Team
The founders of Resourcient bring together more than five decades of diverse experience from investing in, founding and leading, advising, and operating resourcient companies.
Stephan Dolezalek has worked with entrepreneurial companies since the 1980s. He has been a technology investor since 2002, first in clean energy and more recently in food and agriculture. He is currently a Managing Partner at Grosvenor Food & AgTech. Previously, he led the VantagePoint Capital Partners' CleanTech Group from its inception. Collectively, the group made 42 clean technology investments totaling $1 billion. Under his leadership the Firm’s CleanTech practice was several times named CleanTech Investor of the Year (most recently in 2013). He is a Non-Executive Director and member of the Investment Committee of Wheatsheaf Investments Ltd, a Grosvenor Estate investment entity focused on investing in companies developing innovative solutions in the food, energy and water security sectors. He is also a Senior advisor to The Broadscale Group, a network of large utilities and energy companies focused on accelerating innovation through strategic partnerships with the most promising new companies in the sector.
Prior to joining VantagePoint in 1999, he spent 16 years as a corporate and securities attorney, lastly as Chairman of the Life Sciences Group and Managing Partner for the Palo Alto office of then 900-lawyer Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. He has served as a Foundation Board Member for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia and on the advisory boards of a variety of clean energy organizations including Rocky Mountain Institute's eLab, The CleanTech Group, the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Energy Management and Innovation Center of the University of Texas, McCombs School of Business. Stephan also organized and ran the annual ResourcePoint CleanTech Summit, a private conference for thought and industry leaders in CleanTech.
In his 40+ years of working with entrepreneurial technology companies, Stephan has helped start, grow and scale companies in the computing, tele- and datacomm, biotechnology and clean energy industries. He has helped "raise" five "unicorns, with one of those growing to decacorn status and one to hectocorn level and beyond, now being one of only seven venture-backed companies to be worth more than one-trillion dollars. At VantagePoint, Stephan led both the Life Sciences and Software practice groups before founding the Firm’s Clean Technology practice in 2002.
Stephan holds a Bachelor in City Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Martin Lagod co-founded Firelake Capital Management in 2002 and built and led the Firm’s private investment practice. Through two funds, Firelake deployed more than $175M into two dozen portfolio companies.
Marty’s investment experience includes solar and energy storage, food security, water, carbon markets, refrigerants, biochemical/fuels, and industrial materials and metals. Marty has spent the last two years developing new investment models to address financing and execution risk through improved governance and investment structures.
He served as Co-Chair of the Clean Economy Network and on the Board of the Advanced Energy Economy. Previously, Marty was the co-founder and CEO of Solo Energy Corporation which developed technology for distributed generation of power for the commercial and light industrial sectors.
For the previous 19 years, Marty was an intellectual property attorney based in Silicon Valley, first as a partner in the Palo Alto office of Phoenix-based Brown and Bain, and then at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto. He holds two patents related to the distributed generation of power. Marty holds a BA in Economics, with Honors, from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and a JD from Vanderbilt University.