


Jason Salfi has been a sustainability focused investor, entrepreneur and consultant for over 25 years. In 1997, he founded Comet Skateboards, a pioneering B Corporation which became an early leader in the use of sustainable materials and manufacturing approaches. After selling the company in 2014, he consulted with several Fortune 500 companies on creating regenerative and profitable business models. Work for these companies included lean manufacturing consulting, product design standards, and acquisition strategy. In 2019, Jason served as an Innovation Advisor for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and he sits on the Board for Scale for Climate Tech - a manufacturing readiness company that specializes in helping companies span the chasms of moving from design to manufacture. Jason holds a degree in Natural Resource Management from Cornell University.

Bruce Logue holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from UT Austin. He joined SGCE in 2007 working on Front End Engineering Design for refining applications. Bruce designed Aromatic extraction technology units for two major expansion projects, debottlenecking of FCC reactors and designs for Crude and Vacuum distillation units. He also held positions with SGC Energia and Juniper Specialty Products which worked on process technology licensing, project development and execution of Fischer Tropsch based technologies. He served as Plant Principal Process Engineer and was responsible for commissioning and operations of an FT demonstration plant. In 2020, Bruce earned his MBA from WGU and joined Novetus Engineering as Account Manager where he supported owner operators in the energy and specialty chemicals industries by providing engineering services for design, operations and process safety management.

Dassance Raymond brings twenty years of management experience to Dimensional Energy, spanning several diverse fields. Most recently, she spent 10+ years at the environmental powerhouse Sierra Club. During her tenure as Associate Director of Executive Administration and Board Relations, she oversaw operations of the 15-person Board and ran the annual election in which over 800,000 members elected the volunteer Board. She managed the Executive Department and ran Sierra Club’s 200+ person Annual Awards, celebrating environmental champions, celebrities, and elected officials. Prior to that, she served for five years as General Manager of Radio Perfecto Rotisserie in Manhattan and was an AEA Stage Manager for the off-Broadway playhouse The Pearl Theatre, among others. Dassance holds a degree in Theatrical Studies and Management.

John Santoleri has over 30 years of finance, strategy, and business development expertise. Since 2016, he has focused exclusively on early and growth-stage investments in climate technology as a Venture Partner with Clean Energy Ventures, a $400 million institutional venture fund. His previous roles include Innovation Advisor for NYSERDA and director positions on various for-profit and nonprofit boards. As a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, John invested over $800 million in equity and raised an additional $1 billion in financing for portfolio companies across multiple sectors. He also co-founded and managed StoneWork Partners, an ethically-oriented long/short public equity fund. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Siobhan Foley brings to Dimensional Energy 15 years’ experience in policy and programs to address climate change. Most recently, she supported 96 global cities as Head of Climate Action on Urban Consumption for C40, served as technical advisor for C40 North American cities; and developed New Orleans' first climate action plan as a FUSE fellow. Previously, Siobhan led market facilitation and policy initiatives at the Center for Sustainable Energy to drive public adoption of clean energy solutions. She also worked with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation on voluntary renewable energy markets and solar education. Siobhan holds an M.P.A in sustainability management from the Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Bradley Brennan, PhD, has 20+ years in CO2 catalytic conversion, thermal storage, electrochemistry, nanotechnology, solar energy, and chemicals/materials/catalyst synthesis with 25+ peer-reviewed papers and patents. Educated and trained at Caltech, Yale, and Arizona State University, he started his industry career developing formulations for the semiconductor sector. While at Yale, he helped start their Energy Sciences Institute, and was previously a member of the NSF-funded Center for Innovation in Solar Fuels and the DOE-funded Bioinspired Solar Fuels Energy Frontier Research Center. A lifelong advocate for sustainable energy, he has used his broad technology background and problem-solving skills to develop DE’s strong innovation portfolio.

John Brenner has 25+ years of experience in business development, financing, IP, joint ventures, product development, and distribution across biotech, high tech, ag tech, food tech, and 3D metal printing. John was VP for IP Management and Licensing at Rheonix where he was a member of the founding team which spun out of Kionix, Inc. John was a senior technology manager at Cornell University’s technology licensing office and was the founder and president of Aureus Inc., specializing in financial and organizational solutions for technology-based companies. He is a Certified Licensing Professional and holds a B.S. in plant science from the University of New Hampshire, an M.S. in science education from Syracuse University and an MBA from Cornell University.

Sebastian Hunt-Farmer is an operations leader with broad experience overseeing plant operations and production across multiple sites. He directs and coordinates cross-functional teams — including Operations Managers, Engineers, and HSSE professionals — to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable performance. Sebastian has a strong track record leading plant start-ups, turnarounds, and project execution from construction through handover, and brings a data-driven approach to tracking KPIs, optimizing production output, and driving continuous improvement. He works closely with executive leadership on strategy, budgets, and production forecasts, while also managing external contractors and vendor deliverables to keep complex operations running smoothly.

Stephen Dee brings more than 40 years of hands-on experience with Fischer-Tropsch waxes to his role at Dimensional Energy, spanning manufacturing, R&D, and marketing and sales. He serves as the primary introduction point for wax customers, working closely with the Product team to highlight the unique attributes of the company's low- and zero-carbon FT wax portfolio. From coordinating performance testing at independent labs to guiding customers through product qualification, Stephen ensures that Dimensional Energy's products meet real-world specifications and requirements. His deep expertise also informs the company's broader commercial efforts, including branding, packaging, logistics, supply chain strategy, and technical marketing materials.

David Erickson is the SC Thomas Sze Director and the Sibley College Professor of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and joint Professor within the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. His research focuses on: mobile and global health technology, microfluidics, photonics, and nanotechnology. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto. Research in the Erickson lab is primarily funded through grants from the NSF, NIH, ARPA-E, ONR, DOE, DOD, and various foundations.
Prof. Erickson has helped to found numerous start-up companies commercializing: high-throughput nanoparticle analysis instrumentation, biomedical diagnostics, and energy technologies including Halo Labs (http://halolabs.com), VitaScan (http://vitascan.me) and Dimensional Energy (https://www.dimensionalenergy.net/). Dr. Erickson has received the DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, among others. In 2011 he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. For his efforts in co-founding the field of optofluidics, Erickson has been named a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Justin Heyman is a Managing Director at The RockCreek Group, where he leads investments in growth-stage companies advancing the energy transition, resource efficiency, and next-generation infrastructure. He brings more than 15 years of experience investing in and supporting companies that reshape legacy industrial systems to be more resilient, efficient, and sustainable.
Prior to RockCreek, Justin was a Managing Director at Global Environment Fund, where he co-led the firm’s U.S. growth equity strategy focused on environmental sustainability solutions. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, advising energy, transportation, manufacturing, and private equity clients on corporate strategy. Justin holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He also serves on the board of the Sandra Lee Heyman Foundation, which promotes access to STEM careers.

Yong Hyun Kim is Managing Partner of Envisioning Partners, an impact venture capital firm based in Seoul, Korea. Envisioning Partners invests in startups that provide innovative solutions to the important environmental and social issues of our times. Envisioning Partners invests in the domains of climate, wellness, education and the future of work, and invests in Asia and US. Prior to joining Envisioning Partners, Yong was CEO of Hanwha Asset Management, the third largest asset management company in Korea. Hanwha Asset Management invests in global equities and fixed income, ETF, global asset allocation solutions and alternative investments (including venture, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private credit) with assets under management of approximately US$90 billion and has offices in Korea, US, Singapore, China and Vietnam.
Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Alternative Investment Department at Hanwha Life Insurance (formerly Korea Life Insurance). He also worked for Carlyle Asia Buyout as head of the Korea office; Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, as an investment banker; and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, a law firm in New York, as a corporate lawyer. Yong received a B.A. with honors in Physics, Phi Beta Kappa, from The University of Chicago, J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and M.B.A., Beta Gamma Sigma, from Columbia Business School.

Elisa Miller-Out is an experienced tech entrepreneur, investor, board director and community builder. She is managing partner of Chloe Capital, a seed stage VC firm focused on investing with a gender and diversity lens. She's also an Innovation Advisor and serves on the Climate Action Council at NYSERDA. She is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell University and mentors for 76West, StartFast, NEXUS-NY and LaunchNY. Elisa recently had a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is now chair of the board and CFO at Singlebrook. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education and nonprofit clients from all over the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund and more. Elisa has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes and other publications, and she speaks about technology and entrepreneurship at events across the country.
In addition to serving as chair on the private company board of Singlebrook, the business she co-founded, Elisa has served on several private for profit and non-profit boards including: GatheringUs, Climate Action Council, Women 2.0, StartFast Code, ConvergeUS, CSRwire, Local First Ithaca, NY Society of Association Executives, and Barnard Young Alumnae. She looks forward to bringing her innovation strategy, robust network, finance knowledge and operating experience to other boards.
Prior to founding Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in NYC. She also founded several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. When she’s not working, Elisa enjoys local foods, Crossfit, swimming in waterfalls, reading and spending time with her husband and two daughters and her big extended family. Learn more: elisamillerout.com.

Investor with an enthusiastic focus on climate, impact, and sustainability. Mr. Rubenstein has invested in dozens of companies directly both professionally (as a corporate strategic investor and as a venture fund manager) and on behalf of himself and his family’s alternative investment strategy. He takes a collaborative approach to investing and believes in supporting early-stage companies by sharing his knowledge and network. As Managing Partner of New Climate Ventures, current investment focus is on carbon reduction and avoidance which includes but is not limited to climate tech, the circular economy, and food/ag tech.























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