Richard Stuebi has more than 20 years of experience as an executive, entrepreneur, and consultant in the energy industry, with most of the past decade focused on advanced energy technologies and business opportunities.

Based in Cleveland, he splits his time between private sector and civic activities to accelerate commercial activity in advanced energy technologies in the surrounding region.  He is a managing director at Early Stage Partners, a Cleveland -based venture capital firm, where he leads the firm's activities to invest in promising ventures developing and commercializing advanced energy and environmental technologies.  He is also the Fellow for Energy and Environmental Advancement at The Cleveland Foundation, on loan to NorTech as a founding principal in its advanced energy initiative Energy Enterprise, where he works with a broad spectrum of interests across all sectors of the economy to promote greater adoption and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Northeast Ohio.

In 1999, Richard founded NextWave Energy, a professional firm providing a wide variety of services including strategy and capital formation to help client companies capitalize on new business opportunities involving innovative energy technologies. Previously, he was a senior vice president at the global commodity trading firm Louis Dreyfus, a management consultant in the energy practice of McKinsey & Co., and an economic analyst at ICF Resources.

Richard serves on the board of EnLink Geoenergy Services and MAR Systems, and is a member of the advisory board of the Generation Foundation.  He is a frequent speaker on energy and environmental topics, and he shares his perspectives weekly at www.cleantechblog.com.

Richard holds degrees in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.