Mr. Reicher joined Google in 2007 where he serves as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives for the company's venture called Google.org which was capitalized with more than $1 billion of Google stock to make investments, advance policy and develop products in the areas of climate change and energy, health, and global development.
Prior to this position, Mr. Reicher served as President and Co-Founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity firm funded by the California State Teachers Retirement System and Vantage Point Venture Partners to invest in clean energy projects. He also served as Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems, one of the nation’s oldest renewable energy companies. Mr. Reicher was also an adjunct professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Vermont Law School. From 1997-2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He served in a variety of other positions at DOE beginning in 1993. After leaving the Clinton Administration in 2001 he was a consultant to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a Visiting Fellow at the World Resources Institute.
Prior to his roles DOE and in the business community, Mr. Reicher was a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also previously Assistant Attorney General for Environmental Protection in Massachusetts, a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Boston, a legal assistant in the Hazardous Waste Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a staff member of President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.
Mr. Reicher holds a B.A. in biology from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He also studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and MIT.
