Brian Wayne

Managing Partner & Co-Founder at CurvePoint Capital Management

Panelist

Brian is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of CurvePoint Capital, a growth stage climate tech investment firm. CurvePoint focuses on investing in broadscale decarbonization themes through technology companies across areas of the built environment, distributed energy resources and advanced materials.

Prior to founding CurvePoint, Brian was the co-founder of the Aegon Climate Capital strategy at Aegon Asset Management, with a thesis of investing in companies solving the world’s most pressing issues related to the environment and society. Brian joined Aegon in 2017 to lead the design, development, and commercialization of numerous global investment businesses, with a specific emphasis on sustainability and impact-related solutions and was the co-chair of Aegon’s US Social Responsibility Committee.

Prior to Aegon, Brian spent a decade at Congress Asset Management investing in private equity and venture capital and was head of product strategy, deploying in excess of $1 billion across innovative ventures.

Brian also is the co-founder of The Water Genome. A 501(c)3 non-profit impact studio that focuses on identifying and catalyzing water technologies to solve health and climate resilience issues.

He is a member of The Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle, an expert advisor at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, and a startup mentor to the gener8tor sustainability program.