Carmichael Roberts co-leads the investment committee at Breakthrough Energy Ventures and is co-founder and managing partner of Material Impact, a venture fund building resilient technology companies through product development with innovative materials to solve real-world problems. Carmichael leverages his entrepreneurial experience building companies and commercializing university-based technology in partnership with Fortune 500 companies.

Carmichael serves as Vice Chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees, as well as on the boards for the Consumer Technology Association, WGBH, and Massachusetts General Hospital Physicians Organization.

Carmichael received his BS and PhD in organic chemistry from Duke University and completed his postdoctoral National Science Foundation fellowship at Harvard University. He also holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.