STEPHAN DOLEZALEK, Senior Advisor

Stephan has a 40-year track record of investing in and helping entrepreneurial technology businesses scale across 5 separate sectors – biotechnology, software, data & communications, clean energy, and food & agriculture.  He has invested in and helped grow more than a dozen “unicorns” several of which have also crossed the $100Bn mark. He is currently a Managing Partner of Wheatsheaf Group, a private investment arm of the Grosvenor Estate. The Wheatsheaf Group is one of the largest and longest established investment teams in the food and agriculture sector. It invests companies throughout the world to re-think and re-shape how food is grown, produced, distributed and consumed. He is the Chairman of AeroFarms, a leading controlled indoor agriculture business, and a Director of Benson Hill (NYSE: BHIL), a leading food innovation company that combines data science and machine learning with biology and genetics. Prior to Wheatsheaf, Mr. Dolezalek served as Senior Adviser with respect to the formation of Breakthrough Energy Ventures, previously having founded and led VantagePoint Capital Partners' $1Bn CleanTech Fund, where he was a large early investor in Tesla. He has also served Managing Partner for the Palo Alto office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a major U.S. law firm. He has served as a director on the boards of numerous public and private companies. He was a founder of Healthline Media. He has served 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 is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture (BCP 1978) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD 1982).