Board of Directors
Amol joined KPCB in April 2008 and focuses on opportunities in green technology with specific emphasis on fuels, chemicals, water, waste and environmental technologies.
While at KPCB Amol has been involved with the firm’s first water investment and also incubated Harvest Power, a venture focused on next generation organics recycling.
Prior to KPCB, Amol spent 3 years as a director and associate at Black River and Cargill Ventures, both investment oriented business units of the private agribusiness, Cargill, Inc. While at Cargill, Amol focused on Greentech investment throughout the energy, water and agricultural supply chain. Amol was directly involved with investments and initiatives in multiple Greentech verticals including solar, next generation fuels, sustainable agriculture, industrial biotech, waste/environmental sciences and carbon markets. Amol was also responsible for maintaining relationships with key innovative business units within Cargill and tracking innovation in Greentech both inside and outside of the organization. Prior to Cargill, Amol was an entrepreneur having founded an agricultural biotechnology company focused on novel germplasm in high value vegetable crops as well as companies in the water sector and educational services sector. In this, Amol has experience in writing business plans, fundraising and guiding strategy for new enterprises at all stages of development.
Amol has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Amol also has an MBA from Cornell University where he was a Park Fellow, receiving a full tuition merit based scholarship based on future leadership potential in business world.
Ajit joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2003. His areas of investment focus
are Greentech, New Materials and Enterprise IT. Ajit also leads KPCB’s India in-
vestment initiative. He presently is a director on the board of 10 companies and is
a board observer at 4 additional companies. Previously Ajit was either an observer
or a director on the board of 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Virsa (acquired by SAP),
Visible Path (acquired by D&B) and InfoEdge (IPO in 2006).
Ajit came to KPCB from SAP. At SAP he worked for Dr. Hasso Plattner, CEO, Chairman and co-founder, SAP. He co-founded SAPMarkets in 2000, a fully owned company of SAP, and was Managing Director of SAPMarkets. In 2002, he was SVP of SAP's New Venture Unit, SAP Inspire. Prior to SAP, Ajit worked in the medical device industry, first at Zimmer, Inc., a division of Bristol Myers and Squibb, and then at Mathys AG (Synthes) in Switzerland. Ajit has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Poona (COEP), India. He holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech, a PhD in Biomechanics from the Technical University of Hanover, Germany and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Paul is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Harvest Power, Inc. Paul has
been a leader in the organics industry for more than 25 years. In 1982, he founded
Earthgro, Inc., which grew to be the second largest producer of compost-based
lawn and garden products in North America. Paul has also been a senior executive
with Synagro Technologies, Inc. He has also founded and led International Process
Systems, Inc. a composting technology provider (principal patent holder). Paul
graduated from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Tim is a managing director in the Organic Growth Group of Waste Management where he is responsible
for originating and commercializing innovation that is synergistic to Waste Management. The focus of
such innovation is in creating value from waste streams by converting them to energy, fuels and
chemicals, as well as commercializing innovations that enable the recycle and reuse of waste materials.
Prior to joining Waste Management, Tim was the President of Koch Genesis where he led the corporate
venturing effort to originate and commercialize innovation that was external to the research and devel-
opment effort of Koch Industries. Currently, Tim sits on the board of directors for Terrabon, Inc.,
MicroGreen Polymers and Harvest Power Inc. He received a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engin-
eering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master's degree in Business from Pepperdine
University.
Rolf Nagel was Partner and Investment Manager at Star Ventures, a leading international Venture Capital firm, for more than ten years. In this position, he was instrumental in numerous success stories, such as Capstone Microturbines, Ciena, Floware (now Alvarion), Medigene, RF Micro Devices and Sequenom.
Prior to Star Ventures, Mr. Nagel was Investment Manager at the Deutsche Bank investment arm DBG.
Prior to Deutsche Bank Group, he served as the CEO of Vialog Visual Inspection Systems, Hanover, Germany. After repositioning it successfully, Vialog was acquired by Walter AG, Tübingen, a leading German engineering firm.
Mr. Nagel holds an MBA from WHU Koblenz and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, and he completed a scholarship at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, USA.