David Kirkpatrick

Managing Director and co-founder, SJF Ventures

David Kirkpatrick is Managing Director and co-founder of SJF Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund with offices in Durham, NC and Philadelphia, PA. SJF focuses on rapidly expanding cleantech, business services and consumer products firms, has 16 portfolio companies, and is investing from its second fund. He was named national 2005 CDVC Practitioner of the Year by the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. Previous to SJF, David founded and managed two successful enterprises - KirkWorks, an environmental investment research firm, and SunShares, a solar energy and recycling company. David earned a BA from Duke University in 1982 and an MBA from UNC Business School in 1991.