Rard Rijcken

Venture Partner, SHIFT Invest
Rard Rijcken pairs European Commission and practicing-law background with restructuring at Nuon (managing its split and sale to Vattenfall) and expertise in aligning government and markets during the energy transition.
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About Rard Rijcken

Rard Rijcken's path from the European Commission and practicing law to senior roles at Nuon, where he handled the company's split-up and its sale to Vattenfall, gives him a rare mix of policy, legal, and hands-on restructuring experience in the energy sector. He's often called on to discuss the practical mechanics of energy markets—like grid congestion, negative electricity prices, and battery storage economics—as well as how government and markets should work together during the energy transition.

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SHIFT Invest has a dedicated Impact Committee of outside experts that has spent over a decade screening investments and sharpening companies' theories of change, ties part of its team's success fee to the fund's environmental impact performance, and uses the planetary boundaries framework to guide its sector strategies and map portfolio exposure. It also runs a dedicated Thematic Technology Transfer Fund with Dutch technical universities and TNO to commercialize deeptech from research institutions, invests across all stages from pre-seed to growth, and has brought in corporate investors like KLM, NS and Royal Schiphol Group specifically to help decarbonize mobility and logistics.

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