
Nicholaus Rohleder is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Fluorcycle, a technology company that converts waste into fluorspar, and a Senior Advisor to Principal Mineral, a critical minerals & materials company.
Outside of his professional commitments, Mr. Rohleder serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches the Climate Technology: Finance & Policy and Environmental Commodities courses, as a Fellow at the National Security Institute (NSI) where he is a Contributing Writer, as a Member of the Economic Club of New York (ECNY), and as a Family Advisory Council Member for the University of Oxford’s Ownership Project 2.0: Private Capital Owners & Impact.
Previously, Mr. Rohleder served as the Co-Founder of Archetype Energy, a power infrastructure development company focused on the telecommunications & data center end markets, and as the Co-Founder of Climate Commodities, a project finance & development holding company focused on the power and metals & mining sectors.
Before this, Mr. Rohleder as the Chief Investment Officer of New American Energy, a global hedge fund focused on the energy transition, as an Independent Director at Lone Cypress Energy, an infrastructure development company focused on the oil & gas sector, as Chief Operating Officer & Portfolio Manager at Merit Holdings Group, a private investment platform focused on global public securities and select private equity investments, and as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, teaching the Theory & Practice of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) course.
Mr. Rohleder attended the University of Oxford, reading a Master of Science in Major Programme Management with a concentration in Infrastructure Finance. Mr. Rohleder received a Master of Science in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Engineering and Technology from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science in Sustainability Management with a concentration in Environmental Finance from Columbia University, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree in the Energy category.