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Bio

Tenacious Doer & Sustainable Civilization Pioneer

Powerhouse strategist and c-suite operational executive with decades of pioneering experience building and growing companies and investment funds in the sustainable economy markets (decarbonization, climate tech, cleantech, ESG) with business development, sales, capital formation and origination/deal flow.

👀 I'm currently looking for partners to co-develop next gen investment products and services financing a healthy biosphere with the goal of broadening access to mainstreet investors.🌏

📞Reach me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbalbach/

🎥Watch EQ Talk: https://player.vimeo.com/video/317095930

I've had the great honor to have helped define and birth the emerging sustainable economy. This has taken me to 80 countries and to work with, be trained by and server as an advisor to some of the greatest systems thinkers and global architects of our time, including: President Biden, Mikhail Gorbachev, Benazir Bhutto, Oscar Arias, George Shultz, Eduard Shevardnadze, Maurice Strong, Desmond, Tutu, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Ted Turner, Thich Nat Hanh.


· 1st US Senate hearings on climate change; delegate to Brundtland Commission (launch of Sustainable Development); trademark and global expansion of cleantech investment category.

· Staff Director, Congressional Task Force on Afghanistan (reference movie "Charlie Wilson's War"); National Security and black budget oversight of $8B annually.

· Co-founder, State of the World Forum; founding VP, Gorbachev Foundation. Editor, "The Search for a New Beginning; Developing a New Civilization" by Mikhail Gorbachev

· Multiple fund formation and fund management with aggregate of $250M AUM (venture and RE project finance/project equity)

· 14 capitalization events spanning Seed, Series A/B/C, Mezzanine, wind down, 8 M&As, reverse merger and public listing (NYSE).

· Capital raises targeting $650M

· C-Suite operating roles in 8 companies as CEO, COO, SVP Corporate Development and VP Marketing scaling emerging technologies and business models mainstream.