Cascade ClimateDai Ellis
An entrepreneur with deep experience founding and scaling high-performing nonprofit and for-profit ventures across climate, health, and education. He is a thought leader on field building and market shaping for social impact. Earlier in his career, Dai led the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s pioneering work on market shaping for drugs, vaccines, and other health products in the Global South. More recently, he has been at the forefront of efforts to import learning and tools from global health market shaping into climate tech, including a major new initiative to shape the market for clean cooling products. Dai is also an executive coach to climate tech founders and CEOs with a wide range of clients including Arcadia, Sealed, Running Tide, and David Energy. Between his time in global health and climate, Dai spent the better part of a decade building education ventures, including a VC-backed pan-African network of K-12 schools called Nova Pioneer offering world-class education at affordable tuition levels.
