Global Technology Symposium Silicon Valley

Steven Lawrence Geiger

Steven Geiger is the COO of Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian government's strategic program for innovation and technology.

At Skolkovo, he is part of a team actively building five technology clusters (Energy; IT; Space; Nuclear; and Bioscience), establishing a full-service Technopark housing start-ups and R&D labs of global technology majors, and creating a world-class research university in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also the driving force behind Skolkovo's international branding and marketing, tasked with effectively communicating Russia's rich scientific and intellectual resources to global audiences.

Prior to this, Mr. Geiger was the co-Founder and Director of Masdar, a $15 billion technology development program by Abu Dhabi to diversify its economy away from an overreliance on natural resources. There he successfully led a team which built Masdar from a five-person startup into a global brand and leading investor in renewable energy and clean technologies.

While at Masdar, he founded and built Masdar PV, a $600 million company producing advanced photovoltaic technology, co-established a $250 million technology fund, and played a key role in creating the world's first graduate-level research institute dedicated to renewable energy (Masdar Institute) in partnership with MIT, which included implementing a world-class framework for commercialization of innovative research and technology transfer.

Mr. Geiger has over 20 years' international investment experience in energy and technology, primarily in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, Asia and the MENA region.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA degree from Wharton Business School.

 

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