Find Findsen

Find Findsen serves as the Chairman and CEO of Green Economy Group - home of the Terawatt Exchange.

Find Findsen serves as Chairman and CEO of Green Economy Group, home of the Terawatt Exchange, a global research platform with listings that have a combined value of US$2.8 trillion and an aggregate generating capacity of 2,003 gigawatts (2 terawatts) across 42 sectors ranging from solar, wind, and hydro to smart grid, energy storage, green buildings, REDD+, green AI, green blockchain and negative emissions technologies. Green Economy Group is committed to ending climate change by reducing global temperatures to zero degrees Celsius (0° C) above pre-industrial levels and reducing the carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere to the 280 parts per million level during the 10,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution. As a technology company, GEG intends to deliver on this vision of a global net-zero economy powered 100 percent by renewables by serving - through the Terawatt Exchange and other initiatives - as a catalyst for making the annual multi-trillion dollar investments required to achieve this goal. The Terawatt Exchange (TWX) is designed for marketing, sales, and business development professionals in technology and service providers that are looking to identify project development firms and cleantech companies to sell their products and services to. It is also ideal for investors conducting market research and due diligence or policymakers assessing the growth and scale of the 42 sectors of the green economy across countries and regions to develop and implement policies and incentives designed to deliver on net-zero national, regional, and global objectives. GEG has also developed a proprietary database of institutional investors focused on green investments with aggregate assets under management (AUM) exceeding US$100 trillion.   Find Findsen previously advised the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the negotiation, establishment and operations of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) which was formed jointly by the World Bank, UNDP and the United Nations Environment Programme. UNDP-GEF has invested US$12.8 billion since 1991 in a GEF portfolio that has financed 1,000 environmental and renewable energy projects in over 140 countries worldwide. In addition — on behalf of UNDP — Find Findsen served as the lead negotiator with Swiss Re and Harvard Medical School to create an innovative two-year research and risk management partnership between the three institutions entitled Climate Change Futures. Find Findsen also developed, launched and served as the first head of the UNDP MDG Carbon Facility. Find Findsen raised the initial funding; recruited the first technical, legal and business teams; managed the launch of the UNDP MDG Carbon Facility at which the World Bank announced an order for $20 million carbon credits from the MDG Carbon Facility; secured binding written bids from more than half of the world's top 15 investment banks to purchase carbon credits worth over $100 million from the UNDP MDG Carbon Facility (subject only to each respective bank winning the highly competitive carbon tender program); successfully coordinated the tender process to select the winning external investment bank and turned the project over to UNDP-GEF senior management.   Find Findsen previously served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he advised senior management teams in the financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and electronics sectors. His engagements focused on M&A, sales force management, cost reductions, and building new business units. Find Findsen also held senior leadership positions in several consulting and technology firms. At age 13, Find Findsen wrote the code for a clone of the popular video game Breakout.   Find Findsen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University where he received the Buchanan Prize for graduating #1 in the Department of Politics. At Princeton, he was a member of Tower Club, served as Treasurer of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, was a writer and International Conference Director at Business Today and served as the President of Rainforest Conservancy. His name is pronounced "Finn" as in Huckleberry Finn.  

Chairman and CEO at Green Economy Group

May 2010 - Present | Denmark

Find Findsen serves as Chairman and CEO of Green Economy Group, home of the Terawatt Exchange, a global research platform with listings that have a combined value of US$2.8 trillion and an aggregate generating capacity of 2,003 gigawatts (2 terawatts) across 42 sectors ranging from solar, wind, and hydro to smart grid, energy storage, green buildings, REDD+, green AI, green blockchain and negative emissions technologies. Green Economy Group is committed to ending climate change by reducing global temperatures to zero degrees Celsius (0° C) above pre-industrial levels and reducing the carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere to the 280 parts per million level during the 10,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution. As a technology company, GEG intends to deliver on this vision of a global net-zero economy powered 100 percent by renewables by serving - through the Terawatt Exchange and other initiatives - as a catalyst for making the annual multi-trillion dollar investments required to achieve this goal. The Terawatt Exchange (TWX) is designed for marketing, sales, and business development professionals in technology and service providers that are looking to identify project development firms and cleantech companies to sell their products and services to. It is also ideal for investors conducting market research and due diligence or policymakers assessing the growth and scale of the 42 sectors of the green economy across countries and regions to develop and implement policies and incentives designed to deliver on net-zero national, regional, and global objectives. GEG has also developed a proprietary database of institutional investors focused on green investments with aggregate assets under management (AUM) exceeding US$100 trillion.

Harvard Business School

1996 – 1998

MBA

Princeton University

1989 – 1993

A.B.

Concentration: Find graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University where he received the Buchanan Prize for graduating #1 in the Department of Politics.

Activities: Tower Club, Foundation for Student Communication / Business Today Magazine, GSR, Rainforest Conservancy and the American Whig–Cliosophic Society.

Family, hiking, technology, cleantech, scientific breakthroughs, history, organic food and world travel.