Purpose Future Fellow - Emerging Fund Manager
Diane Artal-Burger
Co-Founder, Good Energy
Diane Artal-Burger is building environmentally sustainable local infrastructure and reducing energy costs by enabling residents to develop and own their own solar microgrids.
Diane Artal-Burger is using the Purpose Futures Fellowship to incubate Good Energy, a Benefit Corporation that enables communities to finance, build, own, and manage neighborhood-scale solar microgrids. Good Energy provides microgrid system technology, project finance (through a social investment fund), and legal support, so that neighborhood groups can set up a locally controlled Purpose Trust to manage the shared asset.
Diane Artal-Burger is an attorney with 15+ years of international experience at law firms and in-house legal departments. She is the founder of Altitude Law Firm, advising private and publicly-traded U.S. and European companies specializing in engineering services, manufacturing, clean technology, renewable energy, software, retail and consumer products. She advises her clients on a wide range of legal aspects, such as structuring, risk and mitigation strategies, financing, negotiation of long term commercial contracts, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property portfolio management.
Prior to founding her own law firm, Diane worked for 6 years at Sequa Corporation, owned by The Carlyle Group, and comprised of two specific businesses: Chromalloy Gas Turbine – a global repair and parts supplier for commercial and industrial gas turbine engines, serving energy plants and the aviation industry, and Precoat Metals – a U.S. metal coil coater. There, she assumed the roles of Senior Counsel for Chromalloy Gas Turbine, LLC and its affiliates worldwide, and Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for Precoat Metals Corp.
From 2005 to 2015, Diane worked for several law firms. She started her career as a commercial litigator in Geneva, Switzerland, and continued as commercial and corporate counsel for VCs, investors, start-ups and medium-size companies in NYC.
Diane is also a board member of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce in New York, through which she organizes conferences on various topics, such as data privacy, crypto currency and blockchain, environmental and clean tech solutions.
Diane is qualified to practice law in Switzerland and in NY State. She holds a J.D. and Master of Laws from the University of Geneva, School of Law, in Switzerland, and a LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.