CEO of GreenCape

Mike Mulcahy is the CEO of GreenCape. A not for profit and public benefit organisation. GreenCape works to unlock and unblock opportunities in the Green Economy to create jobs and investment by working at the interface of Government, Business and Academia.

GreenCape has been involved in a number of catalytic projects that support accelerating the Green Economy, for example: Is secretariat for the South African Plastics Pact, lead the application for designation to set up the Atlantis Special economic zone, and has welll over a decade of experience in a variety of Municipal support activities particularly in Energy, Water and Waste.

GreenCape’s work in the finance space includes supporting the South African Climate Finance landscape mapping, the successful ideation, set up, and delivery of a pilot Green Outcomes Fund for SMMEs. GreenCape has provided significant support to SMMEs via various pitching challenge’s and climate finance accelerator programs. GreenCape is supporting the development of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Finance Facility (SIDAFF), with a view to accelerate infrastrucutre investments in sustainable infrastructure in b-municipalities in South Africa.

Mike is a board member of the Center for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) & Chairperson of the International Cleantech network.