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Founder, Chief Product Officer, Nest, Founder

Nest s mission is to create a home that s thoughtful - one that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. The company focuses on simple, beautiful and delightful hardware, software and services. The Nest Learning Thermostat_C/ and Nest Energy Services keep you comfortable and address home energy consumption.

I am a global energy and sustainability leader, focusing on the role technologies play in accelerating growth and improving performance in restructuring energy markets. I have spent 35 years serving energy clients around the world: establishing strategic priorities to win in the energy transition, shaping capital investments, defining regulatory and policy approaches, driving operational improvement programs, and building capabilities to accelerate growth. During my time with McKinsey, I led and grew McKinsey’s Electric Power, Oil and Gas, and Sustainability practices. I have served energy clients ranging from a leading energy technology innovators to Fortune 500 oil companies and electric and gas utilities to National Oil Companies and energy marketers globally. From 2009 to 2010, I left McKinsey to serve as the Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, leading the Recovery Act Implementation. I had operational responsibility for the Department of Energy’s $35B in Recovery Act appropriations: reviewing more than 30,000 applications and funding more than 5,000 projects to accelerate US energy innovation across markets. In this role, I was a public voice on energy and environmental innovation, testifying before Congress and giving hundreds of press interviews and public speeches. I led the DOE efforts on a series of interagency policy and regulatory issues and held a Department of Defense Q clearance to address national security issues. I have written and spoken extensively on oil, gas, power, sustainability, and energy transitions to boards, investors, and major global forums. My book with Stefan Heck, Resource Revolution: Capturing the Biggest Business Opportunity in 100 years was published in April 2014, arguing that the combination of information technology with industrial technology is changing the way we produce and use natural resources and restructuring energy, agriculture, transportation markets globally. I have built a strong global network in energy and sustainability based on this combined client service, government service, and public voice contributions. I graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and earned an M.B.A. from Yale University’s School of Management. I serve on the Board Directors for the United Way of the Bay Area and St Mary’s College School of Economics and Business Administration. I teach a course on energy finance at the UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. I serve as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Petroleum Council. I am married with three adult children.