Jim is an advisor and strategist who helps technology startups and other socially-minded businesses succeed in regulated markets. Jim founded The Ad Hoc Group to help startups and investors scale innovative businesses to solve our most pressing climate and sustainability challenges. Jim is also the co-host of CityLab's podcast, Technopolis, about how technology is disrupting, remaking and sometimes overrunning our cities. Jim has been a Senior Advisor to Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s urban venture, and spent six years building and leading the global regulatory team at Opower, Inc., a Software-as-a-Service company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. At Opower, Jim supported the full life cycle of the business from startup to IPO to acquisition by Oracle in 2016. Before entering the private sector, Jim was a climate negotiator in the Obama Administration where he helped broker the Copenhagen Climate Accord in 2009. Jim has also worked in the State Department, Defense Department and in Congress. Jim is an advisor and strategist who helps technology startups and other socially-minded businesses succeed in regulated markets. Jim founded The Ad Hoc Group to help startups and investors scale innovative businesses to solve our most pressing climate and sustainability challenges. Jim is also the co-host of CityLab's podcast, Technopolis, about how technology is disrupting, remaking and sometimes overrunning our cities. Jim has been a Senior Advisor to Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s urban venture, and spent six years building and leading the global regulatory team at Opower, Inc., a Software-as-a-Service company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. At Opower, Jim supported the full life cycle of the business from startup to IPO to acquisition by Oracle in 2016. Before entering the private sector, Jim was a climate negotiator in the Obama Administration where he helped broker the Copenhagen Climate Accord in 2009. Jim has also worked in the State Department, Defense Department and in Congress.

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  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in SWTCH Energy

  Smart Charging for Busy Buildings