James McDougall

James McDougall is an entrepreneur, CEO, connector, advisor and venture capitalist with global experience building high performing teams and commercializing new technologies. He has held several Executive and Non-Executive Board assignments in North America, Asia and Europe as CEO and Managing Director, Director, Non- Executive Director and Advisor. And has raised over $400 million for early-stage and growth equity, M&A, corporate restructuring and project financing for startups, SMEs and public listed companies he has led. He is presently Co-Founder and Partner at MerakiCap as well as Co-Founder and Managing Member at Meraki Green Development which actively invests in and deploys digitalization and decarbonization solutions in the Greek energy and real estate sectors. He is a Board Member and Co-Founder of Cleanwatts, a digital utility company delivering carbon-free energy solutions via energy communities and VPP, Chairman and Co-Founder of Solintel, a developer and manufacturer of renewable lighting and related smart city solutions. He is a Non-Executive Director at SkeletonTech, a world leader in ultracapacitor technology and related energy storage solutions. He is a board member an investor at Bisly, developing automation and energy efficiency proptech solutions. And was a Co-Founder and GP at Tera Ventures in Estonia. James has a B.S. in International Business from Ferris State University and an MBA from Thunderbird. He also completed post graduate studies at Thunderbird in Global Private Equity and Energy, Harvard Business School in Venture Capital and Private Equity and studies in Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage at Stanford University.