Leadership

Jim Kiles

Founder & CEO

Chairman of the Board

Successful technology executive since 1995 (Intel, Convera, Eyetide, Visage, Cloudmark, Ground Control). In 2015, as a DOE advisor, Jim discovered the opportunity that became Vayu and has been laser focused ever since.

August Kiles

Co-Founder

Simulation Architect

BSE (Operations Research) Princeton University

Responsible for Vayu Simulation, the core system that enables all Vayu services and products.

Gelu Vrabie

Chief Technology Officer

Oxford University, Com. Sci.

Responsible for all Vayu technology and infrastructure.

Experienced Data Scientist who spent time at Facebook and Funding Circle.

Neil Cohen

Chief Revenue Officer

Over 30 years of sales and marketing leadership working with Fortune 500 companies and ground-breaking startups, including energy industry work with STEM and Agilon Energy.

Patrick Hompe

Lead Site Planning, Simulation, and Data Science

BA (Mathematics) Princeton University

MS (Mathematics) Waterloo

Anthony Lavezzo

Chief of Staff and Lead, Front End Development

B.S., UC Santa Barbara

We're hiring!

Data Scientists
Wind Systems Operating Engineers
Drone Control Engineers
Front End Development Engineer
Cloud systems engineers (AWS, Azure certified)
Technical Assistant
Financial Analyst
Marketing support
Channel Sales
Customer Success

Doug Gilbert Smith

Advisor
Wind Markets Strategy

Katherine Dykes

Advisor
Wind Systems

David Kirkpatrick

Advisor
Wind Finance

Dan Keiser

Investor
Rice Energy Owls
Valhalla Investment Grp.

Jon Sigerman

Advisor

IP Strategy