Overview

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Herve joined Aster Capital in March 2016 as Venture Advisor. He is in charge of sourcing funds and deals in the US energy sector. In parallel to Aster, Herve is a Managing Director at the Rocky Mountain Institute. He focuses his work on disruptive business models and technologies in the electricity sector and mechanisms to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy by large corporations. He is also an advisor for and angel investor in cleantech startups in Europe and North America.

Herve held several senior positions at E.ON, Germany’s leading utility. He was global MD of the solar and biomass businesses at E.ON Climate & Renewables. He founded and was the first CEO of E.ON Connecting Energies, E.ON’s distributed energy business. E.ON received the prize of “Best European Greentech Company” in 2013 for his work. Earlier, Herve served as a leading expert and advisor for the energy sector with McKinsey & Co.

Herve received a M.S. in Mathematics from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. In his early engineering career, he authored more than 20 technical papers, was recipient of one IEEE Best Paper Award and one US patent. He is fluent in French and English.