Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of The Technology Impact Fund, and Managing Director of Capricorn Investment Group, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. Capricorn manages about $7 billion in assets and strives for extraordinary investment results by leveraging market forces to accelerate large scale impact. Capricorn’s past and current investments include Tesla, Planet Labs, QuantumScape, Redwood MAterials, Innovium, SpaceX, Twitter, and Saildrone. Prior to Capricorn, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global market leader in electronic design, where he built and managed businesses that worked closely with electronics companies around the world. Prior to that he was at Data General (EMC), Honeywell, ROLM (IBM), and the GF Energy Research Center. He is an electrical engineer by training, and attended UND, Univ of Minnesota and Stanford. Dipender serves on the boards of AST, Innovium, Joby Aviation, Navitas Semi, NuVia, QuantumScape, Raxium, Saildrone, SummerBio, and on the investment committee of PRIME.