Libby Wayman
Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Lecturer
2020 - Current
Co-teach MIT Climate & Energy Ventures MIT 15.366 Climate & Energy Ventures is a project- and curriculum-based course that provides an opportunity for teams of engineering, business, and policy students from MIT and Harvard to create a new venture in energy and/or sectors that can address climate change. Objectives of the class are to provide a framework for commercializing innovations and starting businesses in these sectors, and to create the opportunity to launch a venture around a concept brought to or developed in the class.
Partner
2018
$1B+ fund founded by Bill Gates, John Doerr, Vinod Khosla, John Arnold, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and others to fund innovations that can address climate change. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is an investor-led fund made up of members of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, guided by scientific and technological expertise and committed to investing patiently in developing new ways to live, eat, travel and build.
Global Director, Ecomagination
2015 - 2018
GE Intelligent Platforms is a global provider of software, hardware, services, and embedded computing platforms.
Director, Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative
2013 - 2015
Senior Advisor, Manufacturing
2012 - 2015
US Department of Energy is a government administration that regulates energy policy, research, and development.
Head of Engineering Group
2010 - 2012
Led design of pilot manufacturing line and transfer of solar cell fabrication process from R&D to pilot production
Technical Lead, Solar Cell Research & Development
2009 - 2010
Led solar cell R&D process integration
Alion Energy is a solutions provider of solar systems plantation.
R&D Engineer, PV Systems
2008 - 2009
Utility-scale solar product development
SolarBridge Technologies commercializes power electronics technologies.
Raised $105,050,000.00 from Rho Ventures, Shea Ventures, Constellation Technology Ventures and SunPower.
Co-Founder, Board Director
2006 - 2008
Spin out from MIT on remote energy systems Formed Prometheam Power to commercialize the technology
Environmental Engineering Intern
2001 - 2001
Materials study to meet the EU recyclability directive