Eric Drummond J. D.

About Eric Drummond J. D.

Retired corporate and business lawyer, entrepreneur, and investor - practiced global technology and complex administrative law for 30 years, focusing on advanced technology. Represented global clean energy developers, national lab research scientists, and the Department of Energy. Former partner at Denver\'s oldest law firm and partner in the international law firm of Squire Patton Boggs, now with 48 offices in 22 countries. Listed: “SuperLawyers”, “Who’s Who in American Law”, Martindale Hubbell’s “Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers”Serves as a principal advisor to national labs and advanced technology interests.Advanced Tech:Founder and CEO of Innovation Corridor Investments (IC), a technology and business acceleration platform. IC is a consortium of national labs, Fortune 500 companies, academic research institutions, and federal agencies. IC assists national labs and third parties to design and deploy high-impact technologies.Principal Advisor, Studio X -(Shell Corporation)Chair Thea Energy - plasma fusion: spinout from Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratoryCo-Founder grid-tied battery energy storage companyBoard of Governors “2030 Districts Network”Investor in a premier digital, evidenced-based, evaluation platformElectric utility experience includes being part of the team that created the nation\'s then third largest investor-owned electric utility holding company in the U.S, encompassing post-merger work focusing on nuclear power stations and electric transmission assets.Broad telecom experience included serving as a Regional General Counsel for one of the globe\'s largest wireless companies with $80 billion in annual revenue.Represented Department of Energy’s $32 billion Section 1705 Loan Program. Lead counsel in the financing and construction of the then-largest High Concentrating Solar Photovoltaic generating facility in the world and the diligence of a first-of-its-kind biofuel facility now providing jet fuel for F-18 Hornets and commercial aircraft.Capital Markets: Former Chair - “Colorado Venture Capital Authority” (10 years on the Bd,$150 million AUM)Founding Director and Treasurer- “Collective Clean Energy Fund” (sub-recipient $5 billion)Co-Founder, Principal Advisor, Finance - “Energize Colorado” (EC Gap Fund -$43 million deployed)Former Mayor in Colorado (Fodors and Smithsonian Mag “Best Small Towns in America”), Bd of Directors of the 17 member Pikes Peak Area Council of GovernmentsCo-Founder: NIST-GCTC: “Supercomputer Modeling and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cluster for Smart Cities and Regions”

Experience

1. Chair - Strategic Advisory Committee

   Thea Energy

   Oct 2022 — Present · Princeton, NJ, US

   Led by Dr. David Gates, Senior Research Scholar at the Andlinger Center and Managing Physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, our nation\'s premier federally funded plasma physics lab, which is managed by Princeton University, Princeton Stellarators, Inc,(PSI) is deploying cutting-edge strategies and technology to accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy.\"Princeton Stellarators is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering developed at Princeton University and elsewhere.\" Launched June 2022, PSI has quickly assembled a highly respected group of post-doc researchers and engineers to develop advancements in stellarator design leading to a faster, simpler, and less costly approach to fusion. I have joined this cutting-edge enterprise as the founding Chair of the Strategic Advisory Committee, understanding that the stellarator is considered to be the only fusion architecture that can create all required magnetic fields using highly efficient superconducting coils.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BA, Philosophy (Emph. in Symbolic Logic)

• The University of Texas School of Law

  Doctor of Jurisprudence