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Mr. Kobler is CEO and Managing Partner of Energy Impact Partners. Working closely with our strategic partners Hans leads EIP’s investment efforts and advises our partners on strategy.

Hans spent his career focused on transformative businesses as investor, advisor and operator. He pioneered the strategic investment model for General Electric and then led GE’s Power technology investment effort working closely with Power Systems, Industrial Systems and GE Research. Mr. Kobler was the CEO of Digital Power Capital, a private equity fund focused on advanced power technologies. Mr. Kobler also served as CEO and Chairman of ICx Technologies, a leading sensor technology company, which he co-founded and led as CEO and Chairman through an IPO on Nasdaq. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kobler was a consultant with Bain & Company where he developed strategies for large global industrials in their Boston, Sydney and Munich offices.

Mr. Kobler holds a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich with distinction, a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and attended INSEAD’s MBA (SS) program. He lives in New York with his wife and three daughters.