Kristin Martinez is co-founder and CEO of Sound Point, Inc., a venture development and business advisory company, and the successor to Sound Point Ventures, LLC, started in Seattle in 1998. Through Sound Point Ventures she created Angels with Attitude, the first active angel fund focused on sustainable and cleantech investments. She served as a director and the first CFO of portfolio company, Advent Solar, in Albuquerque, NM, where she helped the company raise its first three rounds of venture funding. Most recently, Kristin was a founder, director and CFO of biotech startup Acoustic Cytometry Systems, Inc., in Los Alamos, NM, an angel-funded company that was acquired in October, 2008.

Kristin spent 10 years in the electric utility industry, focusing on finance and energy efficiency. She was Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer of Pepco Energy Services, Inc., an unregulated spinout from Potomac Electric Power Company (now Pepco Holdings, Inc.) focused on providing energy efficiency services for large national customers.

Kristin has a BS degree from Boston University and an MBA in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University. Kristin is currently on the Board of Directors for MACH Energy, TraceDetect, Mobius Technologies, and CleanSwitch.