Our platform is our competitive advantage, delivering outsized impact through deep knowledge, hyper-connectivity and an objective, grounded view on the global energy sector. We are energy nerds. Our platform is anchored by Team EIC, career investors, entrepreneurs and operators with decades of experience, governance expertise, venture capital leadership, executive management & strategy consulting. We lean on our advisory network for sage council, extended reach and portfolio company support. Through EIC Fusion, we collaborate with our strategic corporate partners on innovation for material mutual benefit.
Our team consists of experienced and proven investors and executives in energy technologies and solutions. Our deep operating and entrepreneurial experience allows us to provide tactical and strategic advice to founders, and our broad, significant history in the energy business gives an unparalleled perspective on the space. Collectively, we have been involved in over 150 companies. Our team is located in Houston, San Francisco, Boston, and New York, the energy, innovation and finance capitals of the world.
David Clouse
Tulsa
George Coyle
Houston
Paul Dickerson
Houston
Chad Gardner
Houston
Rajan Gupta
New York City
Andrew Lackner
Boston
Bob Lukefahr
Houston
Jennifer Rowland
Houston
Joaquin Silva
San Diego
Kevin Skillern
San Francisco
Christopher Smith
San Francisco
Yucen Xie
San Francisco
EIC’s extensive network includes seasoned Operating and Venture Partners, industry executive advisors, and our anchor investors (West River Group and the George Kaiser Family Foundation). This group represents over 30 executives representing industries spanning residential renewable power, conventional energy, engineering & construction, utilities, robotics and finance, with responsibilities ranging from Executive leadership to CEOs to Board of Directors of both publicly traded Fortune 500 and private companies.
Michael Allman
Advisor
Sanjay Bhatia
Advisor
Anthony Bontrager
Advisor
Vikki Dunn
Operating Partner
John Freer
Operating Partner
John Hanten
Operating Partner
Jesse Hejny
Advisor
Curtis Huff
Advisor
Dharmesh Mehta
Advisor
Marc Rowland
Advisor
Robert Thomas
Advisor
Mark Wilson
Advisor
Through our Fusion program, we partner with leading corporate executive teams on their critical innovation agendas and facilitate connections to leading external innovation. Fusion is an exclusive community of innovation partners that fosters collaboration amongst top startups, forward thinking corporations and the broader investment community. Our partners benefit from early access to highly curated and vetted technologies that they can deploy within their business to deliver value. We provide strategic innovation advisory services, innovation insights & events, and prospective investment opportunities. Fusion make us better investors and provides value to our members and portfolio companies.
EIC Rose Rock is a principally seed-stage energy tech venture capital fund, focused on providing capital to launch or expand operations of high potential companies in Oklahoma, or that are of high strategic interest to the Oklahoma-based Founding Partners. The EIC Rose Rock Founding Partners include three Fortune 500 energy leaders with a collective enterprise value of over $140B, and GKFF, a $4B philanthropic organization focused on combating intergenerational poverty. EIC Rose Rock enables EIC to expand our market presence, origination activity, and portfolio support programs, deepening our energy corporate partner relationships and provide our innovators with additional sources of non-dilutive funding and support. The EIC Rose Rock program also consists of Rose Rock Bridge, a premier energy tech startup incubator in Tulsa.
