10 years entrepreneurial, fundraising, and PR/marketing experience in the environmental sector, with in-depth knowledge of the cleantech industry, carbon markets and the low-carbon economy. Michael has advised numerous international investors, High-Net-Worth-Individuals, companies, entrepreneurs, and celebrities on developing innovative commercial solutions to climate change.
Michael is currently helping three ventures (SunSupermarket, Mootral and THE VOTE) and was featured in THE TIMES in April 2008. Michael has incubated, created and developed several global innovative initiatives to raise awareness about climate change including:
- Global-Cool: celebrity-led campaign: Sienna Miller, Josh Hartnett, KT Tunstall etc...).
- Climate Change Now: the first renewable energy switching tool, supported by UNEP, European Environment Agency, Ben & Jerry's & Aveda, and managed to convince David Cameron and his Conservative Party to switch to renewable electricity.
- In 2007, first entrepreneur to organise a global concert on climate change called the One Earth Concert with the help of Brian Eno. This was ahead of its time and did not happen, but paved the way for another event: LiveEarth.
- In 2006, first person to tour 16 European capitals in a hybrid car, sponsored by Honda, BP, and Hilton, to encourage Europeans to switch to renewable electricity.
- In 2004, he was the Founder of Susten8, (dubbed by the Financial Times as the ‘Green First Tuesday’), a network of more than 2’000 entrepreneurs and investors in the sustainability sector, that organised the first climate change conference in London.
He holds a BA, from Hamilton College, NY, USA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce (RSA) & Unltd* the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, where he won a Millennium Prize for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. Michael is a French citizen, with Cambodian and Ukrainian origins and brought up in Switzerland.
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