CEOFenix International
Mike Lin is the founder and CEO of Fenix International Inc., a venture capital funded for-profit startup producing renewable energy solutions for emerging markets in partnership with mobile telecoms including Vodafone and MTN Group, Africa’s largest telecom.
A serial entrepreneur, Mike previously founded Vestal Design, an award-winning design firm, and B.MINIMA, an eco-solutions company. He was a Lecturer in Design and Engineering at Stanford as well as social entrepreneurship at Yale. Mike consulted for Apple on climate change and environmental toxins and worked with Al Gore on the “Inconvenient Truth” presentation. Mike is a LEED accredited professional, a recipient of the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award, BusinessWeek IDEA Award, and Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award. Mike is an Eagle Scout, competed in Junior Olympic Archery and earned a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and Design from Stanford University.