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John Balbach Joins Cleantech Group as Managing Partner to expand offerings and global reach

 

  • San Francisco, CA, January 17, 2007 – The Cleantech Group™, founder of the
  • cleantech investment category, today announced that John K. Balbach has joined as a
  • Managing Partner. The Cleantech Group™ is the premier global provider of cleantech
  • market research and thought-leadership and the parent company of the Cleantech Venture
  • Network®, the Cleantech Forums™ and the Cleantech Indices™.
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  • “Over the last five years, we defined and introduced cleantech as a significant investment
  • category,” said Nicholas Parker, co-founder and Chairman of the Cleantech Group™.
  • “With John’s diverse set of skills and remarkable career strengthening our partnership,
  • we can now look to better serve our rapidly growing membership of the world’s premier
  • cleantech investors and entrepreneurs, expand our offerings and address bottlenecks in
  • the adoption of cleantech solutions.”
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  • John will head the company’s new Silicon Valley office and will work closely with cofounders
  • Nicholas Parker and Keith Raab to accelerate the growth of the Cleantech
  • Group, develop and launch new products and expand internationally beyond the
  • company’s current focus on the North American and European markets.
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  • Prior to joining the Cleantech Group™, John served as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur,
  • advisor to world leaders, founder of international non-profits and senior policy maker in
  • Washington D.C. with responsibilities including managing national security allocations
  • exceeding $12 billion, launching 18 early-stage companies and raising or advising on the
  • placement of $350 million in growth capital for both private and public companies.
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  • “Cleantech will be the primary economic driver of our generation,” said John Balbach,
  • managing partner, the Cleantech Group™. “It is a great honor to be able to work directly
  • with the over 1,300 members of the Cleantech Venture Network® worldwide – the
  • pioneers creating the Second Industrial Revolution – in focusing innovation, capital
  • resources and entrepreneurial opportunity to solving many of the pressing challenges of
  • the 21st Century.”
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  • For more information on the Cleantech Group™, the Cleantech Venture Network®, the
  • Cleantech Forums™ or Cleantech Indices™, please visit: www.cleantech.com