Shawn Garvey is a serial entrepreneur and environmental activist. Garvey is the founder and Chief Executive Officer, here at Momentum, a family of companies working to design, develop and deploy transformational clean energy technologies. He is a co-founder and managing director of E-Mission Control, which designs and manages electricity consumption data products for forward-thinking on- and off-road vehicle fleet operators, and also co-founder and director of MXV Ventures, a company that designs clean-tech incubation and accelerator programs and invests in early-stage clean energy innovations and start-ups. He founded The Sierra Fund, a foundation for the environment committed to the land and people of California’s Sierra Nevada headwaters which sponsored successful legislation creating Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Garvey co-founded several non-profit organizations, including The Sierra Fund, Velocity7, Green Research and Green Mountain Film Festival. He served as a Special Projects Representative for the US Department of Agriculture Rural Development in the Clinton Administration. Garvey founded Smart Campaigns, a political communications firm that has helped to elect hundreds of Democratic and progressive candidates for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, throughout the United States and abroad.
BACKGROUND
Shawn is a co-founder and former Chair of the Bioenergy Association of California. He helped craft and manage an ambitious legislative and regulatory strategy that places California at the crux of bioenergy adoption and commercialization. Before Momentum, Shawn served as Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs at CleanWorld, CEO of The Sierra Fund, and Executive Director of the South Yuba River Citizens League. Earlier in his career, he founded SMART Campaigns, a national public affairs and communication firm whose clients included more than 100 elected officials, including a US President, 15 US Senators, 50 members of the Congress, and dozens of statewide elected officials. During the Clinton administration, Shawn served as a Special Projects Representative for the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Rural Development. He developed and implemented economic development strategies in Northern California and Oregon.
EDUCATION
The University of Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Environmental Policy, 1995
Boston University, Bachelor of Science in Finance/Economics, cum laude, 1988