Nicholas Parker
Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Acceleration Partners Inc.
Literally the person who first coined the term and defined “clean tech”, Nick has established GAP as the leading cleantech investment group focused on bringing solutions to China, with current projects estimated to reduce CO2 by up to 300Mt/year while building Canada and China’s clean economy. Partnering with the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), GAP has worked to build a model that accelerates research, development, and commercialization while cutting costs and, because market need for the solution in China is established in advance, eliminating risk.
