Galvanize Climate Solutions

John Kerry is Co-Executive Chairman at Galvanize Climate Solutions and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he leads climate and oceans initiatives. He served as the 68th U.S. Secretary of State and as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1985 to 2013, including a tenure as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Listed as an advisor; founder of Sutro Energy Group.

Tom Steyer is a co-founding investor who left his investing business to focus on progressive causes including climate change, voter mobilization, and racial justice. He founded NextGen America and was a former Democratic presidential candidate.

Evi Steyer co-leads Galvanize's early-stage climate fund, bringing practitioner-level regenerative agriculture experience from TomKat Ranch, advisory ties to the Oxford Smith School, and cross-asset sustainability pedigree from Generation and Astanor.

Katie Hall co-founded a climate-focused investment firm with Tom Steyer while leading a multi-family/endowment advisory platform, raising over $1 billion and building multi-asset strategies including profitable decarbonization of buildings.

Chris Creed is Managing Partner and Co-Head of Credit at Galvanize Climate Solutions. He previously served as Chief Investment Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, where he oversaw the obligation of more than $107 billion and the closing of over $60 billion in loans for energy projects, and spent over 20 years at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director and portfolio manager co-leading the MBS and securitized investment team, managing over $75 billion in assets. He holds an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics–Economics from Brown University and has chaired the board of trustees at St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Joseph Sumberg is Chief Medical Officer at AtaiBeckley, a role he assumed in 2025 after joining atai in 2021 as Vice President and later Senior Vice President of Clinical Development, where his responsibilities span clinical development, regulatory affairs, drug safety, biostatistics, global clinical operations, and early commercial activities. He previously held a faculty appointment at the Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge and began his industry career at P1vital, working on imaging and cognitive biomarkers for early-phase psychiatry trials. Sumberg earned his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand and an MPhil in Medical Science from the University of Cambridge, and holds specialist accreditation in addiction and adult psychiatry.

Suresh Vasan is a Partner at Galvanize, focusing on power, energy, and infrastructure investments. His background includes principal investing in debt and equity across the energy and infrastructure sectors, along with fundraising experience. His investment focus spans asset classes including CCGTs, wind, solar (PV/CSP), battery storage, virtual power plants, data centers, RNG, biofuels, hydrogen, gathering and processing, pipelines, gas storage, LNG regas and liquefaction, upstream, terminal storage, refineries, and EV charging infrastructure.

Cliff Ryan, co‑head of Innovation & Expansion, bridges early innovation and later-stage climate‑tech scaling, combining a decade in Riverstone energy private equity and an Executive‑in‑Residence role at Energy Impact Partners.

Saloni Multani offers a full-stack investor perspective from private and public equity to early- and late-stage climate investing, and applies CFO-honed experience running high-pressure, large-scale operations to scale climate companies.

Veery Maxwell has expertise in how law and regulation shape climate markets, focuses on hard-to-abate sectors like cement, and translates between founders, regulators, and financiers.

Anthony Cortese focuses on early-stage climate tech, connecting founders to broader climate capital and policy resources and convening food and agriculture-focused ecosystem events that link founders, investors, and sector experts.

Chloë Payne brings biomedicine and epidemiology training (Warwick, Imperial) and an Oxford MBA, focusing on pre-seed/seed climate startups at the nature–industry interface—food, agriculture, oceans, forestry—within a multi-strategy climate platform.

Christian Artmann is General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer at Galvanize Climate Solutions LLC. He has experience advising senior business executives and board members at the general counsel level, along with a background in investment banking and organizational leadership.

Coco Wei is Managing Partner and Co-Head of Credit at Galvanize Climate Solutions. She previously served as Chief Investment Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, where she obligated over $107 billion and closed more than $60 billion in loans to energy projects, and spent over 20 years at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director and portfolio manager, co-leading the MBS and Securitized investment team overseeing more than $75 billion in assets at GSAM. She holds an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University and has served as chair of the board of trustees at St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, MA.

David Livingston is a Venture Partner at AIN Ventures. He has more than a decade of experience in corporate development, venture capital, and strategic finance, with work spanning sourcing, evaluating, and executing investments and acquisitions across industries including AI, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and emerging technologies. His areas of focus include financial modeling, market analysis, and due diligence.

Kate Bassett is Vice President, Communications & Content at Galvanize, where she leads narrative and communications strategy for investment firms backing energy infrastructure and frontier technologies. Her work focuses on translating capital-intensive technologies such as grid buildouts, data centers, and advanced energy systems into communications directed at investors, regulators, and the public, with a growing emphasis on the energy, compute, and capital underlying AI at scale.

Michael Athanas is Vice President of Technology at Galvanize Climate Solutions, where his work covers infrastructure, security, and Salesforce. He designs and governs enterprise platforms, leads data and integration strategies, and manages vendor partnerships, working with executives and program owners to develop technology roadmaps and prioritize initiatives by business impact.

Philip Goldsmith is a Partner at Galvanize, focusing on power, energy, and infrastructure investments. His background includes global principal investing experience in debt and equity across the energy and infrastructure sectors, along with fundraising. His areas of coverage span assets such as CCGTs, wind, solar (PV/CSP), battery storage, virtual power plants, data centers, RNG, biofuels, hydrogen, gathering and processing, pipelines, gas storage, LNG regasification and liquefaction, upstream, terminal storage, refineries, and EV charging infrastructure.