JEFF WOLFECo Founder

United States - Houston, Texas

Respected energy and cleantech industry leader and serial entrepreneur with broad experience and success, now leading the Electrification of Transportation and massive grid transformation. Innovative, strategic, and creative team builder, worker, and leader inventing the future of energy systems while delivering bottom line results. Strong functional experience in business development, creating & managing strategy, fundraising, engineering, marketing, operations, EPC, & policy activities. Recognized leader in grid transformation and creating the US solar photovoltaic industry. Long history of successful strategic planning & execution of growth strategies in diverse & changing markets internationally. Proven leadership & communication skills. Systems focused approach to problem solving, based on keen insights into emerging opportunities, trends, & challenges. Driven with a passion to create positive actions to safeguard the climate.

Turned around Americas Region for Tritium. Steered Shell Connected Energy into current strategy, and executed globally. Created new strategic direction for Just Energy in commercial electricity sales. Founded and grew groSolar, a groundbreaking national solar energy residential/commercial EPC and product distribution company (now "EDF Renewables Distributed Solutions"). Extensive consulting on solar and utility strategy, policy, regulation, programs, product development, and market entry and development, with work in North Americas and Africa. Created multiple new sales processes and programs in residential and commercial on- and off- grid distributed energy sales, managed national sales teams, and negotiated contracts with multinational corporate buyers. Previous engineering consulting on >$1B of large facility and cogeneration plant design. Strong experience with power generation, conversion, distribution, and user loads, from microgrid to utility scale.