Alan Simon was the first President/Chairman, and he currently serves as a Board Member of the NREL Foundation. During Alan’s tenure as President, the NREL Foundation received over $12 million in donations. Alan is the CEO of North America Closeshoring, a strategic advisory firm that assists companies with technology-enabled reindustrialization, modern mobility, and energy projects. Alanis also a Venture Partner with Acequia Capital, where he’s involved in investments into early-stage hard tech, biotech, energy, and space industry companies.

Prior to his current roles, Alan spent nearly a decade with private investment firm The Broe Group and its affiliated entities, as a senior executive involved in strategic growth related to logistics, supply chains, cross-border projects, real estate, and energy. Alan has been a partner at law firms Dorsey & Whitney and Greenberg Traurig, where he handled mergers and acquisitions and international corporate transactions.