Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Investors, a venture capital firm in San Francisco whose goal is to match financial returns with altruistic benefits. Originally a part of JPMorgan, DBL became independent in 2008. Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984. Pfund sponsors or sits on the boards of BrightSource Energy, SolarCity, Solaria, Primus Power, Eco.logic Brands, OPx Biotechnologies and Powergenix. She is a board member or advisor for the California Clean Energy Fund, the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency, the Center for the American West at Stanford University and the Milken Institute's Center for a Sustainable Energy Future. She is a founding officer of ABC2, a foundation that supports brain cancer research. Pfund is the author, with Benjamin Healey, of "What Would Jefferson Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America's Energy Future." Pfund received bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology from Stanford and an M.B.A. from Yale University.

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