from the University of California at Berkeley. Future-proofing your organization: Tara Guelig of The Lightsmith Group. Sanjay was an Investment Officer at the World Bank/International Finance Corporation, where he led equity investments in private transport, power, and water infrastructure projects in developing countries. Sanjay was part of the founding team for ARPA-E and served as the agency’s first Associate Director for Commercialization, launching ARPA-E’s “tech to market” program to commercialize breakthrough energy technologies.Įarlier in his career, Mr. The Lightsmith Group is a Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals, Brokerage, and Finance company located in New York, New York with 5.00 Million in. Department of Energy, overseeing the implementation of $15 billion of investments in clean energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Sanjay served as a senior official at the U.S. In the first three years of the Obama Administration, Mr. As a Principal at VantagePoint Capital Partners, he helped to launch the firm’s CleanTech Group, which invested over $1 billion in 25 cleantech companies–most notably in the first institutional investment round in Tesla Motors. Sanjay’s experience includes 12 years investing in venture capital and growth equity. And for them alone.Sanjay Wagle is co-founder and Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group, a private equity firm investing in growth-stage technology companies that address critical societal needs, with a current focus on climate change adaptation and resilience. The Lightsmith Group 4 years 6 months Vice President Jul 2021 - Present1 year 10 months New York, New York, United States Senior Associate Nov 2018 - Jul 20212 years 9 months Greater New York. I am asking you to reconsider your choices for them. I am asking because the victims do not get to ask help themselves. I am asking to reconsider those choices that force harm and suffering upon others. Not because I belief to be “morally superior”, or because I am trying to “force” anything.

For the animals, for those people already suffering the consequences of climate change. That I made it about others not doing their part, instead of seeing the victims of my choices.Īnd more than an observation, this is a plea for help. The premade salad in a plastic container is so easy, and I do think I thought “well if others aren’t willing to even try, why should I”?

One that makes me having to start making changes too – I haven’t taken the steps to live towards a zero waste-life. This “right to individual freedom” is directly harming that of others.Īnd no – this is not a judgment (although I am, of course, one of those “angry vegans”). What a privilege to make it about the ethical vegan being “angry”, rather than about the grief behind that “anger”: The victims.Īnd yet - this privilege, this right to “individual freedom”, is leading to the freedom of others being taken or being at risk. What a privilege it is to say you know animals and the climate are harmed by your choice to continue to eat animals, and to be met with “thank you for your honesty”.

What a privilege it is to choose not to see the victims of your choices – neither the direct ones (the animals), nor the indirect ones (the people having lost everything due to climate change, such as in Pakistan), because we attach so much weight to individual freedom. This comment on this platform got me thinking. “We cannot force people any kind of diet – if we do not grant individual freedom, our society is non-inclusive”.

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