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Avi Goldberg, co-founder and chief operating officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for managing all administrative, business development, legal, financial, and operational planning functions for the company. With close to ten years of start-up company experience, Mr. Goldberg brings a unique blend of strategic project management and entrepreneurial spirit to the company. In addition to GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Goldberg is a managing partner at GreatPoint Ventures, a specialized investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies. Since the firm’s inception in 2001, he has leveraged his extensive operational, business development, fundraising and recruiting experience to form and build an impressive portfolio of companies active in a broad spectrum of investment sectors including energy, biotech, telecom, material science and semiconductors. Collectively, these companies have raised in excess of $200M from some of the leading venture capital and private equity investors in the world. In 2001, Mr. Goldberg co-founded Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company developing novel polymer materials for use in the semiconductor industry. As the Chief Operating Officer and member of the board of directors, he was instrumental in assembling the executive team, securing venture and debt financing, and negotiating the acquisition of the company in June 2003 by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), the world’s largest manufacturer of flash memory chips. From 1998 through 2000, Mr. Goldberg served as director of worldwide sales & profit optimization for Cignal Global Communications, a pioneer in voice over data network communications, where he managed worldwide sales and cost containment for Cignal’s core business units, generating over $50 million a year in revenue. In 2000, Cignal was sold to United Pan-European Communications (NASDAQ: UCOMA), one of the largest cable operators in Europe. Mr. Goldberg graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Political Science and Strategic Intelligence. | 