Energy - Environment - Health - Technology These four industries have the capacity to greatly improves our lives. Join us for our first ever "An Advisor in Your Pocket For One Night." Russ is an innovator and entrepreneur with deep and broad experience in emerging energy technology, and is an expert in both the theory and practice of corporate innovation and venturing.  Russ just completed a 30-year career at Shell where he was most recently leader of Shell’s “GameChanger” early-stage innovation program and thus had the privilege of investing in many entrepreneurs with ideas that could change the game of energy. Russ currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for StarRotor Corporation, on the Selection Committee for the Energy & Industry vertical of iSelectFund.com, and on the Advisory Boards of Autonomous Marine Systems, Qukku, Linear Motion Technologies, and the new AccelerateH20 water technology accelerator in Texas. Russ has recently co-founded a startup setting out to develop a new business model for ‘regenerative’ agriculture that produces healthy and affordable food while creating an array of positive side effects for both people and planet. Russ was born in Omaha, NE and graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983.