Former Colorado Public Utility Commissioner and two-time founder with two successful exits. Decades in executive management, public utility regulation, and power development. Leads corporate strategy, investor relations, and regulatory engagement.
Built by people who know utilities, markets, and clean power.
The Firma team has developed gigawatts of clean energy, deployed billions of dollars of capital, and helped define the need for clean firm capacity.
Our team
Former Commercial Director, Form Energy. Co-creator of the Formware optimization suite. Expertise spanning clean firm power origination, portfolio optimization, and decision systems. Leads commercial origination and deal structuring.
Tenured Professor at Princeton University. Co-creator of the GenX capacity-expansion and electricity-system optimization toolkit. Defined the concept of clean firm power. Expertise in clean energy technology, policy, and decision systems. Drives vision and optimization methodology behind FirmaOS.
Former BlackRock, Endeavor (Denham Capital portfolio company), Morgan Stanley, and GE Energy Financial Services. Brings deep infrastructure finance, capital markets, and energy investment experience to Firma's growth plan.
Former Tesla Energy, Equilibrium, Myst AI. Leads FirmaOS software and analytics—portfolio optimization, economic and power systems modeling, cloud infrastructure, and agentic development.
Ex-MD at EnCap portfolio company, Form Energy, Lazard. Leads finance structuring and capital strategy for energy infrastructure transactions.
Former MN8 Energy, Savion, and Avangrid. Led strategic M&A and development work specializing in battery energy storage systems.
Ex-MISO, Recurrent Energy. Builds transmission deliverability analyses and AI systems that turn grid-market evidence into usable decisions.
Former MN8 Energy, Dakota Power Partners, and Invenergy. Brings renewable energy development and environmental planning and permitting experience. Leads site origination and development for Firma's power projects.
Ex-AES. Leads utility-scale site evaluation, GIS analysis, and development pipeline management across target U.S. power markets.
Advisors
Former Vice President of Energy and General Manager of Energy & Renewables at Microsoft. Board member at VEIR and Protect Our Winters. Brings data center energy and grid infrastructure experience.
Former General Manager of Wholesale Power, Renewables, and Carbon-Free Energy at Microsoft, with earlier energy roles at Google and Amazon Web Services. Brings large-scale data center energy procurement experience.
Former Energy Projects Manager at Amazon Web Services, where he worked on more than 4 GW of energy projects. Electrical engineer and author of the Data Center Flexibility Framework.
Former Managing Director and Global Head of Climate Infrastructure at BlackRock. Earlier CFO and COO of Community Energy, with roles at Babcock & Brown and FPL Group. Brings energy infrastructure investment experience.
Former President of Community Energy and VP of Development, East at AES Clean Energy. Brings utility-scale solar and battery development experience. Advises Firma on power supply strategy and project development.
Team experience
Public utility commissioners
Firsthand experience setting policy and approving infrastructure.
Clean energy developers
Proven record across solar, storage, and grid infrastructure.
Grid operators
Deep operational knowledge of systems, constraints, and risk.
Tens of gigawatts deployed
Across multiple markets with consistent outcomes and performance.
Open roles
Join the team building the fastest path to power.
Business Development
Director of Utility Partnerships
We are seeking a Director of Utility Partnerships to lead Firma’s work with regulated and unregulated utilities. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in utility business development, energy origination, commercial structuring, and the regulatory pathways that shape large-load transactions.
View role detailsResponsibilities and qualifications
What you’ll do
- Develop and Execute Utility Strategy: Lead the creation of Firma’s origination, structuring, and partnership strategy with a particular focus on utility partnerships, focusing on how our clean-firm portfolios can solve utility capacity and energy needs and accelerate the interconnection of large loads.
- Design Partnership Structures: Work directly with utility leadership to design commercial and technical partnerships that align Firma’s power strategies with utility integrated resource plans (IRPs) and operational requirements.
- Lead Load Interconnection Projects: Collaborate with utilities introduced by Firma’s large-load customers to navigate complex interconnection and power supply agreements.
- Proactive Relationship Building: Cultivate a deep network within investor-owned utilities (IOUs), cooperative utilities, and municipal utilities to identify proactive partnership opportunities ahead of market demand.
What helps
- Extensive experience in utility business development, energy origination, regulatory affairs, or a related field within the power sector.
- Existing relationships with key decision-makers at major IOUs, Coops, or Munis.
- Proven track record of successfully negotiating complex commercial agreements or partnerships with major U.S. utilities.
- Deep understanding of utility business models, cost-recovery mechanisms, and the regulatory processes governing large load interconnections.
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