DOUGLAS CAMERON

Douglas Carlyle Cameron is a senior managing director for the U.S.-China Green Fund, serves on the board of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), and is a technical and business advisor to organizations including the VTT (Finland) and the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (USA).

Prior to this, Cameron was at Cargill, Inc. from 1998 to 2006, where he was Director of Biotechnology and chief scientist. While at Cargill he worked closely with NatureWorks on the development of a low-pH process for lactic acid as a feedstock for polylactic acid.

In 2006, Cameron moved from Cargill to join the newly formed venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, as chief scientific office, and later worked with Piper Jaffray to build and grow its clean tech investment business. In 2010, he left Piper Jaffray to start Alberti Advisors, a technology and financial consulting business.

In 2011, Cameron and his partner, Tom Erickson, announced the formation of First Green Partners, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments in green technologies and environmentally-sound uses of fossil resources.

In 2017, Cameron joined the U.S.-China Green Fund, a China-based investment firm focused on addressing environmental problems in China.