Daniel G. Weiss is co-founder and Managing Partner of Angeleno Group LLC (“AG”), a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm with a global platform focused on high growth investments in next-generation clean energy and climate solutions companies. In addition to his firm management responsibilities, Mr. Weiss leads investments and serves on boards of multiple AG portfolio companies. Before the formation of AG in 2001, Mr. Weiss was an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, working in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and international and high technology practice groups. He represented multiple Global 1000 clients, including utilities and energy-related companies, in a wide array of private equity and corporate finance transactions.

Currently, Mr. Weiss serves on boards for several non-profit and educational institutions, including the California Community Foundation, World Resources Institute, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Advisory Board (where he serves as co-Chair).

Previously, Mr. Weiss served on the Federal Reserve Bank’s 12th District Economic Advisory Council, Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, and City of Los Angeles Redistricting Commission (appointed by the Honorable Eric Garcetti). Mr. Weiss was appointed by President Obama in 2015 to serve as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, Mr. Weiss has taught, lectured, and published articles on topics of climate finance, sustainability and the low carbon economy.

Mr. Weiss holds a JD from Stanford Law School, an MA from Stanford University, and a BA with High Honors from UC Berkeley.