Management brings over 100 years of deep climate AI experience to support the company’s rapid expansion since joining Schneider Electric
redwood city, california, December 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Provider Autogrid Systems Co., Ltd.today announced the appointment of the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer. Scott McGarahan; Chief Operating Officer rahul car; Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development, Tad Piper; When Extended management teamMcGaraghan leads all of AutoGrid’s revenue-intensive functions, including sales, marketing and industry solutions. An eight-year veteran of the company, Kar will lead AutoGrid’s product, engineering and customer delivery teams. Piper leads the overall corporate strategy and new strategic partnerships to accelerate AutoGrid’s growth.
“Climate change and the race to achieve 100% renewable energy make the need to leverage distributed energy resources more essential than ever. Amit Narayan, Founder and CEO of AutoGrid. “Scott McGarahan, rahul car, Tad Piper Our expanded management team builds on AutoGrid’s decade of innovation and guides us, our customers and partners through the next phase of this explosive global growth. “
As a CRO, McGaraghan has over 25 years of experience in the cleantech space, specifically demand response and VPP. Formerly VP of International Business Development at Voltus, McGaraghan is an expert in demand response and his VPPs for residential, commercial and industrial markets. He spent more than a decade in a leadership role at his Nest and was responsible for launching the hugely successful Nest Rush Hour Rewards program. McGaraghan has also served as an advisor to a number of clean energy technology companies and was a VPP pioneer in his early days as a core member of the EnerNOC team. McGaraghan has completed undergraduate and graduate studies. Stanford University.
“The transition to clean energy is one of the most important challenges of our lifetimes, and AutoGrid has taken on the responsibility of accelerating that transition,” said McGaraghan.
Kar, the newly promoted COO, spent eight years as AutoGrid’s SVP and GM. Throughout his career, Kar has focused on developing and delivering innovative energy solutions for industry, utilities and government. He has designed turbomachinery, managed a large technology strategy project for the U.S. Department of Energy, and developed machine learning and optimization products for various energy companies. Prior to joining AutoGrid, he worked at Navigant Consulting (now Guidehouse) and he worked at Praxair’s cryogenic R&D center. MIT.
“Innovation is in the DNA of AutoGrid and we are excited to take our solution to the next level,” said Kar. “By connecting key customers across the energy sector and expanding our reach with Schneider Electric, we are at the forefront of mitigating climate risks and accelerating the energy transition.”
As Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development, Piper brings 20 years of experience serving as a catalyst for the growth of emerging businesses. A nationally recognized Wall Street research leader in the software and technology markets, he has held a variety of his C-level and leadership positions, driving innovation and sales to drive rapid growth across multiple industries. I have achieved it. Most recently, Piper developed some of the largest demand response his resources in the United States.
“The energy market is undergoing the greatest evolution in our lifetimes due to climate change and the rapid growth of renewable energy resources,” said Piper. “AutoGrid has spent the last decade preparing for this moment. I am thrilled to join and strategically expand the company at this critical time.”
Together with the global VPP market Expected arrival $6.74 billion by 2028, AutoGrid has made a number of other strategic investments to expand and evolve its management team. The company now benefits from an extensive list of recently appointed industry veterans.
- Charlie BrotherVice President of Delivery and Customer Operations, most recently at Voltaiq, where he led customer success, and previously held leadership roles at Opower, Urbint, Capgemini, and AgCert.
- John PerryVice President of Marketing and Communications, has held leadership roles at Hitachi Energy, ABB, GE, and Oracle.
- Alex PrattVice President of Business Development, worked for Metrus Energy and In-Q-Tel, and was an officer in the United States Navy SEAL before joining AutoGrid.
- Anton Prenesis Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and a veteran of IBM, EMC, Dell and Cardinality.io.
Earlier this year, Schneider Electric’s acquisition of AutoGrid enabled the two companies to offer the industry’s most complete grid modernization offering, including a joint Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS). Ranked #1 by Guidehouse Research.
About Autogrid
Founded in 2010, AutoGrid is committed to accelerating access to sustainable energy to address the climate crisis. AutoGrid’s AI-driven software makes electric vehicles, batteries, rooftop solar, utility-scale wind, and other distributed energy resources (DER) smarter. AutoGrid realizes the vision of a new decentralized, decarbonized and democratized energy world by enabling forecasting, optimization and real-time control of millions of energy assets at unprecedented scale I’m making it for With over a decade of pioneering experience worldwide, AutoGrid enables fleet owners, energy-as-a-service companies, renewable project developers, utilities and electricity retailers to create intelligent, scalable virtual power plants. It provides the ability to build, own, operate and participate. (VPP), enabling us to break our dependence on fossil fuel-based energy. The AutoGrid Flex™ platform manages over 6,000 MW of VPPs in 17 countries.
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