Partner and COO
VoLo Earth Ventures
Elaine is a Partner and COO for VoLo Earth Ventures. With over 20 years of experience advancing innovation across the energy industry, she is passionate about accelerating clean energy commercialization and deployment through investment, policy, and industry engagement.
As a former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s first Under Secretary for Infrastructure, Elaine focused on catalyzing the market liftoff of critical energy infrastructure technologies through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding. She also led strategic engagements at the DOE’s Loan Programs Office.
Before joining the DOE, Elaine co-founded RMI’s global climate tech startup accelerator program Third Derivative. She also supported the relaunch of Generate Capital in early 2020, led the VERGE climate tech conference programming at GreenBiz Group (now Trellis), and served as a global utility strategist and sustainability manager at DNV after switching careers as a green building consultant and engineer.
Elaine graduated with a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering and Masters in Engineering Management from Duke University.