Andrew L. Shapiro

Andrew has spent nearly three decades working at the nexus of new technologies and societal transformation, with a focus over the last 20 years on sustainability and innovation.  In 2012, he founded Broadscale Group, an investment and advisory firm focused on the energy transition, advanced transportation, and sustainable technologies generally.  Broadscale differentiates itself by (1) sourcing strategic investments, partnerships, and acquisitions for its Corporate Network, whose members have included Duke Energy, Engie, Equinor, General Electric, Johnson Controls, National Grid, Panasonic, and Shell and (2) acting as a general partner for a network of more than 75 family office and HNW individual limited partners, with which it has made a dozen venture and growth equity investments, including in Generate Capital, Getaround, Proterra, and Via.  Andrew has personally invested in and advised more than 25 startups, including serving on the boards of two Nasdaq-listed technology companies.

In 2000, Andrew founded GreenOrder, an advisory firm that worked with more than 100 leading enterprises on sustainability strategy.  Andrew worked with GE’s leadership on the creation and execution of its ecomagination initiative; with GM on advanced mobility including the launch of the electric Chevrolet Volt; and served as the green advisor for 7 World Trade Center, NYC’s first LEED-certified office tower.  

Andrew has been a visiting faculty member at Columbia and Yale and fellow at Harvard and NYU.  He is the author of two books and dozens of articles and has appeared on CNN, PBS, NBC’s Today Show, BBC, and NPR.  A regular speaker at conferences, Fortune described him as “green business’s go-to guy” and the New York Times profiled him as “A Dollars-and-Cents Man with a Green Philosophy.” Andrew serves as an advisor to The Clean Fight accelerator, Obvious Ventures, Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment, and The Climate Group. He is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale Law School.