About.

Managing Partner

Jimmy Jia

Jimmy is an innovation strategist with expertise in energy, infrastructure, carbon, and ESG. He consults with publicly listed companies, governments and financial firms on long-term strategies, including ESG, sustainability, and capital investments. He has been involved in several innovation ecosystems, including chairing the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest, board member at the CleanTech Alliance in Seattle, and chairing the Strategy Committee at the Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego. He is a Venture Partner at Pi Labs, focused on built environment innovation and ESG diligence. He has published two books and holds five patents.

Managing Partner

Evan Taylor

Evan is a serial deep technology innovator and business leader with global experiences, who works on projects beyond sustainability and toward restorative models inherently improving the environment and local ecosystems. Prior to science-focused entrepreneurship, Evan worked on over $4bn of private equity funded projects and investment across both project management and due diligence roles. He has been a startup advisor and EIR at the MIT Enterprise Forum, The Capital Network, UC Davis Venture Catalyst, Climate Haven, and Mass Challenge, and a Co-Investigator on over $27M of Dept. of Energy technology commercialization and scale up awards.

Advisory Partner

Dennis West

Dennis West has 15+ years of experience as a founder, adviser, and researcher in strategy, governance, and finance of sustainable transitions. He helps leaders and organizations to make a positive impact, and his work is informed by research and teaching at Oxford University and the London School of Economics. He co-developed the climate sprint method and since 2023 designed, led, and advised cross-sector partnerships for agile sustainable development, with participating Fortune 500 companies and  governmental organizations such as the EU and the IFC.

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