The Vault Series features prominent speakers and topics which are relevant to our members and guests for their continuing education.

Join us for an exciting Fireside Chat featuring two dynamic perspectives on the forefront of climate innovation: Sara Chamberlain is the co-founder of Earth Foundry, a leading venture capital firm investing in clean energy, mobility, water, waste and agriculture. Sunny Elebua is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Exelon Corporation, a leading utility powerhouse driving change in the industry.

About Earth Foundry

SARA CHAMBERLAIN Sara is Co-Founder & Managing Director at Earth Foundry, an early-stage venture capital firm which has backed some of the most transformative energy and cleantech companies. Sara is the driving force of the firm, leading investment activity and actively building the fund’s portfolio companies, including Advanced Diamond Technologies (acquired by SMIN), Azumo, e-Zinc, Intellihot, NanoGraf, Network Perception, Polystyvert, Tank Utility (acquired by Generac), and Volexion. 
Prior to Earth Foundry, Sara built a government advisory practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and helped climate tech startups raise $300M in non-dilutive funding.  She also held roles with GE Energy and the environmental consulting firm, GaiaTech. 
Sara earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an undergraduate degree from Emory University. She also holds several advisory roles including serving on the Investment Committee for accelerator Evergreen Climate Innovations, the Advisory Board for Chain Reaction Innovations, an incubator program at Argonne National Laboratory, and serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Rustandy Center – Chicago Booth.  Sara was recognized by Fortune as a “Top 13 Seed Stage Climate VC to Watch” and by Midwest Energy News “40 Under 40.”

SUNNY ELEBUA 
SVP, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer at Exelon Corporation is a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest energy delivery business by customer count, serving over 10.6 million customers through six transmission and distribution utilities. Exelon’s family of utilities include Atlantic City Electric Company (ACE), Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), Delmarva Power & Light Company (DPL), PECO Energy Company (PECO) and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco).
Exelon is recognized as an industry leader with best-in-class operations, strong ESG leadership and principles, and a dedication to supporting and investing in the communities they serve. One element of Exelon commitment to supporting and investing in the communities is through the Climate Change Investment Initiative (2c2i). This $20M 10-year fund is aimed to cultivate startups whose products, services or technologies are focused on fighting climate change and whose work benefit residents of a region served by the company.
Over the past four years, 2c2i has invested in 32 companies, with 64% of the portfolio being minority or women-led and 57% of the portfolio being headquartered in Exelon’s footprint.  Thus far the 2c2i portfolio has created more than 300 jobs and reduced, displaced, or avoided over 25,000 metric tons of GHG emissions through innovative solutions.

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This is a "Passport Program." Members of any local CFA society may attend at the CFA Society Chicago member rate. If you are only a member of CFA Institute, you do not qualify for the society member rate.