Sean Petersen is a sector lead focused on enterprise and industrial in Wellington Private Climate Investing. He manages the firm’s private company investment activity in companies developing climate solutions within enterprise and industrial, working closely with portfolio managers, global industry analysts, and other global research resources within the firm to identify and pursue investments. As the climate innovation effort continues to grow, he will help build the team, develop investment talent, and further integrate Wellington’s research capabilities into this emerging business.

Prior to joining Wellington Management, Sean was general partner at the AI Fund (2019 – 2020) where he managed a venture fund focused on health, human capital, logistics and industrial AI centric technology companies. He was previously the venture lead at International Finance Corp. (2011 – 2019) where he developed and oversaw their venture sector investment strategies focused on climate and education within an ESG and impact framework.

Prior to the International Finance Corp, Sean worked at Good Energies Inc. (Cleantech venture fund of the Brenninkmeijer family) as director (2006 – 2011), as founding team member of Swapswire Limited (2001 – 2004), founding team member of Blackbird Holdings Inc. (1999 – 2001), and as an associate in Structured Finance/Derivatives at Merrill Lynch (1994 – 1999).

Sean holds a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1994) and an MBA from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania (2006).