David Danielson is leaving venture capital firm
Danielson will move to Washington, D.C., to become part of the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, a program created by the U.S. Congress in 2007 to support transformational energy research projects. The Obama Administration has allocated $400 million to the ARPA-E as part of the economic stimulus package.
“David got approached to help get ARPA-E off the ground, and I can’t think of a better person to do it,” says Hemant Taneja, a managing director with General Catalyst. Taneja adds that Danielson will no longer have an official role with General Catalyst due to potential conflicts of interest, and that the firm is looking for a replacement on its cleantech team.
Danielson joined General Catalyst in mid-2007 as a senior associate, with a focus on advanced materials and cleantech opportunities. He had previously performed doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in clean energy materials, taught several courses on cleantech, founded the MIT Energy Club and co-founded the MIT Energy Conference and the New England Clean Energy Council. Prior to MIT, Danielson spent time at Applied Materials, IBM and Intel. —Dan Primack
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