Get to know Scaletech and how to scale your business

Get to know Scaletech

Our Story

Scaletech was founded in 2017 by three MIT alumni with a combined 50 years of experience in cleantech operations and finance, including work with multilateral finance institutions, cleantech incubators, and accelerators and as award-winning inventors. From 2017 – 2019, we piloted our approach under the leadership of ImplementaSur SA, a Chilean cleantech advisory. Initially funded by three MIT competitive innovation awards, we incorporated with the support of several major grants, including several EU and state-level funds.

We are currently headquartered in Potsdam, Germany, with additional representation in Cambridge MA, USA.

Recent Projects

Advisory of a “Big Four” company on supplying clean and reliable energy to its data centres in emerging markets

Identification and Evaluation of climate change-induced technology needs and business opportunities

Identification and comparative analysis of financing options for the acceleration of green hydrogen adoption

Development of sustainable business models and financing mechanisms for energy efficiency technologies for the World Bank

Application to an international climate fund for an innovative energy storage technology

Transfer of cleantech from U.S. incubators to multinational mining company operations in emerging markets through an innovation challenge

Our Team

Georg Caspary

CEO - Ph.D., M.B.A., M.Sc.

Dr Georg Caspary has 20 years of experience implementing and financing cleantech in over 25 markets worldwide. After initial stints in banking and economic journalism, he led environmental regulatory advisory work at the OECD for 5 years. Subsequently, he spent 12 years at the World Bank, which included, working as a Team Lead in a range of sectors in e.g. Peru, Chad, Morocco and Kazakhstan. Furthermore, he authored the first comprehensive fundraising strategy for the World Bank Environment Department.

Dr Georg Caspary has taught widely in graduate schools (including for five years at Georgetown). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as ‘Energy Economics’, ‘Impact Assessment’, ‘Renewable Energy’ and ‘Global Governance’. He has been the recipient of various awards including e.g. being named on Germany’s "40 under 40" list and as one of the Atlantic Council’s Emerging Leaders in Energy and Environment.

He graduated as a National Merit Scholar in Economics and Philosophy from Oxford and holds advanced degrees from the LSE, Sciences-Po Paris and MIT.

Harald Quintus-Bosz

CTO (non-resident) - M.Sc.

Harald has over twenty-eight years of product development experience in products ranging from solar-powered lights for emerging markets to robotics, most recently as the co-founder and CTO of Cooper Perkins, a technology development consulting firm. Harald also teaches Design for Scale at MIT, a class focused on design for manufacturability for products headed to the developing world. Prior to this, Harald was a primary organizer and instructor of the International Development Design Summit, a program focused on creative capacity building in emerging markets to enable the design and fabrication of appropriate technologies to address the needs of the developing world. Harald is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and holds an B.Sc. from MIT and an M.Sc. from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering.

Rodrigo Garcia Palma

COO - M.Sc.

Rodrigo Garcia Palma has more than 17 years experience with a portfolio of over 150 clean technology projects in new markets, helping to access associated finance, and contributing to the registration of 950 kton CO2/year of emissions reductions from various sectors and regions. He was the director at First Solar, Head of the Technical Division at the Chilean Renewable Energy Center, translated R&D into commercial applications at Fraunhofer, and served as Chilean representative at several UN COP conferences. Most recently, he has been Managing Director of ImplementaSur, a cleantech consultancy, serving customers like the World Bank Group and Google. At MIT, he gained an M.Sc. in Technology and Policy, and has published widely in scientific journals including ‘Energy Strategy’ and ‘Energy Policy’.

Clemens Möller

Associate - M.Sc. Sustainable Technology

Clemens is an Industrial Engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Technologies from the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology. His particular interests include sustainable transport solutions, smart cities, cleaner production, and environmental management systems. He is certified by TÜV Süd as an Environmental Management Representative (ISO14001:2015 and EMAS-III). His previous professional positions include BMW, Fresenius Kabi, and the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Kristin Siegert

Executive Assistant

Trained in English, German and Russian, Kristin has been an Executive Assistant to CEOs of several engineering companies serving international markets since 2003. Her portfolio at Scaletech covers Financial Management, HR, Procurement and Marketing.

Our Design-for-Scale-Experts

Diana Yousef

Biochemist, Ph.D., M.B.A, M.A.

Diana Yousef is a serial entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience commercializing technology for social and environmental impact in the developing world. Formerly a biochemist (A.B., Harvard; Ph.D., Cornell), and holds an MBA and MA in International Development (Columbia). She has published widely in the scientific press.

She consulted for McKinsey and co-founded IFC World Bank’s Life Sciences Investment Group. She also co-founded WeCyclers, a social venture to clean up urban slums and create recyclables supply chain linkages in Nigeria, and Immerse Global, a Stanford-spin out to develop atmospheric water capture technologies, which has been deployed in ABC countries for which she raised a total of XYZ.

She serves as an advisor to the TED Fellows Program and is a founding council member for NASA - USAID’s LAUNCH Accelerator.

Huda Elasaad

Mechanical Engineer, M.Sc.

Huda has extensive academic and applied background in the water field. She has professional experience internationally, including in Mexico and the Middle East, and in various facets of the water industry, including municipal plant operations for wastewater treatment, desalination, and water process engineering.

Her bachelor’s degree from McGill University focused primarily on the fields of geohydrology and aquatic chemistry. She joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 2012 as a Technical Assistant after completing a master’s degree at the University of Michigan, where she concentrated on industrial and environmental chemical contamination and control, by means of exposure modeling, sampling and analysis protocol development, and novel sampling hardware apparatus prototyping.

She is a published author in the fields of environmental public health, water treatment design, maintenance optimization and field applications. Huda is co-founder of PV Pure, CTO of change:WATER Labs and consults in the field of commercial aquaculture.

Sorin Grama

Electrical Engineer, M.Sc.

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