Libby Wayman

Lecturer

2020

Co-teach MIT Climate & Energy Ventures MIT 15.366 Climate & Energy Ventures is a project- and curriculum-based course that provides an opportunity for teams of engineering, business, and policy students from MIT and Harvard to create a new venture in energy and/or sectors that can address climate change. Objectives of the class are to provide a framework for commercializing innovations and starting businesses in these sectors, and to create the opportunity to launch a venture around a concept brought to or developed in the class.

Partner

2018

$1B+ fund founded by Bill Gates, John Doerr, Vinod Khosla, John Arnold, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and others to fund innovations that can address climate change. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is an investor-led fund made up of members of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, guided by scientific and technological expertise and committed to investing patiently in developing new ways to live, eat, travel and build.

Global Director, Ecomagination

2015 - 2018

Director, Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative

2013 - 2015

Senior Advisor, Manufacturing

2012 - 2015

Head of Engineering Group

2010 - 2012

Led design of pilot manufacturing line and transfer of solar cell fabrication process from R&D to pilot production

Technical Lead, Solar Cell Research & Development

2009 - 2010

Led solar cell R&D process integration

R&D Engineer, PV Systems

2008 - 2009

Utility-scale solar product development

Co-Founder, Board Director

2006 - 2008

Spin out from MIT on remote energy systems Formed Prometheam Power to commercialize the technology

Environmental Engineering Intern

2001 - 2001

Materials study to meet the EU recyclability directive