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KELLY KRPATA
Director
Applied Materials Climate Prosperity Initiative
Kelly Krpata joined Joint Venture in June 2009 and serves as Director of the Applied Materials Climate Prosperity Initiative.
Building on Silicon Valley’s history of innovation, Joint Venture is working with business, government, academia, labor and the community to encourage the growth of our clean and green industries as they simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The strategy for this initiative – The Greenprint for Silicon Valley –provides the framework for a plan of action to insure that Silicon Valley is the leader in the clean energy revolution that will meet our current economic, environmental and energy challenges. The Climate Prosperity Initiative focuses on four areas based on the California Global Warming Solutions Act and the opportunity to leverage local resources: renewable energy, building efficiency, clean, convenient transportation and green infrastructure.
This effort is currently focused on the following project areas:
Kelly has over 9 years of experience in the private sector, where he worked in many capacities in the finance, clean technology and media industries. Prior to Joint Venture, he operated his own firm, Krpata Capital Partners, which provided capital advisory services to companies in the clean technology sector including the Electric Power Research Institute. Kelly formerly founded his own licensed apparel company and worked at Bear, Stearns & Co. in the Leveraged Finance Group. He also worked in media relations for the “Today” show and began his career as an NBC Page in New York.
An endurance trail runner, Krpata also survived a Grizzly bear mauling in Glacier National Park in 2000 and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain in 2001.
Mr. Krpata holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and a BA from Boston College.