Sail Venture Partners Welcomes Gavigan, Best-Selling Author of Healthy Child Healthy World to Advisory Board

COSTA MESA, CA and NEW YORK, NY, July 28, 2010-- The Advisory Board of SAIL Venture Partners has announced its newest member: Christopher Gavigan, author of the best-selling book, Healthy Child Healthy World - Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home, and CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World, an innovative nonprofit organization focused on environmental health and sustainable, nontoxic consumer products. SAIL, a leading cleantech venture capital firm investing in the areas of energy, water and green innovation, welcomes Gavigan on to their Advisory Board, made up of leaders from the environmental, corporate, technology, and scientific communities. Fellow SAIL Advisory Board Member, Dr. Ron Hart, is an internationally recognized scientist, scholar, and expert in business acceleration strategies for emerging growth companies.

Most recently, Mr. Gavigan designed strategic partnerships with Google, WebMD, Target, Seventh Generation, Microsoft, Babycenter, Universal Studios, Whole Goods, and countless market leaders in the area of formulation compliance and consumer marketing while forming Healthy Child Healthy World. In addition to SAIL, he sits on the Board of Directors of Mount Sinai Hospital's Children Environmental Health Center, UCLA Environmental Health Sciences Department, and is the Chief Advisor for Green Product Innovation Institute. He included over 40 notable contributions in his book, Healthy Child Healthy World, from leading doctors, activists, and celebrities, including Dr. Philip Landrigan, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, First Lady Michelle Obama, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sheryl Crow, Dr. Alan Greene, and Dr. Harvey Karp.

"Christopher is a pioneer in the area of healthy, sustainable product development for children and families and is a compassionate environmental leader," commented Walter Schindler, Managing Parter of SAIL Venture Partners. "We are proud to welcome him as an esteemed Member of our Advisory Board."

Raised in New York and Connecticut, Christopher graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a double major in Environmental Science and Business, and did postgraduate work in Psychology at UCLA. His wife, Jessica Capshaw, is an actress best known for her role as Jamie Stringer in The Practice and for her role as Dr. Arizona Robbins in Grey's Anatomy.

About SAIL

SAIL Venture Partners LLC (www.sailvc.com) is a cleantech investment firm with unique global insight into technologies, markets and opportunities. Drawing on decades of experience in cleantech and in growing successful businesses, the SAIL team invests in emerging cleantech companies with proven technologies, visionary leadership, demonstrated revenue and profit growth potential. SAIL has invested in a number of today's leading global cleantech companies, including: The Cleantech Group, Xtreme Power, Ice Energy, Enerpulse, Kokam Advanced Batteries, SNTech Motors, and WaterHealth International. For more information, visit www.sailvc.com.

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