Temple Fennell

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clean Energy Ventures

Speaker

Temple Fennell has more than 20 years of experience as a company founder, investor, and fund manager. Temple is a family member of Keller Enterprises, a single-family office active Renewable Energy, Clean Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Racial Justice, and seeks to support underrepresented Fund Manager. Keller was one of the early families of the CREO Syndicate that now has ~200 families from around the world that invest in Clean Renewable Energy Opportunities (CREO). Temple founded and operated three companies that were funded by private investors and institutional investors (New Enterprise Associates, Oak Investment Partners, Pearson Education and others). Temple most recently served as a full-time strategic advisor for Flagship Ventures, a technology firm that develops technology companies to solve global problems and transform large markets in the energy, water, food and human health sectors. Temple is the co-founder and co-director of the “Impact Investing for the Next Generation” program created in 2015 at the Kennedy’s Center for Public Leaderships to train Next Gen family office members to implement impact investing into their family’s investment strategy. Temple began his career as a Management Consultant at KMPG in New York and as an analyst for leveraged buy-out firm, Clinton Capital Corporation. Mr. Fennell holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, an MBA as a MIT Sloan Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a senior fellow at the University of Zurich.