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Joel Serface is the Director of the Austin Clean Energy Incubator, the first entity of its kind focused on renewable energy technologies. With an extensive track record as an environmental engineer pioneering cleantech investments and shaping public policy, Serface brings to CEI a wealth of expertise and experience in generating and nurturing clean energy innovations. Prior to joining ATI, Joel served as Partner at Eastman Ventures, leading the company’s cleantech investments. Serface was a Director at Sierra Ventures where he led its first energy technology investments. He has also served as a management consultant with Ernst & Young and as a software industry analyst at AMR Research. Serface focused his studies on environmental engineering while serving as a legislative assistant in the Texas Senate Natural Resources Committee and as an environmental engineer for Dow Chemical. Joel holds an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He serves on numerous industry advisory boards and non-profits including: Technology Ventures Corporation, Texas Nanotech Initiative, Environmental Entrepreneurs, California Nanosystems Institute Advisory Board, and the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (California). | 