Andrew Shapiro

Andrew L. Shapiro has spent nearly three decades working at the nexus of new technologies and societal transformation, with a focus over the last 20 years 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 two dozen 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 Duke Energy, Engie, Equinor, General Electric, Johnson Controls, National Grid, Panasonic, and Shell and (2) acting as a general partner for a network of family offices and high-net-worth individual limited partners, with which it has made 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 Blink Charging, Generate Capital, Getaround, Proterra, Revel, and Via Transportation. Andrew has recently served as an advisor to Obvious Ventures as well as on the boards of two technology companies, Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK) and Akerna Corp. (NASDAQ: KERN), as a director and observer, respectively. 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.