Our Team
CLIFFORD D. JOLLY
Cliff is the Chief Strategist for our technology and retail innovation assets in both public and private equity markets. He has previously held positions as a Private Equity Portfolio Strategist, an energy program manager for a Fortune 500 science & technology company, a Principal Research Scientist and Business Development Manager for an aerospace (Space Station & Shuttle) and industrial products company, a high school & collegiate baseball coach, a research scientist at a major university biomedical laboratory, and a quality control and transaction control manager at a retail bank operations center.
He has conducted extensive on-site research on the effects of globalization on industries and firms, and the macroeconomic and sociopolitical forces affecting corporations. He has worked & conducted research in over 40 countries, and holds an MBA in Global Management from Georgetown University Schools of Business and Foreign Service in Washington, DC, and an Executive Master’s in Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility from ESADE Business School in Barcelona. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Arizona State University in Tempe, and has completed the Private Equity Program at the London Business School.
Cliff holds twelve (12) US Patents with additional US and international patents pending, and is the author of over forty (40) refereed technical publications and reports. He has received six (6) NASA Certificates of Recognition for space flight and commercial technology developments, a NASA Space Act Award, and was named NASA “Inventor of the Year” in 1994.
DR. JAMES F. WHITE
Dr. White is Principal Advisor on Clean Technology has more than 45 years of diverse industrial experience in catalyst technology. His expertise is critical in evaluation and due diligence of companies and technologies in the sector, utilizing a combination of process economic and deep technical capabilities. He is generally considered to be an icon in the chemical process industry, with accomplishments that include development and scale-up of over 65 different catalysts and catalytic processes. His industrial experience includes catalyst discovery, catalyst synthesis and development, catalyst scale-up, characterization and manufacturing, process development, technical service, quality control, and transitioning new discoveries from lab to a manufacturing environment.
Dr. White has significant technology experience that can be applied in the field of petroleum-based and renewable biobased processes for the production of many high volume and high value-added chemicals and feedstocks. Dr. White obtained his PhD from Akron University in the field of organometallic catalysis and a BS in chemistry from Mount Union College, and was honored with the Paul N Rylander award for excellence in catalysis by the Organic Reactions Catalyst Society (2014).