Kelly Belcher is a managing director for SVB and leads the Energy Resource Innovation (ERI) teams in Texas, Boston and New York, where he’s responsible for cultivating relationships with investors and management teams and for setting strategic vision for SVB’s Energy Practice vertical. He is passionate about clean energy technologies, climate tech, food and agriculture and traditional energy technologies — all working together to make energy production, distribution and consumption more equitable and environmentally conscious for the global populace.

Prior to joining SVB, Kelly worked in financial operations and asset management for a private equity-backed exploration and production company. This included directing commercial activity, a role in which he witnessed the day-to-day operations of drilling and producing crude oil and natural gas. Through this experience, he gained knowledge and respect for protecting the environment and its finite natural resources. He launched his career as a financial analyst for Northwestern Mutual and later worked for Merrill Lynch.

Kelly holds a BBA in finance and economics, an MS in financial planning and an MBA in business administration from Texas Tech University.

I am interested in the intersection of finance and social impact. At SVB, I partner with disruptive technology companies in the cleantech sector and help them scale by advising on banking/treasury management needs, capital structures and strategic growth opportunities. I develop and manage relationships with pre-revenue through $1Bn+ revenue companies throughout the country. I structure tailored financing solutions (e.g. venture, mezzanine, asset-based and project finance debt) to help companies grow and ultimately deploy affordable, clean energy around the world.

Lafe Vittitoe is a member of the Energy & Resource Innovation team at Silicon Valley Bank. He manages numerous client relationships across North America and is responsible for serving their lending and banking needs.  His primary focus is on early stage venture backed companies in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors.

 
Prior to joining SVB in 2008, Lafe held positions at Square 1 Bank and Comerica Bank providing banking and credit products to a variety of technology companies as well as venture capital and private equity firms. He is a graduate of the University of San Diego.

Milo Werner is a partner at Ajax Strategies, where she invests in and builds portfolio companies industrializing advanced technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Milo has significant experience taking products from initial prototype to mass production and building the operating systems critical to sustaining their growth. She advises founders on the fundamentals of new product introduction; prepares them with a framework to make strategic design, sourcing and logistics decisions; and most importantly gives them the tools to build cohesive, effective teams.

Before joining Ajax, Milo led operations strategy for the highly technical hardware portfolio at Khosla Ventures, where she mentored founders transforming the aerospace, robotics, autonomous vehicle and advanced materials industries. Prior to that, she led engineering at Off-Grid Electric, a startup focused on developing microgrids and cell chemistry predictive health modeling in developing countries.

Milo holds a BS in geology and civil and environmental engineering from the University of Vermont and an MS in civil engineering and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.