Team | VAYU

Vayu Team

Jim Kiles

Founder & CEO
Chairman BoD

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.

Ashish Badjatia

Founder, CFO & Board of Directors

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

August Kiles

Founder & Head of Product

BSE: Princeton University, 2018
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Senior Thesis: Deep Coaching through Deep Learning

Pat Hompe

Head of Optimization

AB, Mathematics
Princeton University, cum laude, 2019
Former Trader at Optiver

Tom Cassidy

VP/General Counsel

Tom joins VAYU after practicing law at some of the leading law firms in the country where he specialized in designing and crafting solutions for clients in the government space with an emphasis on creative financings. Tom has worked on infrastructure and energy issues starting with his tenure at a division of MWH a leading international engineering firm. Tom's recent client portfolio has included state and local municipalities along with renewable energy and water companies.

Daryn Sagel

Computational & Data Scientist
MS, Computational Science
BS, Physical Science (Concentration: Physics)
Applied & Computational Mathematics
Florida State University
Research: Computer vision, fluid dynamics, fire dynamics

Gelu Vrabie

Software Engineer/
Data Scientist

BS, Com Sci, Oxford

Neil Cohen

CRO

Respected marketing guru, startup expert & Associate Prof at SF State. Neil drives Vayu marketing and customer strategies.

Jon Chan

Jon Chan
Product Strategist

AB Mathematics, Princeton 2019
Former Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates

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Reg Beer

Advisor

Program Leader and Director of Collaborative Autonomy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Katherine Dykes

Advisor

Head of Section, Loads & Controls, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark;
formerly Manager at WISDEM Project at NREL, Golden, CO

Jon Sigerman

Contributor/Advisor

Co-Founder
Jon helps with business strategy & intellectual property development.
Former CEO Summation (Legal data SaaS acquired Wolters Kluwer 2004) and practicing attorney in intellectual property litigation.

Andrea Kates

Contributor/Advisor

Managing Director Futureproofing Next

Andrea supports Vayu's targeted marketing efforts and Thought Leadership Strategies

Doug Gilbert Smith

Contributor/Advisor

Co-Head of ERCOT Trading at Citi, Doug is Former VP Corp Strategy for Vayu (2018-2020), Doug is a visionary and wind finance expert.

Zach Lebovitz

Contributor/Advisor

Zach joined Vayu as a business and research analyst in 2018 left for London School of Business in 2019.

Zach supports Vayu with business strategy and European perspective

David_Kirkpatrick

Advisor

Marathon Capital
Director/Co-Head Western Region

Maximo Blandon

Advisor

Managing Director, Power & Industrial Technologies

Stephens, Inc.

Patrick Connolly

Advisor

Senior Director, Technology Marketing, Sales Enablement

Talend

Greg Hitchan

Advisor

Managing Partner, Tri-Valley Ventures

Dan Keiser

Advisor

Manager Commercial Development at Oxy Low Carbon Ventures;
GP, Rice Energy Owls

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Doug Gilbert Smith

Contributor/Advisor Co-Head of ERCOT Trading at Citi, Doug is Former VP Corp Strategy for Vayu (2018-2020), Doug is a visionary and wind finance expert.