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In June 2008, Mr. Donohue was appointed Babson College’s first Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He is primarily teaching, and conducting research, within the Olin Graduate School and Arthur Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, yet he will also lecture in the executive education program. In 2001, he was the Founder, Managing Partner and Chairman of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, a pioneer in Clean Technology venture capital investing, which manages over $100,000,000. Mr. Donohue sold most of his interests in Expansion Capital Partners in June 2008.

During the last twenty years, Mr. Donohue has built three successful investment management, investment banking and financial service companies. He has a broad background in venture capital, both on the buy-side and sell-side, plus he has served in senior operational roles for venture-backed enterprises. He has been involved in growing over twenty venture capital backed enterprises. His career has focused on entrepreneurship, investment, corporate strategy and sales/marketing in the areas of Clean Technology and socially responsible business. In the past, he has been a member of many for-profit boards, including Chairing five entrepreneurial Boards of Directors.

Mr. Donohue was a Founding Investor, and has served for seven years on the Advisory Board, of the Cleantech Group, LLC, which is the leading conference and knowledge organization in the sector. He currently advises several leading companies in the sustainability and Cleantech sectors, including the Cleantech Group and Conscious Living Ventures. He has also served in a broad variety of non-profit roles, including the “Micro-Credit Lending” Grant Committee of the Threshold Foundation. He was previously Chair of the Membership Committee for the Social Venture Network (the leading U.S. organization of executives furthering global sustainability).

Mr. Donohue earned his BS in Investment Management, with honors, from Babson College in 1988. In 2009, he graduated from the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators, at Babson College, which is a widely regarded as the preeminent training for teaching entrepreneurship. He has served on the college’s Board of Overseers since 2002. He has been a leader in many Babson initiatives, such Chairing and co-founding Babson’s annual Entrepreneurial Energy Expo, which attracted over 600 attendees in 2009.

On a personal note, he resides in Boston and San Francisco. He has been life-partnered with Pam since 2003, who is an attorney and psychologist. He is also quite active in the lives of his two God Children, Martin and Ixchel.