MICHAEL W. SONNENFELDT is the founder of TIGER 21, the nation’s premier network of learning groups for high net worth investors.  He is also founder and Chairman of MUUS & Company and MUUS Climate Partners.  He is the former Chairman of Carmanah Technologies Corp., a (then) publicly traded Canadian company that designs, manufactures and distributes solar powered lighting and systems for industrial applications globally.  Recently, MUUS & Company formed MUUS Climate Partners to focus intensely on companies that can play a meaningful role in decarbonizing the economy and slowing the advance of climate change.  From 1991 to 1998, he founded and led Emmes & Company, a real estate investment boutique that was a major buyer of distressed portfolios in the early 90's and grew to over a billion dollars in assets by the time he sold his interest in 1998.  In 1981, he conceived and initiated the then world’s largest commercial renovation, commencing the transformation of the 2.4 million sq. ft.  Harborside Financial Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.  Mr. Sonnenfeldt received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was inducted to Phi Beta Kappa.  Mr. Sonnenfeldt has been actively involved over the last twenty-five years at senior levels in numerous nonprofit organizations focused on the environment, national security, Middle East peace, international peacekeeping, the US/UN relationship, the removal of land mines and communal development.  He was named a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Business at MIT for the 2003/4 school year, to co-teach “Business and the Nation’s Security” which he spent a year developing with a team he assembled.  Currently, he is highly focused on fighting Climate Change through his philanthropic, financial and political activities.  Mr. Sonnenfeldt was, until recently, Co-Chair of the MIT Sloan School Climate Pathways Project.  Yale Law School recently announced the endowment of the Goldman Sonnenfeldt Environmental Law Clinic, and the naming of the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben Gurion University in Israel was announced in the Spring of 2022. Mr. Sonnenfeldt currently serves on the Board of the Center for New American Security, and is the Co-Chair of the Jewish Climate Trust. Mr. Sonnenfeldt is also a clothing designer and usually can be found wearing clothes of his own design. Mr. Sonnenfeldt lives in New York City, but sails wherever he can.