Jason R. Blumberg

Biography

Jason is Co-founder & Managing Partner at Earth Foundry, an early-stage venture capital fund that has backed some of the most transformative cleantech and energy companies, cutting gigatons of CO2 and billions of pounds of plastic. Ranked as one of the top cleantech VC firms in the US and world, Earth Foundry partners include leading corporations and research institutions.

He frequently speaks on energy and cleantech and has been featured by numerous media outlets including NBC, New York Times, Entrepreneur, PBS, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Jerusalem Post, INC and Bangkok Post. NBC named him one its top “Eco-preneurs”.

For the last decade Jason has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, teaching MBAs and PhDs how to turn science into high growth businesses.  Jason is a Board member for an array of high growth companies and is on the Advisory Boards of leading research institutions and innovation hubs.

Prior to Earth Foundry, Jason co-founded Energy Results, where he was the company’s CEO.  At Energy Results he built a leading residential energy business, which gained market traction and was adopted by industry leaders such as Best Buy.  Jason also worked at McKinsey & Co. where he was a member of the firm’s Energy & Climate Change leadership teams.  Earlier in his career, Jason worked for the CEO of GVW Holdings, an industrial and transportation platform of the Carlyle Group, where he led direct investments and was an active Board Member of GVW’s portfolio companies.  Prior to GVW, Jason served as Vice President of Corporate Development at the Interpublic Group.  Jason’s other experience includes working for Sterling Partners and the Transaction Advisory Group at Arthur Andersen.

 He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he received the Dean’s Award of Distinction and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University.

Academic Areas

• Entrepreneurship