Chris Berkner
The Berkner Group
Founder & CEO
Chris was formerly Co-founder and Managing Director of One Earth Capital, an early stage cleantech fund that invested tens of millions of dollars in various cleantech startups (including Marrone Bio, which went public on NASDAQ in 2014).
From 2009 to 2012 he was CEO of PureSense, a 50-person cleantech hardware and software company that helped hundreds of large farms save billions of gallons of water while participating in demand response programs with PG&E and SoCal Edison.
In his more distant past, Chris was VP of Software at an internet startup, did research on solar nanotechnology at Stanford, and taught karate to kids and adults. In his spare time, Chris enjoys hiking, yoga and playing music.