Jeff Canin
Jeff Canin has a 30-year career in financial services and venture capital where he has worked with IT and cleantech companies. As an independent consultant, Jeff provides financial and business development advisory services to early-stage companies and projects. He is engaged primarily in the field of cleantech, including the biofuels, solar, water treatment and advanced materials sectors. He has served as entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Washington’s TechTransfer office and has been active in commercialization initiatives at Oregon State University, focused on material science and renewable energy technologies. Among his current endeavors, Jeff is a co-founder of a startup pursuing the commercialization of organic polymer-based electrochromic glass technology, acting CEO of a spinout developing a low-energy desalination device, and an advisor to an early-stage company developing a line of glycerol-based microfuel cells.
He previously worked as research director at Reed Global Advisors, an investment banking and research boutique. He was a general partner of Efund LLC, a local venture capital fund focused on early-stage software and telecom investments. He spent two years in the Northwest office of US Venture Partners, one of the largest California-based venture capital firms. Jeff worked in San Francisco for twelve years as a Senior Technology Analyst with Salomon Brothers, Inc., Montgomery Securities and Hambrecht & Quist, Inc. He holds FINRA Registered Representative, Investment Advisor and NYSE Registered Supervisory Analyst licenses. Earlier in his career, Jeff was employed by the IBM National Accounts Division as a Marketing Representative and Systems Engineer.
Jeff earned an MBA in Marketing and International Business from the University of California, Berkeley, CA and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering and Economics from Brown University in Providence, RI, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Jeff has known and worked with Bryan Zetlen during the last several years on projects and investigations in the field of biofuels, including the proposed implementation of a network of distributed modular biodiesel production facilities and a research initiative pursuing algal oil extraction for use in biofuel and other high-value derivative products. Other potential areas of research commercialization interest to Jeff include fuel cells, water purification, waste-to-energy systems, advanced materials for solar energy generation, and IT-based smart grid technologies.
