Olushola Ashiru

A Partner and Portfolio Manager at New Energy Fund (NEF) II, Shola Ashiru has worked in the field of clean technologies since 2007. She co-founded New Energy Fund II (an NEF Advisors company), which is a private equity yield fund set up to take equity positions in high yielding renewable energy projects ranging from fuel cells, solar and wind to efficiency and storage options. Based in New York City, Shola started her career in Cleantech Equity Research, then Equity Capital Markets at Ardour Capital Investments. Shola serves as judge in the annual New York Business Plan Competition, the annual Cleantech Open Northeast competition, and also the annual National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Industry Growth Forum.