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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Renewable Energy space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
John Melo
Director, President & Chief Executive Officer of Amyris
John Melo has 30 years of combined experience as an entrepreneur and thought leader in developing and growing technology companies and as a senior executive in the Oil & Gas industry. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Melo has led Amyris through successful technology development, industrial start up, product development and commercialization and a series of funding rounds, including the initial public offering. Before joining Amyris in 2007, Mr. Melo served in various senior executive positions at BP Plc (formerly British Petroleum) most recently as President of U.S. fuels operations where he successfully led a business transformation and significantly improved the financial performance. During his tenure at BP, Mr. Melo also served as Chief Information Officer of the refining and marketing segment; Senior Advisor for e-business strategy to Lord Browne, BP group chief executive; and Director of global brand development. In this last role, he helped develop the “Helios” re-branding effort. Before joining BP, Mr. Melo was with Ernst & Young. Mr. Melo currently serves on the board of directors of Renmatix Inc., serves on the board of directors of BayBio, serves on the Bio Industrial and Environmental section governing board, is a member of the Council for the Portuguese Diaspora and is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). He was formerly an appointed member to the U.S. section of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum. When not working on the mission of making sustainable chemistry mainstream or championing the eradication of malaria, John enjoys skiing, reading and time with his family on the island of Pico in the Azores, his childhood home.
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About Amyris: Amyris Biotechnologies specializes in creating renewable products focusing on fuels and chemicals.
Eric White
Chief Executive Officer of Dividend Finance
Seasoned distributed energy resources / energy transition and fintech entrepreneur with a passion for conceptualizing and designing innovative financial structures, products and business strategies that breakdown capital barriers and empower underserved markets.
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About Dividend Finance: Dividend Finance is a Technology-enabled finance platform supporting the energy transition with lending and other financial solutions.
Harrold Rust
Founder, President & CEO of Enovix
Mr. Harrold Rust has served as CEO and President of ENOVIX since its founding in late 2006. He has 25 years of leadership experience in technology development and driving operational innovations that enable complex 3d structures to become highly cost effective. Prior to ENOVIX he was Vice President of Operations for FormFactor, a Global Top 10 MEMS based Manufacturer, where under his operations leadership the company experienced a highly successful IPO along with significant capacity, revenue, and gross margin expansion . Following his Stanford graduate degree, he spent 17 years at IBM’s industry leading magnetoresistive recording head group driving high volume manufacturing of the lithographically based heads that were increasing in areal density by over 60% each year. Hard drive storage systems saw a areal density increase of 1000x during this period.
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About Enovix: Enovix develops 3D wave array energy storage architecture for Lithium based cells to improve manageability of the stored energy.
Mateo Jaramillo
CEO & Co-Founder of Form Energy
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About Form Energy: Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration.
Christopher Hopper
Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora Solar
Christopher Hopper is the Co-Founder and CEO at Aurora Solar.
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About Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Vic Shao
Founder and CEO of Amply Power
Vic is Chief Executive Officer of Green Charge Networks. Vic is the visionary and driving force behind the company’s overall direction and product strategy. He leads the development of its core technology and system infrastructure. Since 2009, Vic has been collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy and Fortune 500 companies on a ROI-driven energy storage appliance for the private sector, complementary to solar PV. With more than 15 years experience in software development and complex system implementation, Vic is passionate in applying software to improve power efficiency. He started his high tech career with Oracle Corporation, eventually leading engineering and product teams in Oracle’s middleware division. Prior to co-founding Green Charge Networks, Vic held engineering and management positions at several cloud computing software companies. He holds more than 12 published / granted patents in cloud computing and power efficiency. Vic holds a Master of Business Administration degree from UC Berkeley and an engineering degree from the University of Virginia, magna cum laude.
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About Amply Power, Music Intelligence Solutions: Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles.
Aram Shumavon
Co-Founder & CEO of Kevala
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About Kevala: Kevala provides data-driven insights for an evolving energy market by combining proprietary analytics with advanced grid mapping.
Jagdeep Singh
Founder & CEO of QuantumScape
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About QuantumScape: QuantumScape is a renewable energy company that develops solid-state battery technology to increase the range of electric cars.
Matthew Scullin
CEO of MycoWorks
Matthew L. Scullin is the CEO of MycoWorks.
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About MycoWorks: MycoWorks is a biotech company that delivers commercially viable non-plastic and non-animal materials to the market.
Lyndon Rive
Co-Founder & CEO of SolarCity
Lyndon Rive is the co-founder and CEO of SolarCity. He co-founded SolarCity in July 2006 with the goal of significantly reducing the cost of solar power and building a trusted national brand adopted by millions of homes. In its first full year of operation, SolarCity became the largest residential solar power provider in California, and by early 2008, SolarCity was a full-service solar power company—providing design, financing, installation, monitoring and services. Lyndon has grown SolarCity has grown to over 300 employees , serving more than 300 communities in three states in its first two years of existence. Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale distributed computer management. Lyndon negotiated the company’s partnership with Dell Computer, which acquired Everdream in 2007. A lifelong entrepreneur, Lyndon founded his first company at the age of 17 in South Africa, and in his spare time has been a member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey Team.
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About SolarCity: SolarCity provides solar energy services to homeowners, businesses, government, and non-profit organizations.
JB Straubel
Co-founder & CEO of Redwood Materials
JB Straubel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, a Nevada-based company building a sustainable future by creating circular supply chains, turning waste into profit and solving the environmental impacts of new products before they happen. Prior to founding Redwood, JB spent 15 years at Tesla as Co-founder and CTO. JB built one of the best engineering teams in the world at Tesla and among many topics, he led cell design, supply chain and led the first Gigafactory concept through the production ramp of the Model 3. JB had a direct role in both R&D, team building and operational expansion from prototype cars through to mass production and GWh-scale. JB holds a Bachelor of Science in Energy Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Energy Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Redwood Materials, Straubel Foundation: Redwood Materials is a battery recycling startup that makes electric vehicles and sustainable materials for circular supply chains.
Kang Sun
Chief Executive Officer of Amprius
Kang Sun, Ph.D. serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Amprius Inc. Kang Sun is a Venture Partner at WI Harper Group. He has over 20 years business creation and management experience in various industries and also has experience in developing businesses and building strategic alliances worldwide and also in capital investment and enterprise management. Kang Sun has led business at Fortune 500 companies as well as startup ventures. He founded RayTracker, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer since March 2009. Kang Sun served as Chief Operating Officer and President of JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (alternatively JA Solar Ltd) from September 2007 to August 2008. He served as a Managing Director of New Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer of new business and new product group at Applied Materials Inc. since 2005. From 2002 to 2005, Kang Sun served as the President and Vice President of Business Development of Microfabrica Inc. Before joining Microfabrica, he was responsible for business development and marketing at a semiconductor technology startup FlexICs. Kang Sun served as a Vice President of New Venture Business at Honeywell, General Manager of Optical Devices Business at AlliedSignal and Vice President of New Business and Technology at Oce Group, where he developed and executed financing, licensing, partnership, joint venture and acquisition deals. He also held senior management and engineering positions with Polaroid and IBM. Kang Sun served as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Index Capital Group in the U.S., since 2002. He founded and served as President of Index Technologies Inc. Kang Sun served as the Vice President at Microfabrica, Inc.
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About Amprius, Index Capital, RayTracker, WI Harper Group: Amprius develops an anode out of silicon nanowires for lithium-ion batteries.
Abhay Gupta
Founder & CEO of Bidgely
Abhay Gupta founded Bidgely with the mission to accomplish energy efficiency at a massive scale. He’s worked at a combination of energy and technology companies including Grid Net, Echelon and Sun Microsystems. He holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, M.S. from University of Southern California and MBA from Santa Clara University. Abhay is passionate about music and travel!
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Amit Narayan
Founder / CEO of Autogrid
Amit Narayan is the Founder and CEO of AutoGrid, Inc. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation at Stanford University, where he continues to lead an interdisciplinary project related to modeling, optimization and control of the electricity grid and associated electricity markets. Prior to founding AutoGrid, Dr. Narayan was the Vice President of Products at the publicly traded company Magma Design Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), where he led the product development and product management teams responsible for Magma’s flagship product in the design implementation area. Over one third of all semiconductor chips used in consumer electronic devices — such as smart phones, blue-ray players and video games — were designed using products developed by Dr. Narayan’s team at Magma. Prior to joining Magma, Dr. Narayan founded Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA), a venture-backed company in analog and radio-frequency semiconductor design software and served as its founding CEO and later Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all research and product development activities, as well as customer engagements. Under Dr. Narayan’s leadership, BDA saw its products adopted by over 100 semiconductor companies in the world (including 20 out of the top 25). For his work at BDA, Dr. Narayan’s received the EDN’s “Innovation for the Year” award in 2006.Dr. Narayan received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 25 papers about design automation, holds seven U.S. patents and is an active advisor to several startup companies in the Bay Area.
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About Autogrid, Berkeley Design Automation: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Alexandra Rasch Castillo
Founder and CEO of Caban Systems
Alexandra Rasch Castillo is founder and CEO at Caban Systems.
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About Caban Systems: Caban Systems designs a software enabled energy storage solution for telecom infrastructure providers worldwide.
Sam Steyer
Co-Founder and CEO of Greenwork
Sam Steyer is the co-founder and CTO of Greenwork.
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About Greenwork: Greenwork helps government-funded training programs find jobs for their graduates.
Christian Fong
Chairman, President and CEO of Spruce Finance
Christian Fong, CFA has been the CEO and President of Fong Management LLC since 2008. In addition to Fong Management LLC, Christian Fong serves as Independent Director at Terraform Power (NASDAQ: TERP) and at privately held Spruce Finance, Inc. Previously, he co-founded Renewable Energy Trust Capital, Inc (RET) in 2010, where he served in multiple executive roles, including COO, CIO, CFO and Director. Prior to founding RET, Christian Fong served as a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Capital Markets at AEGON / Transamerica, as CEO of Corridor Recovery, Inc., as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and as a candidate for Governor of Iowa. (Connect with him on LinkedIn for more details.) Christian Fong holds an M.B.A. with High Distinction from Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, and a B.S. in Statistics, summa cum laude, from Creighton University. He has earned the CFA and CCIM designations. Christian Fong and his wife Jenelle have three children: Luther, Ty Anders and Elsa. He was an award-winning varsity cross-country runner at Creighton and remains an avid endurance and snow-sports athlete.
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About Spruce Finance: Spruce provides consumer financing for residential solar systems, water conservation upgrades and energy-efficient home improvements.
Arcady Sosinov
CEO & Co-Founder of FreeWire Technologies
Founder at FreeWire Technologies
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About FreeWire Technologies: FreeWire Technologies is a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and power solutions.
Robyn Beavers
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueprint Power
Robyn started her career off as an energy efficiency consultant and then joined Google in 2004 as a direct report to the co-founders to help support on strategic initiatives as they took the company public. With the founders’ support, Robyn went on to found Google’s Green Business and Operations Strategy Group, the first business unit focused on sustainability strategy at the company. During her 3 years in this role, she spearheaded the approval and installation of the 1.7 MW solar PV project on the rooftops of the Mountain View HQ, created progressive green building guidelines for global Google offices, kick-started the corporation’s renewable energy project finance strategy, and served as a sustainability advisor on Google products. In 2008, she returned to Stanford for graduate school, during which she served as a Recovery Act Fellow for the Department of Energy in 2009. Robyn has since lived in Denmark, where she helped create a global NGO called WindMade on behalf of Vestas Wind Systems, and also served as Director of Commercialization for Distributed Power & Water products for Dean Kamen’s DEKA research. In 2013, Robyn joined NRG Energy to create the Station A Group, an internal innovation team focused on advancing microgrid strategy for NRG. In 2012, Robyn was selected to be featured on Makers.Com: Women Who Make America, a PBS/AOL video archive showcasing the stories of women from a diverse set of experiences and professions. Robyn has served as a board member for GridAlternatives.org, the US chapter of the UN Women organization, and also for the Carbon Lighthouse Foundation. She holds both a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Blueprint Power, NRG Energy: Blueprint Power is a real estate and energy tech company that turns buildings into urban power plants.
Michael Garland
President & CEO of Pattern Energy Group
Mr. Michael M. Garland is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Pattern Energy Group Inc. Mr. Garland will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer upon the completion of this offering. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Garland served as Chief Executive Officer of Pattern Energy Group LP (“Pattern Development”) since June 2009. Prior to joining Pattern Development, Mr. Garland was a partner of Babcock & Brown from 1986 to 2009, where he initiated and managed project finance activities, energy development and energy investment, and led Babcock & Brown’s North American Infrastructure Group. Prior to that, Mr. Garland worked for the State of California as Chief of Energy Assessments from 1975 to 1986. Mr. Garland currently serves on the board of directors of SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund North America, GP. We believe Mr. Garland’s extensive leadership experience enables him to play a key role in all matters involving our board of directors and contribute an additional perspective from the energy industry.
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About Pattern Energy Group: Pattern is a premium independent power company. We own and operate eight wind power projects in the United States, Canada and Chile that
Apoorv Bhargava
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of WeaveGrid
Apoorv Bhargava is the CEO and Co-founder of Weave Grid.
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About WeaveGrid: WeaveGrid develops electrification software for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles on the electric grid.
Eric Dresselhuys
Chief Executive Officer of ESS
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About Enian, ESS: ESS is a provider of long-duration energy storage solutions ideally suited for C&I, utility, microgrid, and off-grid applications.
Bill Lenihan
CEO of Zola Electric
Bill is an accomplished senior executive with a strong track record of improving companies and building enterprise value. He has a depth of experience across industries (technology, consumer, industrial, services) and functional areas. Prior to Off Grid Electric, Bill held roles at Switch Lighting, as well Calera Capital (formerly Fremont Partners), Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston. Bill holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA (honors) from UCLA.
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About Zola Electric: Zola Electric provides customers with in-depth reporting on system statuses, and performance and analysis of power consumption behavior.
Andrew Chiu
CEO of Verliant Energy
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About Topstone Investment, Verliant Energy: Verliant Energy has developed patented biochemical processes to facilitate improvements in the anaerobic digestion.
Tom Stepien
CEO & Co-founder of Primus Power
Tom Stepien, CEO, helped launch Primus Power in 2009 and has helped raise over $1000 million from venture capitalists, government grants and strategic investors. He has over 25 years of engineering, operations, and general management experience at small and large companies. Prior to joining Primus, Tom was a Vice President and General Manager at Applied Materials, where he had P&L responsibility for a $500M business unit with a complex set of semiconductor processing systems, global customers and support. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, has authored dozens of technical papers and is a co-inventor on several patents. He is a frequent speaker at energy conferences. Tom serves on industrial advisory board for MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing & Productivity and on the board of Special Olympics Northern California.
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About Primus Power: Primus Power manufactures big batteries for the Smart Grid and scalable energy storage in a Zinc Bromine flow battery.
Steve McDougal
CEO and Co-Founder of 3Degrees
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About 3Degrees: 3Degrees is a provider of carbon offset and renewable energy services and solutions.
Rob Lamkin
CEO of Cool Earth Solar
His journey to Cool Earth began at the Northern California Power Agency, where he held a variety of positions including assistant general manager responsible for all of its power plants. Rob then served as a corporate officer at two Fortune 500 energy companies—Calpine Corporation and Mirant Corporation. At Calpine, he had leadership responsibility for power plant development, project construction, asset management, trading and marketing, and project finance. Over 10,000 MW of new power plant capacity were developed under his direction, and over 6,000 MW were constructed and brought into commercial operations during his leadership. As Vice President at Mirant, Rob was responsible for the asset management of 3,100 MW of gas-fired power plants following the acquisition from Pacific Gas & Electric. He received a BS in electrical engineering from California State University. Rob is also active on the Advisory Boards of three clean technology companies.
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About Cool Earth Solar: Cool Earth Solar employs its proprietary concentrated photovoltaic technology to develop and operate power plants.
Michael Lee
CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve Energy
Michael Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Evolve Energy.
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About Evolve Energy, Octopus Energy: Evolve Energy is an energy company that helps consumers save their energy costs through AI and IOT.
Soumitra Mishra
Co-founder and CEO of Claro Energy
Soumitra Mishra and Kartik Wahi founded Claro Energy in 2011, since which Soumitra has been serving as one of its directors.
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About Claro Energy: Claro Energy operates in high-power deficit, diesel dependent, agrarian, and poor economic regions of India.
Arch Rao
Founder & CEO of Span.IO
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About Span.IO: Span.IO develops products to enable rapid adoption of renewable energy and deliver an intuitive interface for the home.
Andy Bogdan Bindea
Founder & CEO of Sigora
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About Sigora: Sigora provides microgrid management solutions making clean, reliable, and fairly-priced energy a reality in frontier markets.
Conlan O’Leary
Chief Executive Officer of Sighten
Conlan oversees all commercial aspects of the business and dabbles in front-end programming when he has time. Before Sighten, Conlan ran the financing product and pricing desk at Clean Power Finance with Graham.
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About Sighten: Sighten develops a software toolset to manage the complexity of distributed solar.
Mary Powell
CEO of Sunrun
Mary Powell is former chief executive of Vermont utility Green Mountain Power. She is currently the CEO of Sunrun.
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About Sunrun: Sunrun provides residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners.
Seth Baruch
CEO of Carbonomics
Seth Baruch is National Director for Energy and Utilities at Kaiser Permanente and is responsible for managing sustainable energy programs across the organization, including solar projects at a hundred different hospitals, data centers and medical office buildings. Part of this program includes the development of microgrids and rapid installation of electric vehicle charging stations at selected sites in California. Baruch is also helping lead the effort for Kaiser Permanente to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020. He has spent his career developing clean energy projects and programs. He led a multi-million dollar initiative at the Washington, DC-based Alliance to Save Energy to improve energy efficiency in the Former Soviet Union. He later founded his own company, QualityTons, that designed projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. QT helped clients around the world lower emissions and generate carbon offset credits, which were sold in the international carbon markets. QT was eventually acquired by Climate Change Capital, a large UK-based investment fund that financed clean energy projects. At CCC, Baruch managed project origination and executed the company’s first project in the United States.
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About Carbonomics: Carbonomics develops energy efficiency, renewable energy and microgrid projects.
Martin Milani
CEO & CTO of Sunverge Energy
Mr. Milani is Nexant’s CTO responsible for directing the development of the company’s advanced energy software applications and tools. He is an industry-recognized thought-leader and expert on SOA with more than 20 years of experience in distributed systems architecture, product design, and development spanning the evolution of distributed systems. He joined Nexant from Tidal Software (acquired by Cisco Systems), a leading provider of business process automation solutions for the enterprise, where he was CTO. Mr. Milani joined Tidal Software in 2006 through the acquisition of Intersperse Inc. (funded by Kleiner Perkins), a leading provider of monitoring and management solutions for the service-oriented enterprise, where he was president, CEO, and CTO. Prior to Intersperse he was CTO of iBuilding, a web services process-flow management and orchestration company where he led the design, application development, product management, support, and consulting teams. Under his leadership, iBuilding was named by CIO magazine as providing one of the 100 most innovative products of 2001. Previously, Mr. Milani was at the Times Mirror Corporation where he held the positions of chief internet technologist and strategist as well as chief enterprise architect for Times Mirror and the Los Angeles Times. Before joining Times Mirror, he held senior-level technology, consulting, and distributed system architect positions at Wells Fargo, IBM, Retix, and Locus computing. His areas of expertise include: massive parallel systems, asynchronous messaging systems, distributed operating systems and kernels, directory services, enterprise application integration, and systems and network management. Mr. Milani received a B.S. in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About Nexant, Sunverge Energy, Tidal Software: Sunverge Energy provides integrated solar solutions for distributed generation and storage.
Richard Matsui
CEO & Founder of kWh Analytics
Richard Matsui is the CEO of kWh Analytics. Mr. Matsui co-founded the firm in early 2012 and is responsible for overall strategic firm direction, firm operations and industry partnerships. Prior to kWh, Mr. Matsui was Chairman of the Advisory Council at Compass Partners. Previously, his company Honua Solutions, provided management consulting services to multiple leading global solar industry firms across Asia, Europe & the U.S. Prior to forming Honua Solutions, Mr. Matsui was a Consultant at McKinsey & Company in their Greater China office. For three years he established himself as the firm’s leading expert on the global PV solar industry, accumulating more experience than any pre-partner consultant. Mr. Matsui graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and is a Forbes’ “30 Under 30″ Award recipient. He is from Honolulu, Hawaii.
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About kWh Analytics: kWh Analytics provides solar asset data and portfolio analytics for the solar industry.
Jonah Greenberger
Co-Founder and CEO of BRIGHT
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About BRIGHT: BRIGHT enables the developing world with cleaner and more affordable energy.
Gia Schneider
Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Natel Energy
Gia is Natel’s CEO, responsible for setting strategy and company direction, and defining the commercial execution plan. Gia holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from MIT and has 13 years of experience in the energy and renewable industries. She provided strategic and tactical solutions to several major energy companies as a consultant for Accenture and has significant experience in energy-related strategy development and deal valuation. In 2005, Gia started the carbon emissions trading desk at Credit Suisse, growing it to a profitable business in its first year. Prior to Credit Suisse, she worked in the Strategy Group at Constellation, a leading power generation company. Gia is passionate about finding economically viable solutions to mitigate climate change, foster sustainable development and produce inexpensive renewable energy. In her spare time, she can be found surfing, kiting, cooking, dancing and gardening with friends and family.
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About Natel Energy: Natel Energy is a supplier of sustainable hydropower solutions that produce reliable renewable energy.
Bala Padmakumar
CEO of Amperics
Bala Padmakumar has been the CEO of Amperics Inc since 2011, a high performance energy storage play that originated at UCLA. In that time Amperics has transitioned from proof-of-concept to full characterized products that are scaling into volume production and revenue. Apart from being in founding and senior management roles over the course of his career he was also a venture partner at XSeed capital. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford. Bala’s enjoys working with a technical teams to develop from concept, a customer ready product and raise capital from a variety of sources to scale organizations to success.
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About Amperics: Amperics has developed an ultra capacitor with the same energy density as lead acid batteries.
Gary Wiseman
Founder & CEO of Brisbane Materials Technology
Gary Wiseman is Founder & CEO at Brisbane Materials Technology.
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About Brisbane Materials Technology: Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications.
Alfredo Rivela Pérez
CEO of TurningTables
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About TurningTables: TurningTables is a disruptive technology hub for energy innovators setting up new rules for the smart and sustainable use of energy.
Joe Zhou
CEO of Quidnet Energy
Joe Zhou is the CEO at Quidnet Energy.
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About Quidnet Energy: Quidnet Energy is a technology-driven energy company that powers the carbon-free electric grid.
Abraham Valentino
Founder & CEO of SOLARIT®
Abraham Valentino is the Founder and CEO of Solarit.
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About SOLARIT®: SOLARIT® provides smart solar energy installations to residentials and commercials clients.SOLARIT® is also a solar industry tech provider.
Jurgen Krehnke
Chief Executive Officer of Sunfolding
Jurgen Krehnke joined Sunfolding in August of 2017 as new CEO to lead the company into mass production and rapid business growth.
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About Sunfolding: Sunfolding develops new approaches to solar tracking for commercial and utility systems.
Whitney Gaynor
Co-Founder, CEO of Sinovia Technologies
Dr. Whitney Gaynor serves as the President and CEO at Sinovia Technologies.
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About Sinovia Technologies: Flexible printed OLED displays.
Yezin Taha
Founder & CEO of Nevados
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About Nevados: Nevados Engineering designs and manufactures solar ground installations.
Todd Thorner
CEO of JTN Energy
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About JTN Energy: JTN Energy is a power marketing and consulting firm.
Elizabeth Muller
Founder & CEO of Deep Isolation
Elizabeth is the co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, CEO of Muller & Associates LLC, and the Managing Partner of Global Shale. Previously, she was Director at Gov3 (now CS Transform) and Executive Director of the Gov3 Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 she was a policy advisor at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Elizabeth has advised governments in over 30 countries, in both the developed and developing world. She has extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and communications, especially with regard to technical issues. She developed numerous techniques for bringing government and private actors together to build consensus and implement action plans, and has a proven ability to deliver sustainable change. She has also designed and implemented projects for public sector clients, helping them to build new policies and strategies for government reform and modernization, collaboration across government ministries and agencies, and strategies for the information society.
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About Deep Isolation: Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste storage or disposal, a $500B untapped market.
Drew Reid
Chief Executive Officer of Saratoga Energy Corporation
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About Saratoga Energy Corporation: Developing an inexpensive production process
Greg Ryan
CEO & Co-Founder of Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG)
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About Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG): Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG) develops eco-friendly wastewater disinfection with the generation of renewable energy.
Kai Stephan
Founder & CEO of Pegasus Solar
Kai Stephan is CEO at Pegasus Solar.
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About Pegasus Solar: Pegasus Solar designs innovative rooftop mounting systems for global solar markets.
Vipul Gore
President & CEO of Gridscape Solutions
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About Gridscape Solutions: Gridscape Solutions is a software and service company.
John Boesel
President and CEO of CALSTART
John Boesel is the President and CEO of CALSTART, a national organization with more than 175 member companies that is dedicated to the growth of the clean transportation technology industry. John joined the organization as Vice President and was promoted to his current position in 2001. Prior to joining CALSTART, John worked as a legislative aide, focusing on environmental and energy policy, in the California State Assembly as well as being a commercial banker for Wells Fargo. In 1987, John taught English to graduate students at the Yunnan Institute of Technology in Kunming. John has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University and a member of the California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Collaborative.
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About CALSTART: CALSTART is dedicated to the growth of a clean transportation technologies industry that will Clean the air.
Gregory Stangl
CEO of Phoenix Energy
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About Phoenix Energy: Phoenix Energy is a private label power company that builds, owns and operates distributed, on-site bioenergy plants
Domenico Gelonese
Founder/CEO of Embertec
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About Embertec: Embertec develops digital energy efficiency technologies for various forms of appliance power wastage.
Harry Safstrom
CEO of Confluential Consulting
Harry Safstrom is the former Vice President of Organizational Development at DocuSign. Harry joined DocuSign in November 2011 as Vice President of Organizational Development, a function focused on linking strategy implementation, people and organizational culture to ensure DocuSign is a focused, productive and great place to work. This group includes Human Resources, Strategy Implementation, organizational culture and talent acquisition / development. Prior to joining DocuSign Harry spent 12 years as CEO of a consulting company serving a wide range of clients. From 1990 – 2000 he was Global Director of Organizational / Human Resource Development at Dow AgroSciences. Prior to that Harry spent 20 years in wide range of leadership positions in Logistics, Quality and People Development within Dow Chemical. Harry served as a commissioned officer in the US Army and holds a BSBA degree in Economics from the University of Denver.
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About Confluential Consulting: Confluential Consulting is a consultation firm that provides environmental services for energy development.
Hal Harvey
Chief Executive Officer of Energy Innovation
Hal Harvey is the CEO of Energy Innovation. He is also a Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Paulson Institute. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a network of foundations that promote polices to reduce the threat of climate change. From 2001-2008, he served as Environment Program Director at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. From 1990 through 2001, Hal served as founder and President of the Energy Foundation. Hal has served on energy panels appointed by Presidents Bush (41) and Clinton and has published two books and dozens of articles on energy and national security issues. He is President of the Board of Directors of the New-Land Foundation, and Chairman of the Board of MB Financial Corporation. Hal has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in Engineering, specializing in Energy Planning.
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About Energy Innovation: Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC is an energy and environmental policy firm.
Eric Reynolds
Founder & CEO of Inyenyeri
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About Inyenyeri, Marmot: Inyenyeri A Rwandan Social Benefit Company
