Andres Wydler is a successful entrepreneur with a passion for driving high-impact business opportunities based on disruptive technologies. He has a proven track record of leading opportunities from conception to their commercial stage or profitability through organic growth and M&A in the US and abroad. Wydler has financed, developed, and managed new business opportunities in various clean tech sectors, including LED lighting, energy efficiency, smart grid, renewable energy, and waste water treatment.

With a degree in JD from Universität Zürich and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Wydler has a strong educational foundation for his entrepreneurial ventures. He has taught a highly successful Clean Tech course at Stanford and has served as a Clean Tech executive, advisor, and start-up consultant at Clean Tech Advisory Services.

Wydler has held several key positions in various organizations, including serving as Executive Director at StartOut since late 2015. He has also been a Board Member and CFO at LumaStream Inc. and a Board Member at AirSage.

Wydler co-founded BPL Global, which was sold to Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), and was also Managing Partner at Constellation Partners. Additionally, he worked as Sr. Director at Macromedia, which was sold to Adobe, and as Manager Online Presence at Cosmo Software at SGI: Cosmo Software. Before embarking on his entrepreneurial career, he served as Assistant to the President at Nifco Inc.

Overall, Wydler's background exhibits extensive experience in entrepreneurship, clean tech, advisory services, management, and teaching.