Title:
Founder and Managing Director
Organization:
The Westly Group
Biography:
Mr. Westly has a unique background.
He served on the faculty at Stanford’s Graduate School of business for five years.
He helped take eBay public in 1998 where he served as SVP of Marketing, Business Development, M&A and International.
In 2002, Mr. Westly was elected Controller and CFO of the State of California. He served on the boards of CalPERS and CalSTRS which invest more than $450 billion.
He founded the Westly Group in 2007, which is one of the larger smart energy and transportation venture firms in the US. The firms has had four portfolio companies go public including Tesla Motors, where he sat on the Board of Trustees for 3 years.
Category:
Speaker