Thomas Erickson

Biography

      Tom is Co-President and Director of First Green Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in technologies related to energy, chemicals, advanced materials, and agriculture. Tom has spent the past 20 years working with venture backed start-ups as a venture capitalist and a research analyst. He currently serves as a board member for First Green portfolio companies Monolith Materials, Rivertop Renewables, Digital H2O, and Trelys. In 2000, as co-founder and general partner of BlueStream Ventures, Tom helped raise $280 million in capital from institutional and individual investors. BlueStream focused on investments in the communications, enterprise and infrastructure software, storage, and wireless markets. Tom holds a B.A. in math from St. Olaf College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

Research Interest

 Green Chemistry, Sustainability, renewable resources, biomass, biofuel, Green Engineering, green industrial applications, green investments, green process, green energy, biomaterials, nanotechnology, waste management, water treatment, bioreactors, bioprocessing, green economy