Dr. Stefan Heck is CEO and co-Founder of Nauto, the Palo Alto-based autonomous vehicle technology company. Heck is also Consulting Professor at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, teaching courses and conducting research on innovation, energy, and resource economics.

He directs the Energy Transformation Collaborative (ETC) a new program applying the talent of the Stanford community and Silicon Valley to develop and deploy novel solutions to the world’s most vexing energy problems. In addition, Heck is also a research fellow at the Steyer Taylor Center at the Stanford business and law school, and an angel investor in disruptive technology companies.

Previously he was a Director at McKinsey and co-founded and led the Cleantech and Sustainability practice. He is also on the Board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.

Heck is on the Innovation Advisory Board of United Technologies, the board of the Biomimicry Institute, the advisory boards of New World Capital, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, and the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford and has published a book "Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century".

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