Travis Bradford, Founder, President, and Director, Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development.
Travis founded the Prometheus Institute in 2003 as a means to connect the vast reach and power of industrial and capital markets with the technologies necessary to sustain and develop long-term economic well-being for people around the world. Travis is currently the Editor-in-Chief of PVNews, the solar energy industry’s oldest newsletter, and is the author of Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry published by MIT Press. He is also a partner at Atlas Capital, a hedge fund based in Cambridge, MA.
Prior to founding the Prometheus Institute, Travis was a partner at Steel Partners II, L.P., a hedge fund based in New York City focused on the acquisition, growth, and sale of small publicly traded and privately owned businesses. In this capacity, Travis served as both a board member and active management participant in these types of businesses in industries ranging from industrial filters to fertilizer distributors to financial service providers. Travis has worked for the Federal Reserve Bank, has lectured at top Universities including Columbia University, Duke University, New York University, and Harvard University on finance, entrepreneurship, and alternative energy economics.
About Prometheus Institute
Founded in 2003 by Travis Bradford, a former private equity and hedge fund executive, the Institute was created to fill a need for reliable data, quantitative analysis and practical information about the renewable energy industry. This lack of information is a limitation to the growth of the field and inhibits economic support for sustainability, and the Institute was created to provide this vital information and thereby accelerate the transition to widespread use of these sustainable technologies. Since its founding, the Institute has focused almost exclusively on pursuing these objectives specifically with respect to solar energy and photovoltaic (PV) electricity.
