Bio
Cody Nystrom is a Senior Associate at SJF Ventures. She joined SJF in their Durham, North Carolina office in 2007. Cody serves as board observer for SJF portfolio company, CleanScapes, a Seattle-based recycling, organics and waste services provider and Community Energy, Inc., a Philadelphia-based utility-scale solar developer and renewable energy credit marketer. She helped found and leads the CleanLinks network in Raleigh-Durham, a cleantech business networking group with bi-monthly events around RTP. Additionally, Cody previously served or continues to serve on selection or advisory committees for Investors’ Circle, SVCIC, Dominion Resources GreenTech Incubator, Commonwealth Energy Fund and the T-100 mentoring group at University of Virginia. Cody was previously at Ewing Bemiss & Co., an investment bank based in Richmond, Virginia that provides M&A and other financial advisory services to middle-market companies, primarily in the energy and environment fields. She worked on over a dozen M&A transactions and capital raising assignments totaling over $650 million in transaction value. Cody developed deep industry and project finance experience representing companies in the renewable energy space, specifically within the landfill gas, waste-to-energy and energy efficiency sectors. Cody graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a BS in Systems and Information Engineering and a minor in Business.
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