[1] He is on the board of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)[2] and is a technical and business advisor to organizations including the VTT (Finland),[3] and the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (USA).
The oldest of three brothers, he grew up in the Chicago suburb, Westchester, and graduated in 1975 from Proviso West High School, Hillside, Illinois.
The focus of his research was metabolic engineering (a field now more commonly known as synthetic biology) and industrial microbiology.
[10] In 2008, Cameron returned to the Midwest to help Piper Jaffray build and grow its clean tech investment business.
[11] In 2010 he left Piper Jaffray to start Alberti Advisors, a technology and financial consulting business, and to begin raising a clean tech venture fund.
[12] In 2011, Cameron and his partner, Tom Erickson, announced the formation of First Green Partners, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments in green technologies and environmentally-sound uses of fossil resources such as natural gas, backed by Warburg Pincus.
In 2017, Cameron joined the U.S.-China Green Fund, a China-based investment firm focused on addressing environmental problems in China.