- Name: Find
- Surname: Findsen
- Location: Cayman Islands
- About Me: Find Findsen serves as the CEO of Kolibri Group / Kolibri Capital, a carbon and renewable energy project development firm. Kolibri was appointed as a founding member of the independent Barclays Capital Global Carbon Index Committee and was a Supporting Underwriter of the UN Investor Summit on Climate Risk, a group of over 450 institutional investors representing more than $22 trillion in assets under management. Find Findsen is also the Chairman of Green Economy Group, a provider of green economy news, events, research and advisory services. Green Economy Group has over 50,000 followers, subscribers and readers in 160 countries, all 50 US states and 2,900 cities worldwide. The company is currently in stealth mode with "dummy content" on its website. The beta site will be released at the end of Q3 2012. Find Findsen also serves on the Advisory Board of SV Green Tech Corp, a vertically integrated solar company based in Silicon Valley which manufactures high-quality PV solar cells and solar modules, installs solar power plants and develops solar projects worldwide.
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 the World Bank, UNDP and the United Nations Environment Programme. UNDP-GEF manages a $6 billion GEF portfolio that finances 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 which culminated in a groundbreaking research report. 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 before joining Kolibri.
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.
Find Findsen graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University where he received the Buchanan Prize for graduating #1 in the Department of Politics. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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