Robert Hokin, Greenbackers Investment Capital Limited

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Robert Hokin is managing partner at Greenbackers, a CleanTech equity fund.

He has spent the last 10 years of a 25-year career in technology development, commercialisation and finance focussed solely on the sector.

Previously, Robert was chief executive at ecoConnect, a UK-wide CleanTech business network and founded the CleanTech-Innovate Showcase.

He has held senior management positions at ABB, Worldcom, GEC-Marconi and McAfee, and is a member of the UK Business Angels Association and the Environmental Industries Commission.

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