Hailing from America, for the past five years Valerie was a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at G2 Venture Partners, a California-based climate-tech venture fund she helped to start. She managed all operational aspects of the firm and fund including fundraising, recruiting, fund administration, impact reporting, legal, compliance, and marketing.

Previously, Valerie was an analyst at Kleiner Perkins’ $1B Green Growth Fund, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She also held positions at the U.S. Senate, X (Google’s 'moonshot factory'), Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Capital, The Wilderness Society, and the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Valerie holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Environmental Science & Public Policy and Earth & Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. She earned her M.B.A. at Stanford University along with a M.S. in Environment and Resources, graduated as a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar, and is on the board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.