Matthew Nordan is a Managing Partner at MNL Partners, which develops energy and environmental projects in China and other high-growth economies. Before MNL, Matthew was a venture capital investor at Venrock – one of the world’s oldest and most successful venture capital firms – where he drove investments in FINsix (power electronics) and Nest Labs (energy efficiency, acquired by Google for $3.2 billion). Earlier, Matthew was President and co-founder of energy tech analyst firm Lux Research and an executive at Forrester Research. He serves on the boards of FINSix, Sense Labs, Quidnet Energy, and Greentown Labs, and is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the nonprofit PRIME Coalition. He is a graduate of Yale.