Rob Glen

Rob Glen is Founder and Managing Member of Acanthus Climate Ventures, advising companies and investment firms that offer solutions to the causes and effects of climate change on business development and strategy.  Prior to founding Acanthus Climate Ventures in 2021,  Rob ran the San Francisco office of BloombergNEF (BNEF,) the strategic research arm of Bloomberg LP, for more than thirteen years. Rob joined predecessor firm New Energy Finance from 451 Research, a specialist in enterprise information technology. Prior to entering the market research industry, Rob spent more than 15 years on Wall Street, most of them as an investment banker with the securities subsidiary of Prudential Insurance Company of America. Rob spent his pre-finance career as a policy journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist based in Washington, DC.  His work has appeared in more than 100 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada as well as the Economist and National Journal.