I am thrilled to share that I have joined Kraken Technologies as their VP Product - Vertically Integrated Utilities. In this role I will be responsible for ensuring that Kraken's industry leading platform addresses the needs, challenges and opportunities faced by vertically integrated utilities. This is particularly important at this moment as we collectively experience the catastrophic impacts of global climate change, and face an urgent need to accelerate our transition to a decarbonized future.
Kraken's enterprise SaaS platform supports that work by accelerating the global adoption of #renewable energy and helping utilities worldwide in their modernization journey. We achieve this by providing a constantly improving, easily configurable, end-to-end operating platform for energy utilities as they digitize, transform and decarbonize their energy system.
Kraken is already making a significant impact, positively affecting over 50 million energy customers by enabling their energy providers to use advanced data and machine learning capabilities to automate much of their energy supply chain. Kraken even helps manages utility-scale assets such as offshore wind, solar, and large-scale batteries, as well as handling hundreds of thousands of behind the meter devices, electric vehicles, and more.
When I rejoined the utility facing cleantech ecosystem a year ago with Jo-Jo Hubbard and her amazing team Electron I was excited to focus on a narrow (but important) solution to address the broader grid decarbonization challenge. But when the indefatigable Lara Beers connected me with the visionary James Eddison I saw a truly once in a lifetime high leverage opportunity to deploy my end-customer centric experience with utilities across the globe to support the design, implementation and deployment at scale of the next generation OS for utilities.
While I was a bit like Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire at that point (they had me at hello), it took many more conversations with the multi-talented new CEO of Kraken Amir Orad, an old friend from my Opower days, Tyler Rogers, and many more to close the deal. I'm thrilled to be reconnected with so many former colleagues, including my fellow "new guy" Pete Curtice, and Matthew Ward, and the many new faces who have welcomed me to the wild and crazy world of a global, high growth enterprise software business in the utility world.
Thank you everyone for your support on this journey and please reach out if you want to connect... We are hiring constantly (there were 75 people in my onboarding sessions!), there are a limitless set of interesting problems to work on, and the team is low ego, highly autonomous and motivated by impact.
