EIT InnoEnergy, the driving force behind Europe’s leading Industrial Unicorns and their commitment to achieving net-zero goals, is pleased to announce Ryan Dings as the new CEO for the US market. This appointment marks a pivotal moment as the organization accelerates its initiatives in the US, aiming to transfer its industrial expertise to foster the growth of scale-ups in the region. This strategic move is poised to generate employment, address market needs, and catalyze advancements toward a net-zero industrial sector.
Dings, who brings more than 15 years of cleantech experience to the position, will be responsible for leading the US market for EIT InnoEnergy and growing the Boston-based team. He will play a major role in US investment portfolio identification and growth; as well as creating a fertile environment for knowledge, innovation, industrialization and investment collaboration with the European market.
Elena Bou, Innovation Director and Co-Founder of EIT InnoEnergy, commented: “Since 2010, we have been on a mission to reach net-zero goals and through this commitment we have been listed as the most active global energy investor for the third consecutive year. We already play a leading role in decarbonizing industrial value chains in strategic sectors including battery storage, green hydrogen, and solar photovoltaics in Europe – so we are well positioned to bolster US industrial policy initiatives aimed at advancing net-zero objectives.
“Our strategy is designed to identify, support, and scale the most promising innovations in clean energy technologies, ensuring they make a significant impact on the market. Our portfolio of over 200 companies is estimated to generate $118.5 (€110) billion in revenue and have raised more than $26.9 (€25) billion in investment to date. Ryan’s appointment will enable EIT InnoEnergy to act as a transatlantic bridge, facilitating capital flow and knowledge sharing to empower both European and US industrial startups to scale, meeting the needs of the US market.”
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Dings’ unique combination of expertise is highly applicable to the role. He most recently served as the founding CEO of ClimateHaven, the Yale-backed climatetech incubator in New Haven, CT, and venture partner at Connecticut Innovations’ $100 million ClimateTech Fund. Before that, he led Greentown Labs, North America’s largest climatetech incubator, through a period of significant growth as its COO and General Counsel. He held the same title at Sunwealth, a Boston-based clean energy investment firm, where he helped launch the firm’s project-finance focused Solar Impact Fund. A real estate lawyer by training and an operator in multiple startups, his collective experience gives him an understanding of what it takes to invest in, support, and scale compelling clean technologies.
Ryan Dings commented: “We have a handful of decades to build a thriving regenerative economy to replace centuries of extractive economic activity. Climate change is the challenge of our lifetime. And potentially, one of our greatest economic opportunities. It will foster innovation and investment in abundance if we can harness the right skills, entrepreneurs and technology to scale at unprecedented levels and meet industrial policy targets.
SOURCE: Businesswire