About: David Gold

David Gold is an entrepreneur and engineer with national public policy experience who heads up cleantech investments for Access Venture Partners (www.accessvp.com). He is an ardent believer in the critical nature of clean technology to the U.S.’s economic strength and national security as well as to the world’s environmental well-being, and the power of the free market to drive the extraordinary changes that are needed to create sustainable energy production and consumption.

Mr. Gold earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with Special Honors from the University of Colorado and was a National Science Foundation Fellow while earning Masters Degrees in both Aerospace Engineering and Technology Policy from M.I.T.

After working as an engineer with NASA, Mr. Gold spent a short time working on Capital Hill and served in the Executive Office of the President of the United States where he was responsible for budget and policy oversight of the U.S. Land Remote Sensing and Weather Satellite programs as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Subsequently he worked for several years as a manager growing a network of manufacturing consulting centers that assisted smaller manufacturers implement improved quality and efficiency. As part of his role, Mr. Gold launched an initiative focused on green manufacturing through waste reduction.

Prior to joining Access Venture Partners, Mr. Gold was founder and CEO of ProSavvy, an eProcurement and online marketplace company which grew to profitability and a merger. After ProSavvy, Mr. Gold spent a number of years working with early stage companies as an advisor, board member and part time executive before joining the Access team.

Posts by David Gold:

• Becoming CEO of a Venture Backed Company: Are You Ready for Combat?
  13 Mar 2013 | Posted in Finance, North America
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• Now That the Cleantech Hype is Gone, the Real Venture Investment Opportunity Begins
  09 Nov 2012 | Posted in Finance, Renewables
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• Fingernails on a Chalkboard: “Pivot” and Other Lame Business Expression Fads
  12 Jun 2012 | Posted in Finance, North America
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• Top Questions to Ask a Venture Capitalist in the First Pitch
  02 May 2012 | Posted in Efficiency, Finance, Renewables
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• Top Questions to Ask a Venture Capitalist in the First Five Minutes
  27 Mar 2012 | Posted in Finance, North America
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• A Shining Star of Bipartisan Cleantech Support
  06 Feb 2012 | Posted in Finance, North America, Renewables
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• A Cleantech VC Who is Unconvinced of Man-Made Climate Change
  19 Dec 2011 | Posted in Climate Change & Carbon Emissions, Renewables
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• Feeling Blue About Green? Reasons for Cleantech Optimism…
  15 Nov 2011 | Posted in North America, Renewables
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• Obama Cleantech Stimulus: Bad Policy, Bad Politics and Bad for Cleantech
  26 Oct 2011 | Posted in Finance, Legislation, North America
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• Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Capital
  27 Sep 2011 | Posted in Finance, Renewables
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• If Energy Were Free and Unlimited…
  13 May 2011 | Posted in Energy, North America
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• Renewable Energy Standards: Savvy or Silly?
  20 Mar 2011 | Posted in Legislation, North America, Renewables
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• You Call This “Cleantech”?
  05 Jan 2011 | Posted in Gadgets, North America
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• Election Does Not Spell Cleantech Doom
  01 Dec 2010 | Posted in Efficiency, North America, Renewables
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• Meet the Rodney Dangerfield of Cleantech
  15 Oct 2010 | Posted in Geothermal, North America
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