{"id":576668,"date":"2010-05-24T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2010-05-24T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:37:38","slug":"tony-blair-goes-gore-joins-khosla-ventures-as-senior-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576668","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair Goes Gore, Joins Khosla Ventures as Senior Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Tony%20Blair&amp;iid=8288288\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0\/8\/9\/7\/Middle_East_Quartets_d7ff.JPG?adImageId=12971901&amp;imageId=8288288\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Middle East Quartet's Session - Moscow\" width=\"168\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>Following in Al Gore&#8217;s footsteps, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is looking to cash-in on cleantech opportunities and as has signed-on as a senior adviser with Khosla Ventures, one of silicon Valley&#8217;s most ambitious green venture capital fund.  <span id=\"more-8381\"><\/span> On his appointment the former British Prime Minister said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nI\u2019m neither a tech expert nor a financial expert, but I find the conversation I had to contemplate the vast expanses of my own ignorance. The answers to climate change and energy security lies in the technological innovations. I am thrilled to play whatever small part I can.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Al Gore has been a trail blaizer in translating his climate change advocacy into serious dollars. In 2007 he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers as a partner. He&#8217;s also helped launched Generation Investment Management, a London-based, green-focused asset management firm.  Last year at a hearing Gore passionately defended his business practice, saying he saw nothing wrong in investing in ways that are consistent with his beliefs &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/04\/gore-ive-been-willing-to-put-my-money-where-my-mouth-is\/\" >see this video<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Al%20gore&amp;iid=7390170\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/3\/f\/f\/a\/UN_Climate_Change_afb5.jpg?adImageId=12971915&amp;imageId=7390170\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UN Climate Change Summit Enters Final Week\" width=\"111\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So what will Blair and his self-processed lack of technology and financial experience do?  He\u2019ll likely open doors, be a deluxe flack that ensures that the right people and opportunities connect. In short monetize the contracts he&#8217;s accumulated while at 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after leaving office, almost two years ago, Blair signed on a part-time senior adviser with New York investment bank JP Morgan Chase, a gig that reportedly<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/BUSINESS\/01\/10\/us.blair\/\" > pays him more than $987,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how much Blair will pocket at Khosla. On the appointment Khosla founder, Vinod Khosla said the fund would rely on Blair&#8217;s deep policy expertise to grow its cleantech investment portfolio. &#8220;What has surprised me is the diversity of the technology. That\u2019s why we need people like Tony. The effects of policy on innovation and innovation on policy is invaluable,&#8221; Khosla said, <a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2010\/05\/24\/khosla-ventures-signs-on-former-british-pm-tony-blair\/\" >as reported by Earth2Tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to Khosla Ventures and will post any updates.<\/p>\n<p>Images: PicApp<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/5jXf9ZGuMmg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following in Al Gore&#8217;s footsteps, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is looking to cash-in on cleantech opportunities and as has signed-on as a senior adviser with Khosla Ventures, one of silicon Valley&#8217;s most ambitious green venture capital fund. On his appointment the former British Prime Minister said: I\u2019m neither a tech expert nor a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}