Louis Schick

Louis Schick is a Director of Investments at Clean Energy Ventures, where Louis serves as a coach, mentor, and thought leader.

Louis focuses on identifying adoptable innovations to achieve rapid and significant climate impacts, leveraging over 30 years of experience in profitable decarbonization.

Louis helps form theses about investable segments, diligences opportunities, and collaborates with portfolio companies, currently emphasizing empowering the investment team.

Trained as a physicist, Louis holds a B.S. in Physics from Union College and an M.S. in Physics from Cornell University. Louis's career spans over two decades as a technologist in both large and small companies and as an investor in early and growth-stage ventures.

Prior to Clean Energy Ventures, Louis co-founded and served as CTO at NewWorld Capital, and was a Managing Director at Ritchie Capital. Louis also led the high-power product line of direct methanol fuel cells at MTI micro and held various positions at General Electric's Corporate Research and Energy groups, where Louis facilitated GE's entry into solar and wind energy and led the solid oxide fuel cell program.

Louis is an experienced investor in early-stage, growth equity, and project finance, and holds ten granted US patents. Louis actively serves on advisory boards for organizations such as the National Academies and Venture for Climate Tech, and frequently participates as a panelist and speaker at energy and technology conferences.

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