Jane Woodward is a founding shareholder of Mineral Acquisition Partners, Inc. (MAP) and serves as its President and CEO. MAP focuses solely on the acquisition and management of natural gas royalty interests – and more recently, renewable energy royalty interests primarily associated with commercial wind and solar projects – all in the onshore United States. The firm is committed to a more sustainable energy future and dedicates a significant share of its carried interest income to initiatives related this theme.

Since 1990, Ms. Woodward has been a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University where she teaches classes on energy and environment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. In 1988, she co-founded Community Impact, a Bay Area public service volunteer organization now called Hands On Bay Area. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Geology, she also has an MS in Engineering and Petroleum Geology and an MBA, both from Stanford.

Ms. Woodward serves on the Management Board of Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Advisory Board of the new Stanford Center for Energy Efficiency and the Advisory Board of SunEdison. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Family Office Exchange and is a Trustee Associate of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation.