David Andresen - Managing Director

David negotiated and structured dozens of private equity financings, from both within hedge fund buy-side as well as from the investment banking sell-side.  The transactions ranged from early stage to NASDAQ-listed companies, with a focus on cleantech and international transactions (Asia, Europe and South America). 

Since 2013, David been managing director of Ecotech Advisors. From 2017 to 2019, he served as an advisors to the LARTA program under contract with the US DOE, for commercialization advisory of new technology to SBIR grant recipients. From 2008 to 2012, he served as leader and managing director of the cleantech practice at Oracle Capital Securities, where he managed and structured private equity transactions for cleantech companies.  For 2010, he was appointed as chairman for San Diego for the Cleantech Open, the leading global cleantech competition and accelerator. Between 2004 and 2008, David served as a Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance at YAGI, a PIPE hedge fund with assets of over $1 billion.  He negotiated and structured several milestone transactions for the fund in China and in the domestic cleantech sector. 

From, 2000 to 2007, he was an advisor to an environmental hedge fund, with a strict value strategy, managed by Summit Global Management. From 1999 to 2004, he was the principal at Early Capital, a venture capital and investment banking advisory firm, where he was responsible for arranging and structuring financings from high tech corporate investors.   Also, between 2000 and 2003, David served on the review board of CalTIP and CCAT, participating in the selection of companies for state and federal grant programs. Since 2008 he has served on board of directors of PI Energy.   

Formerly, David worked in astrophysics research and materials science research, funded respectively by NASA and the US DOE.  He earned a bachelor’s from the University of California San Diego.  David grew up and was educated in Europe.  He earned FINRA Series 7, 63 & 79 securities licenses and speaks fluent Spanish.  He has been a guest speaker at investment banking, private equity, high tech and cleantech conferences (see public speaking).