Hans Kobler Bio

Mr. Kobler is the Founder & Managing Partner of Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a global venture capital firm leading the transition to a sustainable future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and the world’s most forward-looking energy and industrial companies to advance innovation. With over $2 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure – and has a team of nearly 60 professionals based in its offices in New York, San Francisco, Palm Beach, London, Cologne, and Oslo. Mr. Kobler has spent his career focused on transformative businesses as investor, advisor and operator. As Chief Quality Officer at GE Equity, General Electric’s VC arm, he pioneered the company’s strategic investment model and then led GE’s Energy Technology Investment Group, where he worked closely with GE Power Systems, GE Industrial Systems and GE Research. Mr. Kobler followed his career at GE by founding and serving as CEO at Digital Power Capital, a successful venture capital fund focused on advanced power technologies. Out of Digital Power Capital, Mr. Kobler started ICx Technologies, a leading sensor technology company targeting security, transportation and energy, which he led as CEO through a successful IPO, listing on Nasdaq and strategic sale. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kobler was a consultant with Bain & Company where he developed strategies for large global industrials and assisted private equity firms in their Boston, Sydney and Munich offices. Mr. Kobler is a frequent speaker on innovation, corporate venture capital and the transformation of the global economy towards a sustainable future. He has addressed forums such as the BNEF Global Summit, Goldman Sachs Impact Investing Summit and CERAWeek, among others. Mr. Kobler holds a Master of Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich with distinction, a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and attended INSEAD’s MBA (SS) program. He lives in New York with his wife and three daughters.