Stephan Dolezalek

Managing Director, VantagePoint Capital Partners

Stephan is the Managing Director and Group Leader of VPCP's cleantech practice, which ranks as one of the world's largest. With over $4.5 billion of committed capital across the firm's portfolio, VantagePoint is combining the capital, technology, people and partners to fashion the transformative companies for a new economy. 

Stephan has spent more than 25 years in Silicon Valley working exclusively with technology-driven companies. He joined VantagePoint in 1999 and has led the Firm’s CleanTech Group since its inception in 2002. He is an active participant in numerous CleanTech advisory groups, including the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Leadership Council, the Center for American Progress (CAP) Clean Tech Council and the University of Texas Energy Management and Innovation Center Advisory Board. At VantagePoint, Stephan previously served as head or co-head of the Firm’s Software and Life Sciences Groups. Prior to joining VantagePoint, Stephan was a senior partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison acting as Managing Partner of that Firm’s Palo Alto Office, Head of the Business and Technology Group and Chairman of the Life Sciences Group. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia (BCP) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD) and he serves on the board of the University of Virginia School of Architecture Foundation.