received his BS from the University of Massachusetts and PhD from Brandeis.

Dan is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, the founding Director of Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. He has authored or co-authored 12 books, written more than 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, and testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and federal congressional briefings. He is a frequent contributor to or commentator in international news media, including Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. Dan has appeared on 60 Minutes (twice), Nova, Frontline, and hosted the six-part Discovery Channel series Ecopolis. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies, including Renewable Funding and Enphase Energy (IPO: 2012). Previously, he was Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. During 2010-2011 he served as the World Bank Group’s first Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. Dan received his BA in physics from Cornell and MA and PhD degrees from Harvard.

Olav is the Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management at Yale University and has studied, taught courses on, and participated in the venture capital industry for over twenty years. He has investigated the important role social capital plays in entrepreneurial success and the relationships between basic science and innovation, and has won numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching. Olav serves as a Department Editor at Management Science and Editor of the SSRN Journal on Entrepreneurship and the Social Sciences, and holds or has held editorial positions at 10 other journals. He has also served on the board of managers of PrairieGold Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on technology companies located in the Midwest. Prior to coming to Yale, Olav held the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto. He has also held professorships at London Business School, UCLA, and Chicago, and visiting appointments at universities in Hong Kong, Milan, Madrid, Melbourne, and Singapore. He received his AB from Harvard and his MA and PhD degrees from Stanford.

Nova is a leading technology futurist and serial entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Magical, an early stage science and technology incubator. He has founded numerous startups, resulting in multiple IPO’s and acquisitions amounting to several billion dollars of combined market capitalization and investor returns, and was recognized as one of the top 20 futurists in the world. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Bottlenose, an artificial intelligence and big data analytics company. In 1994, Nova co-founded one of the first Internet companies, EarthWeb, which led to a record-breaking NASDAQ IPO in 1998, and a second IPO of spinout, DICE, in 2007. He then worked with Stanford Research International (SRI) to co-found their technology incubator, where he worked on the original research that became SIRI, later acquired by Apple. Nova is also chairman and co-founder (with Nick Slavin) of the Arch Mission Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation that builds billion-year archives of humanity’s most important data. Nova is the grandson of Peter Drucker, widely considered “the father of modern management,” and has authored hundreds of articles, and more than 30 granted and pending patents in areas including AI, search, advertising, social media, augmented reality, virtual reality, and interactive TV.

Jonathan is a Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science and a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. One of the world’s leading Internet experts, he has been named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy and has been recognized by Fortune on its “Smartest People in Tech” list. He is a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, and is on the board of advisors for Scientific American. Previously, he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He is also on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which has named him a Young Global Leader. He is the author of The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It, and his research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, and the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture. Jonathan received his BS from Yale and JD and MPA degrees from Harvard.