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Princeton ACS Section Dinner Meeting
Monday, January 30, 2012
our guest speaker will be
Kyle
Teamey
CEO, Liquid Light Fuels, LLC.
“Dispatches from the Front:
Building a Clean Tech Start-up”
Social mixer, 5:30 pm in Frick Laboratory, Taylor Commons,
Princeton Univ. Presentation, 6:30 pm in the Auditorium
followed by dinner in Taylor Commons.
Abstract
Founded in 2009, Liquid Light, Inc is developing a carbon
dioxide conversion technology originally discovered by the
Bocarsly Group at Princeton University. Clean tech companies
like Liquid Light stand at the nexus of academia,
government, business, investors, and massive commodity
markets. Company CEO and co-founder, Kyle Teamey, will
describe the process of taking the company out of the
university and into the wild. Areas of emphasis will include
creating a business plan, building a team, securing private
and government funding, and technology transfer. Though
every start-up experience is a bit different, Liquid Light's
journey over the past several years may be of interest to
individuals interested in starting their own venture,
licensing their technology, or learning about life in an
early stage company.
Biography
Mr.
Kyle Teamey is the President of Liquid Light and a
co-founder. Mr. Teamey began working as an
entrepreneur-in-residence at Redpoint Ventures in 2008 with
the vision of developing a company that could make fuels
from renewable energy with no reliance on biological
feedstocks. Prior to joining Liquid Light, Mr. Teamey served
as a Managing Director of Dunia Frontier Consultants, where
he oversaw due diligence and market studies for investments
in renewable energy and clean technologies, and co-founded
Switch, a renewable energy projects company. He also worked
as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) assisting in the development of new
technologies for the military, including TiGR, which was
acquired by General Dynamics. Mr. Teamey was previously an
officer in the U.S. Army, where he served in leadership and
management roles in the United States and abroad.
Mr.
Teamey received a B.A. in Environmental Engineering at
Dartmouth College, where he worked in the laboratory of
Professor Lee Lynd (Mascoma) developing biofuels. He also
holds a M.A. in Finance and Energy Policy from Johns Hopkins
University.
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