Meet the Team Behind Energy Innovation Hub

Energy Innovation Hub Leadership and Senior Advisors

Sean Voigt, CEO

Sean Voigt has spent nearly the entirety of his 20+ year career dedicated to sustainability and clean energy.

Seeing the critical role of innovation in addressing climate change and making global food and energy systems more sustainable, Sean studied chemical engineering and biology at Stanford in the early 2000s. Blending a technical background with a passion for entrepreneurship, his career has since spanned start-ups (Primafuel), business advisory (McKinsey Sustainability Practice), investing (Black Coral Capital, Mount Koya), sustainable economic development (multiple countries) and success as a founder (President, RedLeaf Biologics). Upon returning to Austin in 2023, Sean founded the Energy Innovation Hub TX to unlock Texas’s immense potential to lead the global energy transition.

Sean holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in chemical engineering from Stanford and Columbia University respectively, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

View Sean on LinkedIn here.

Michael D’Onofrio, Senior Advisor

  • CEO & Founder, TerraFive Partners, deploying ~$100M/yr

  • CEO at Orbus Software, growing ARR from £10M to £15M in 15 months

  • CFO at GRIDSERVE, building one of UK’s largest EV charging networks

  • CTO at TBAuctions, pan-European buy-and-build with 3 acquisitions

  • Private Equity investing at Hg Mercury & Planet First Partners

  • Harvard Business School (with Sean), Co-President, Energy & Environment club

  • View Michael on LinkedIn here

Kingsley Gifford, Senior Advisor

  • CEO at Median.co a global B2B SaaS scale-up;

  • TerraFive advisor

  • VP at Clairvest, leading mid-market energy PE deals

  • Director, Strategy & Finance, Properly

  • McKinsey & Company, Private Equity Practice

  • MBA at Harvard Business School, Treasurer Energy & Environment Club (with Sean and Michael)

  • Engineer, Newfoundland Power

  • View Kingsley on LinkedIn here