Matt Tilleard
Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ CrossBoundary
Matt Tilleard is a startup investor at CrossBoundary. Matt Tilleard co-leads CrossBoundary’s investment advisory engagements and investment platform, CrossBoundary Energy. Mr. Tilleard holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he studied as a FulbrightScholar. He is originally from Australia and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. At CrossBoundary, Mr. Tilleard has led transaction support and investment climate assessments across a range of frontier markets, with a focus on Africa. Mr. Tilleard’s experience prior to CrossBoundary includes the design of financing facilities in Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, assisting in standing up an innovation unit within the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General, working as a policy advisor to an Australian indigenous leader and a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He has been recognized as an Aspen Ideas Scholar by the Aspen Institute and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is based in CrossBoundary's Nairobi office.
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About CrossBoundary
CrossBoundary recently formed CrossBoundary Energy, the first dedicated investment fund for Commercial and Industrial solar in Africa.Many businesses in Africa generate a significant portion of their own electricity through inside-the-fence diesel generation. Due to the cost of diesel, it would be economically and environmentally optimal forthese businesses to switch to renewable generation through solar and other alternatives. However, businesses are ill equipped to take the financial and technical risk to finance a conversion to renewables. At the same time, capital lacks a standardized platform to access these profitable but relatively small transactions.CrossBoundary Energy is a platform to aggregate finance for medium scale renewable self-generation. The platform finances renewable generation projects (0.2MW-10MW) that serve commercial customers in Africa such as off-grid light manufacturing, cell towers, farms, remote hospitals, eco-lodges and beverage bottlers. Our goal is to enable the delivery of energy-as-service and unlock the latent opportunity for renewable own-generation in Africa.
CrossBoundary Contacts
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Jake Cusack
Managing Partner and Founder
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Kymberly Bays
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Matt Tilleard
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
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Soline Miniere
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