SAIL's Partners are a diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, experienced investors, government insiders and seasoned venture capitalists. Our team's broad range of skills includes, but is not limited to:

• Operations
• Financing
• Deal structure
• Growing and managing successful organizations
• Legal expertise
• Energy & Environmental policy

Our industry backgrounds are equally diverse and encompass government, technology, environmental science, food & agriculture, energy, legal, automotive, manufacturing, building materials, safety and financial services.

SAIL Partner Hank Habicht has spent most of his professional career in business and investing. As a former Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. EPA and Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Environment & Natural Resources, Hank was instrumental in the inauguration of the U.S. Energy Star Program and implementation of market-based trading programs under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. During his tenure as a top executive for Dole Foods and Pacific Holding Company, SAIL Partner Alan Sellers led major negotiations, evaluated M&A transactions and spearheaded successful cost reduction and environmental programs. Mike Hammons, a SAIL Partner, has extensive operational and managerial experience in leading domestic and international technology-based operations. Having worked on the first IPO of an alternative energy company in the U.S., SAIL Partner Walter Schindler has substantial experience and expertise in independent power production and industrial cogeneration. Finally, SAIL Partner Chris Rhoades acquired companies in the building materials space with a green product focus and then merged these into a larger competitor, resulting in a significant exit and creating one of the largest privately owned building materials companies in the U.S.

The SAIL Difference

The ability to create a strongly supportive team, which engages the best resources of our networks, portfolio company leaders and co-investors in order to build value in our investments, is what differentiates SAIL. Through our networks we seek unique technologies, which will alter or create new markets, and then work to successfully commercialize them. 

We place significant value on both our Limited Partners and Portfolio company Management Teams, and consider them our extended Partners. We engage our Limited Partners in our investment process in creative ways that enhance value for all parties. Similarly, we seek out companies with strong, customer-focused management teams, and work closely with them to strengthen their businesses and make them more profitable.