Stephan Dolezalek
Managing Partner
My focus is on realigning our food supply chain, modifying our growing practices, and intelligently using technology, to better serve the needs of human health and the health of our planet.
Stephan joined the Grosvenor Food & AgTech (formerly known as Wheatsheaf Group) Board as a Non-Executive Director in May 2017. Since then, he has assumed increasing responsibilities within the Group, becoming a full time Executive Director in January 2019.
Stephan has worked with entrepreneurial growth companies since the 1980s. He has been a private equity investor since 1999, investing in software, communications technology, biotechnology, clean energy and agricultural businesses. He led VantagePoint Capital Partners' $1Bn CleanTech Fund from its inception. More recently he served as a senior advisor in forming the Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund and was the Managing Partner of Resourcient Group LLC. Stephan has also acted as co-founder of several companies and has helped "raise" five "unicorn" companies reaching valuations of between $1 and $100bn.
Stephan is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia (BCP) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD).