Neil Black, a key advisor to Broadscale since its inception, has spent over 30 years working at the intersection of business, emerging technologies, and timely social issues.

Neil was a founder of California Bioenergy (“CalBio”) and president through February 2024. CalBio is one of the leaders in the country in dairy methane mitigation. Working closely with family farms, CalBio captures methane, avoiding its release into the atmosphere, and uses this methane beneficially to power natural gas trucks and municipal buses and to generate electricity to power electric vehicles.

Prior to joining CalBio, Neil was a managing principal at GreenOrder, one of the first sustainability strategy firms. While at GreenOrder, Neil helped found CalBio and GreenOrder was an early investor in CalBio. Neil helped to successfully sell GreenOrder in 2008.

Neil additionally was managing director of Class Green Capital Partners, an innovator in municipal and energy efficiency finance.

Prior to working in the environmental arena, Neil helped develop and invest in technology companies. Between 1997 and 2003, he was CEO of two technology companies, one at the intersection of the Internet and traditional media and the other an innovator in online ad serving and distributed hosting.

During his earlier career, Neil was president of The Nation magazine and remains involved in supporting its internship program and student journalism.  Neil has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.