Jonathan Naimon is the founder of Sustana Cooling Partners. He is a sustainable investment leader who pioneered institutional thematic sustainability investment products for UBS in Switzerland, Storebrand in Norway, and WASA in Sweden. Risk-managed ESG products now exceed 1 trillion AUM worldwide.

As the founding financial advisor for Sun Edison, he pioneered the application of third-party tax equity finance to solar energy projects. Renewable energy has grown by 10,000% pus with third-party finance and institutional investors constituting the majority of capital. Selected as the first sustainable manager for a California pension fund, he invested in Tesla @ $16 (IPO price was $18) and led dialogue with Ford in advance of its successful hybrid electric SUV Escape launch. Tesla is the most valuable car company now. Jonathan led corporate environmental research at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now MSCI and Sustainable Investment Institute). He managed interactions with sustainability leaders at hundreds of S&P 500 companies and managed development of one of the first quantitative profiles of corporate environmental risk. IRRC is now part of MSCI’s ESG group. Jonathan held corporate technology roles at ABB (US). At ABB he helped integrate a bioremediation startup and obtained DOE support for two clean technology demonstrations. ABB subsequently acquired inverter company Power One. At ICF International, his team helped EPA analyze technology alternatives for various refrigeration applications to support new rules on stratospheric ozone depletion that contributed to the US CFC phase down. CFCs are potent greenhouse gases. He also supported both EPA and European Union regulations of environmental biotechnology applications. Jonathan has an MSPH in Environmental Management from University of North Carolina where he was an National Science Foundation fellow and Ethics and Values in Science and Technology awardee. He has a BS in Biology and Cognitive Science from MIT. He served on the House Congressional Energy & Power Subcommittee. With WBCSD and insurance company support, he had appointment as a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management) in Oslo. Jonathan taught graduate course in cost benefit analysis as an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie University