Tim Newell

Mr. Newell is a Senior Advisor based in San Francisco. Mr. Newell has more than 20 years of private equity, investment banking, and government experience. Prior to joining USRG in 2009, Mr Newell was a Managing Director and Head of the Clean Technology Strategy Group for Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., a San Francisco-based investment banking firm, where he was responsible for developing the firm's merchant banking business and served as a member of the management committee. Prior to joining Merriman Curhan Ford, he was a Managing Director with DFJ Element, a clean technology affiliate fund of global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was previously Chief Operating Officer of Olympius Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm; Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for E*Offering, a technology investment bank launched in partnership with E*Trade and successfully sold in 2000; and successively a Vice President and Principal of Robertson Stephens, where he led an investment banking group focused on the intersection of technology and regulated industries. Prior to his investment career, Mr. Newell served in a number of positions in the U.S. government, most recently from 1993-1997 on the White House staff of President Bill Clinton, where he served primarily as Deputy Director for Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Newell served for six years as a Congressional staff member, including successively as Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, and Washington Staff Director for then-U.S. Representative Norman Mineta representing California's Silicon Valley.

Mr. Newell received a BA in Economics from Brown University.