ANDREW L. SHAPIRO, Founder & Managing Partner
Andrew L. Shapiro has spent three decades working at the nexus of new technologies and societal transformation, with a focus since 2000 on sustainable technology and innovation and before that on information technology and globalization. Andrew has invested in, advised, and/or served on boards of more than 25 startups and growth-companies. He has served as an advisor to C-suite leaders at more than 100 enterprises, including some of the world’s largest energy and industrial companies. Andrew has been a technology thought leader for more than two decades, an author of books that have appeared in multiple languages, and an Ivy League university lecturer.
Andrew is the Founder and Managing Partner of Broadscale, an investment firm that he launched in 2012. Broadscale works with leading corporations, family offices, and other strategic partners to invest in and commercialize the most promising market-ready innovations focused on the energy transition, advanced transportation, and sustainable technologies generally. Broadscale differentiates itself by both: (1) sourcing strategic investments, partnerships, and acquisitions for its Corporate Network, whose members have included Baker Hughes, BP, Duke Energy, Engie, Equinor, General Electric, Johnson Controls, National Grid, Panasonic, Shell, and SK Group, and (2) acting as General Partner for a network of more than 150 family-office and high-net-worth individual LPs, with which it has made more than a dozen venture and growth equity investments. Andrew’s deep relationships with corporate leaders and reputation as a pioneer in sustainable business have enabled him and Broadscale to invest in preeminent sustainable technology companies such as Arcadia, Blink Charging (BLNK), Generate Capital, Measurabl, M-KOPA, Revel, and Via Transportation.
Prior to founding Broadscale, Andrew built and led GreenOrder from 2000 to 2011, a strategic advisory firm that worked with more than 100 enterprises to make energy and environmental innovation a source of competitive advantage. At GreenOrder, Andrew worked with GE’s leadership for more than a decade on the creation and execution of its multi-billion dollar ecomagination initiative; counseled General Motors for five years on strategic issues including the launch of its first mass-market electric vehicle; and served as the green advisor for 7 World Trade Center, New York City’s first LEED-certified office tower. Other clients included Alcan, Allianz, Bloomberg, BP, Bunge, Citi, Coca-Cola, Dell, Disney, Duke Energy, DuPont, eBay, Hines, HP, JPMorganChase, KKR, McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ OMX, National Grid, NBC Universal, NRG Energy, Office Depot, Pfizer, Polo Ralph Lauren, Related Companies, Simon Property Group, Staples, Target, Tishman Speyer, TXU and Waste Management. Andrew and GreenOrder also co-founded the U.S. Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance. In 2008, Andrew and his partners sold GreenOrder and continued to hold executive positions at the firm through 2011. Before GreenOrder was sold in 2008, Andrew and his partners spun out GO Ventures, a subsidiary of GreenOrder created to incubate and invest in sustainable businesses, including California Bioenergy, Global Thermostat, and GreenBiz.
Fortune’s Marc Gunther described Andrew as “green business’s go-to guy.” He has also been profiled in a New York Times feature, “A Dollars-and-Cents Man with a Green Philosophy,” as well as in Inc.’s Green 50 and Outside’s “Enviro All-Stars.” He has been a visiting faculty member at Yale and Columbia, his writing has appeared in diverse publications (from Wired, the New York Times, and Harvard Business Review online to Foreign Policy, The Nation, and GreenBiz), and he has appeared on CNN, PBS, NBC's Today Show, BBC, and NPR.
From the mid-1990s to 2000, Andrew focused on information technology's impact on society. His 1999 book The Control Revolution, an Amazon.com bestseller, was called “an excellent, balanced and thorough new book” (L.A. Times). He was a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, ran the Aspen Institute’s Internet Policy Project, and was a senior advisor to the Markle Foundation. He was named by MIT's Technology Review as one of 100 young innovators who would shape the future of technology.
Prior to that, Andrew focused on globalization. In 1992, Random House published his book We're Number One!: Where America Stands—and Falls—in the New World Order, which was released in Germany and Japan as well. President Bill Clinton invited Andrew to speak at his post-election Economic Summit.
Andrew is a founding board member of The Clean Fight, a non-profit sustainable technology accelerator, a longtime advisor to 92NY’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, and regional board member of American Friends of Hebrew University. He was a board member at the Southern Center for Human Rights and the nonprofit Reboot and served; an advisor to Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment, The Climate Group, and Obvious Ventures; and served at the appointment of Mayor Michael Bloomberg on a task force on career and technical education.
Andrew is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa, 1990) and Yale Law School (1995). He served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was admitted to the New York State bar.