GreenBeat 2009, The Conference on the Smart Grid

Don Wood leads the DFJ Global Network Funds and is an active member of DFJ’s investment team, with a primary focus on Cleantech and IT investing. His cleantech career began at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. working in the policy planning department. Later he was SVP of Sales and Marketing at International Power Technology which designed, financed, installed and operated gas-turbine co-generation power plants. Don Wood also assisted the founders of SunPower (SPWR) in writing their original business plans and raising capital. He served on the Board and was President of Metricom (MCOM), which provided wireless smart grid systems to utilities and pioneered the first wireless mesh-network Internet service.