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Shawn Garvey (born May 11, 1965) is a serial entrepreneur and environmental activist. Garvey is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Momentum, a family of companies working to design, develop and deploy transformational clean energy technologies. He is a co-founder and managing director of Energy Mission Control, Inc, which designs, manages, and executes electricity consumption data products for forward-thinking on- and off-road vehicle fleet operators, and also co-founder and director of MXV Ventures, a company that designs clean-tech incubation and accelerator programs and invests in early-stage clean energy innovations and start-ups. He founded The Sierra Fund, a foundation for the environment committed to the land and people of California’s Sierra Nevada headwaters which sponsored successful legislation creating Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Garvey co-founded several non-profit organizations, including The Sierra Fund, Velocity7, Green Research and Green Mountain Film Festival. Garvey founded Smart Campaigns, a political communications firm that has helped to elect hundreds of Democratic and progressive candidates for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, throughout the United States and abroad.

Early life
Garvey was born at Wasson Army Hospital in Fort Dix, New Jersey. Soon after, his father Edward Garvey, a member of the U.S. Army, moved with his mother Judith Korostynski to Baumholder Army Airfield in Baumholder, Germany located just north-east of the town of Reichenbach. At the end of his father's military service, the family returned to the region around Springfield, Massachusetts. Garvey attended St. Mary's School in Westfield, Massachusetts and after graduation moved to Boston, Massachusetts where he attended multiple colleges until graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Finance & Economics from Boston University.

As a young person, Garvey was a community organizer, political activist and entrepreneur. By age 8 he could routinely be found selling lemonade by the side of his country road in Woronoco, Massachusetts. He was deeply involved in Junior Achievement (JA), where he founded and lead six companies of fellow high school students that created and sold products. He earned national recognition when he was awarded "President of the Year" by Junior Achievement for designing and developing a new energy efficiency product that insulated electrical outlets and wall plates and sold thousands of units. Garvey co-founded the Westfield Peace Action Group, and later the Western New England College Peace Action Group, in response to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and organized a regional contingent to attend the 1982 No Nukes March and Rally in New York City's Central Park. He was very active in numerous political campaigns, including the 1976 U.S. Senate campaign of Ted Kennedy and the 1980 U.S. Presidential campaign of John Anderson. He represented the 2nd Hampden and Hampshire Senate District as a member of the Massachusetts Model Legislature in 1980.