Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Chief Investment Officer of Breakthrough Energy. Managing Partner of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Leads company building and investment efforts, partnering with entrepreneurs to scale technologies that cut carbon and transform the global economy. Carmichael is a founding partner of Material Impact, a fund that seeks out transformative technologies and builds them into enduring companies that solve real-world problems. The fund's strategy is based on Carmichael’s successful career as an entrepreneur-investor in “materials,” blending a unique business model of licensing university technology and commercializing it through targeted partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. Carmichael received his BS and PhD in organic chemistry from Duke University and completed his postdoctoral National Science Foundation fellowship at Harvard University. Carmichael also has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Material Impact transforms materials into companies that make an impact.
Co-founded and serve as Chairman of the Board. Sourced the technology out of the University of Illinois. Incubated the platform at the offices at North Bridge. Recruited and hired the executive team.