Michael C. Rubino

Michael Rubino "is a partner in Palmetto Aquaculture, a shrimp farm in South Carolina. Michael Rubino has founded and managed startup companies and developed pioneering investment funds in the fields of environment, alternative energy, agribusiness, and aquaculture.

"Mr. Rubino was Manager, New Funds Development, with the World Bank's Carbon Finance Group. He led the team that developed the Community Development Carbon Fund and the BioCarbon Fund. During the 1990s, Mr. Rubino was at the International Finance Corporation (private sector affiliate of the World Bank) where he developed renewable energy and biodiversity investment funds. Earlier he was the CEO of Bluewaters, Inc., an aquaculture production and R&D company. Mr. Rubino has been a trustee of Vassar College and the vice-chairman of the State of Maryland's Aquaculture Advisory Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Vassar College.“


 * Director, Environmental Resources Trust