Laura di Bonaventura

Laura joined the MUUS Climate Partners team in 2020 as a member of the Investment Committee, and as Principal in 2021, working part-time until completing Stanford’s “Distinguished Careers Institute” program in 2022.  Laura focuses on strategy, organization, and current and future portfolio companies. Her ambition is to enable emissions-light or emissions-free ways of living and working.

Laura graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. While studying ecology in college, Laura became interested in the interplay between nature and economics. After her MBA, she spent nearly 10 years in management consulting at McKinsey & Company in the Los Angeles and Amsterdam offices. Her client work included new product launches, organization and operations redesign, and agricultural product management in the timber and food sectors.

Post McKinsey, Laura helped launch the e-commerce site “cooking.com.” As head of strategy, she created content partnerships and built proprietary food and skill resources. Since the ‘90’s Laura has been an active private investor in ventures and private equity.

After raising three young children in the Netherlands, Laura returned to the US to work in secondary education as the first Sustainability Director for the largest K-12 school in CT. There, Laura brought innovations to area schools in many clean tech arenas: investing in roughly 1MW of solar energy; overseeing construction of a nearly net-zero energy commercial building and LEED-gold housing; launching a software-based transportation system; creating a farm program; instituting no waste meals and composting; and spearheading efforts to integrate sustainability into the K-12 curriculum.

Laura serves on the Board of an educational non-profit, Subject to Climate, which provides teacher-developed, searchable, climate resources. She has been a trustee of The Nature Conservancy of CT since 2014.  Laura chairs the Energy Management Advisory Committee and serves on the Conservation Commission for the Town of Greenwich, CT.  Laura chairs the Energy Management Advisory Committee and serves on the Conservation Commission for the Town of Greenwich, CT.  She spends as much free time as possible in the woods and has a wide repertoire of plant-based recipes.