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TEAM

Jim Kiles

Co-Founder & CEO

25+ years experience in venture capital and software startups as an investor, executive, and advisor.

Successfully led 8 startups to exits and founded multi-billion dollar 'spin out' as Managing Director at Intel Capital. Founding CEO at two successful SaaS/Cloud companies.

Daryn Sagel

Research Analyst

BS, Florida State University
Physical Science (Concentration: Physics)
Applied & Computational Mathematics
Research: Fluid dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, machine learning techniques

August Kiles

VP Product

BSE, Princeton University
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Senior Thesis: Deep Coaching through Deep Learning

Ashish Badjatia

CFO

20+ years experience in international trade and global investment banking.

4 years' experience as COO of Ystrategies Corp.

Holds Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University

Neil Cohen

CRO

30+ years experience creating, building and managing brands for companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Founder and CMO of CampSix. Held executive marketing and sales positions at SEGA, Hilton, Arby’s and Zircon Corporation.

Jon Sigerman

Co-Founder

20+ years experience in enterprise SaaS.

Founded and led industry-leading legal software company, acquired in 2004.

20+ years experience as attorney in intellectual property litigation.

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ADVISORS

Doug Gilbert-Smith

VP CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

20+ years experience in trading, sales & risk management at both Investment Banks
and energy trading firms

Spent 7 Years at JP Morgan where he managed all physical and financial risk in the
ERCOT and Western US Electricity markets.

Andrea Kates

Strategic Partnerships

Author of "Get Your Next"
Former CEO LaunchPad Central

Zach Lebovitz

Co-Founder

Mechanical engineer and renewable energy technology analyst.

5+ years experience in energy technology industry, including simulation, operations, and data analysis.

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Katherine Dykes

Head of Section, Loads & Controls, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark;

formerly Manager at WISDEM Project at NREL, Golden, CO

Reg Beer

Assistant Director AI Solutions and Manager UAV Sense & Avoid Program

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Patrick Connolly

Director, Sales Enablement, Talend

David Kirkpatrick

Director, Co-Head, Western Region, Marathon Capital

Greg Hitchan

Founder & GP, Tri-Valley Ventures

Dan Keiser

Manager Commercial Development, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures;

GP Rice Energy Owls

Max Blandon

Managing Director, Stephens & Co.,

Head of International & Power & Industrial Technologies

Ashish Badjatia

CFO 20+ years experience in international trade and global investment banking. 4 years' experience as COO of Ystrategies Corp. Holds Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University