SAIL was founded in 2002 as a pioneer in the cleantech investment sector and continues to be one of the sector's recognized thought leaders. Our comprehensive portfolio currently includes thirteen leading companies spanning the cleantech universe in the areas of energy storage and efficiency, renewable fuels, electrical efficiency and water purification.

In this era of profound changes in the way we produce and consume valuable resources, SAIL focuses on exceptional profit opportunities as a result of inefficiencies in the global markets. Our team of uniquely talented investors employs their decades of experience and cleantech-related networks to the most exciting investment opportunities.

SAIL's five Managing Partners are a diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, experienced investors, government insiders and seasoned venture capitalists. Our team's broad range of skills includes, but is not limited to:

• Operations
• Financing
• Deal structure
• Growing and managing successful organizations
• Legal expertise
• Energy & Environmental policy.

 Our industry backgrounds are equally diverse and encompass government, technology, environmental science, food & agriculture, energy, legal, safety and financial services.

SAIL Partner Hank Habicht has spent most of his professional career in business and investing. As a former Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. EPA and Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Environment & Natural Resources, Hank was instrumental in the inauguration of the U.S. Energy Star Program and implementation of market-based trading programs under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. During his tenure as a top executive for Dole Foods and Pacific Holding Company, SAIL Partner Alan Sellers led major negotiations, evaluated M&A transactions and spearheaded successful cost reduction and environmental programs.

The SAIL Difference
The ability to create a strongly supportive team, which engages the best resources of our networks, portfolio company leaders and co-investors in order to build value in our investments, is what differentiates SAIL. Through our networks we seek unique technologies, which will alter or create new markets, and and then work to successfully commercialize them. SAIL Partner Tom Cain is widely recognized for his ability to understand and foresee the practical applications of new technologies as well as the scalability issues of manufacturing new products. Tom is also skilled at pinpointing macro drivers in the US and around the globe that cause markets to converge around particular products and services.

We place significant value on both our Limited Partners and Portfolio company Management Teams, and consider them our extended Partners. We engage our Limited Partners in our investment process in creative ways that enhance value for all parties. Similarly, we seek out companies with strong, customer-focused management teams, and work closely with them to strengthen their businesses and make them more profitable.