Isaac Vanderburg
Managing Director
Launch Alaska
Isaac leads Launch Alaska and is the fund manager for Launch Alaska Fund II - a $3m fund that invests directly in the accelerators' cohort companies. Isaac previously served as Executive Director of the Alaska Small Business Development Center (SBDC), where he worked with hundreds of early stage companies, and pushed the organization to support entrepreneurs responding to Alaska’s energy challenges. Before joining the SBDC Isaac was part of the founding team of Chispa Group (now Afina Holdings) an import-export firm in Philadelphia that specializes in trade between the Delaware Valley and Chile. He completed the Energy Executive Leadership Program at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, CO in 2016, as well the Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies program at Stanford. Vanderburg played four years of NCAA Division I soccer and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador ('02).