Jonathan Naimon is a seasoned and pragmatic sustainable investor with growth equity, cleantech, and corporate venture experience. Sustana Cooling Partners is a first-of-its-kind platform designed to invest into innovative cooling and thermal management companies. Cooling uses more than 2x ...more

Jonathan Naimon is a seasoned and pragmatic sustainable investor with growth equity, cleantech, and corporate venture experience. Sustana Cooling Partners is a first-of-its-kind platform designed to invest into innovative cooling and thermal management companies. Cooling uses more than 2x the electric generation of wind and solar combined, but receives less than 1 percent the institutional investment. As a California pension fund’s 1st sustainable manager. Jonathan invested into Tesla at $16. Green alpha! Prior to CAlifornia, Jonathan sub-advised thematic investment strategies for EFG Bank (Sweden), UBS (Switzerland), Storebrand (Norway), Claymore (now Oppenheimer), environmental NGOs and trusts. Jonathan adapted a third-party finance model for merchant gas plants to solar PV for a start-up that grew to be the largest solar deployment company in the US before its bankruptcy. Third party finance structures enabled renewables to scale with institutional capital. Mr. Naimon advised AC analytics, food cooling, controlled agriculture, data center cooling, power electronics, energy storage, solar PV and solar thermal technology companies in Asia, Europe and North America. Targeting methane, Jonathan initiated a utility investment partnership to recover methane from landfills for conversion to electricity, Mr. Naimon co-authored a multi-sector cap and trade policy framework with the Progressive Policy Institute for a Congressional roundtable. Jonathan advised utilities on quality and pricing of voluntary carbon offsets. At the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), Jonathan developed and validated corporate E-risk metrics for S&P companies commonly owned by institutions. At Asea Brown Boveri (www.ABB.com) Jonathan led analysis of economic impacts of proposed EPA regulations on the US oil industry. He helped ABB corporate technology integrate an acquisition, and forged an agreement with US DOE to fund two technology demonstration projects. At ICF International (www.ICF.com), Jonathan managed economic analyses of regulation of CFCs that harm the ozone layer. He co-authored ICF papers on managing risk from engineered microbes. Mr. Naimon has an M.S.P.H. in Environmental Management from the University of North Carolina. His thesis was on Regulation of the first Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms in the USA. Mr. Naimon has a B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He learned about energy policy working for the Congressional Energy and Commerce Committee.less