Todd Jaquez-Fissori

Todd Jaquez-Fissori joined the company in November 2009 and currently is a Senior Managing Director and Group Head of our Energy Technology group. He is responsible for the firm’s energy technology investment strategy, including the sectors as well as the stages we invest in. Before joining Hercules in 2009, he served as a director at TriplePoint Capital and was the general partner in charge of cleantech investing at Siemens Venture Capital. He was formerly a principal at Boulder Ventures and an analyst at Mayfield. In the last 15 years he has worked with a broad range of cleantech companies as an investor and board member. He received a B.A. from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. Jaquez-Fissori is the founder of NextGen Partners of Silicon Valley, an organization of 850 venture capitalists in the major venture markets dedicated to the growth and development of the industry’s pre-partner level venture capitalists. He is also a member of the TiE Cleantech Association and is on the advisory board of the Cleantech Group (http://www.cleantech.com). In November, 2012, he was honored as a Power Player in the Greentech list, honoring the champions of entrepreneurship who are helping the Global Silicon Valley dominate today’s green technology marketplace by AlwaysOn (http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2012-Power-Players-Greentech).