Sean Schickedanz, General Partner and Chief Investment Officer, has made over thirty early stage venture investments in the last 12 years, including OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN), ACA Financial, ProClarity (acquired by MSFT), CallTower, USBX (acquired by Imperial Capital), SunLink, Marrone Bio Innovations, and American Efficient.  He has been a director of twelve start-ups at various stages of development.  Prior to co-founding Clean Pacific Ventures, he was Managing Partner at Sunflower Capital Partners, a generalist early stage venture fund.  He was previously a Managing Director and group head within the consumer investment banking practice of Montgomery Securities after beginning his career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch.  Sean currently sits on the board of portfolio companies LumiGrow, Marrone Bio Innovations and American Efficient.  Sean also serves on the Advisory Board of Bay Grove Capital and is a Mentor in the Greenstart.com program for nascent cleantech companies.. Sean received a BA in English from Brigham Young University, and a JD and an MBA from Duke University. 

Jeff Barnes, General Partner, has had three successful results with start-ups, providing a strong operational and strategic experience base for managing venture investments. Prior to co-founding Clean Pacific Ventures, Jeff spearheaded business development and marketing for Purfresh, a venture-backed clean technology water and food purification company with a long list of Fortune 500 customers. Jeff also was the first marketing and business development executive of two successful technology start-ups, VocalPoint (acquired by Telecom Italia) and Acendi. Previously, Jeff spent 5 years at Bain & Company in the Private Equity and Technology practices consulting to private equity funds and to major technology companies. Jeff has invested in Blingo (acquired by Publishers Clearing House), VocalPoint (acquired), Advanced Educational Corporation (acquired) and Purfresh. Jeff is CEO and Chairman of HydroNovation and is a Board Director of Clean Power Finance and Aquacue. Jeff holds a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University and a MS in Management from the London School of Economics.

Dave Herron, General Partner, was a Vice President and group manager for Robertson Stephens’ Energy Technology investment banking practice, which focused on companies involved in distributed generation, power quality and reliability, and advanced materials. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President at Van Kasper & Co. (now Wells Fargo Securities), where he worked on numerous transactions for environmental services and technology companies serving the solid, liquid, hazardous and radioactive waste markets. Dave currently sits on the board of portfolio company SunLink. Dave received a BA in English from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Dewey Chambers, CPA, serves as Clean Pacific Ventures Chief Financial Officer.