Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Brian has been starting, building, and investing in “impact” businesses for the last 25 years with a focus on energy, data, marketplaces, finance, real estate, and security. He has deep expertise in scaling start-ups, corporate development, and product management in AI, EV's, CRE, marketplaces, e-commerce, edge computing/IoT, and last
mile grid electrification. He is passionate about creating simple solutions for complex problems.
Brian was the Founder and CEO of Stem, Inc. (NYSE: STEM), where he created the first AI powered energy storage systems that automate energy cost savings. Stem now operates the world's largest commercial energy storage network that supports a more efficient, sustainable, and resilient grid - creating value for commercial property owners, electric vehicles, solar, and utility scale energy deployments.
Most recently, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of CRE Simple, Inc., a financial technology company that partnered with the largest commercial real estate brokerage firms in the United States to revolutionize access to capital for investment properties, with over $16B in commercial real estate transactions managed on the platform.
Brian was a founding Board Member of Rubicon Labs, Inc., where he helped set the strategic course for Rubicon's next generation Internet of Things (IoT) security products and was an Entrepreneur in Residence with GE Ventures focused on energy, data, and marketplaces. He is also an investor and advisor to early stage companies in the EV, utility, big data, fintech, workflow, IoT, energy, and drones/robotics markets.
Prior to founding Stem, Brian spent 15 years selling, implementing, and operating world class e-commerce, financial transaction, and predictive analytics systems for companies such as Charles Schwab, Gap, Inc., Lexis-Nexis, Kmart, Martha Stewart, and The Body Shop.
He is a frequent guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at Duke, Wharton, and UC Law School San Francisco and is an active participant in the Duke Leadership Accelerator and Fuqua EDGE programs. He is a member of the Board of Visitors at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
