Experience

Southern Beams Builds
• United States
• Solar Electric Power Generation
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Executive Officer

  • Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months

Wattson’s
• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Creative Director

  • Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months

Planet Electric
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director of Research, Developments, & Decarbonization

  • Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months

ElectroPlants
• United Kingdom
• Retail Office Equipment
• Executive Director

  • Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months

AirCapture
• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Advisor

  • Aug 2022 - 1 year 5 months


Banyan Infrastructure

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & Advisor

  • 2018 - 5 years

  San Francisco, California Banyan Infrastructure enables everyone to develop, invest, own, and receive infrastructure services by connecting funding to payments with financial Blockchain technology managed by smart contracts. The Banyan Infrastructure platform reduces investment transaction costs of negotiating and managing multi-contract Special Purpose Vehicles while increasing transparency by providing verifiable digital financial mechanisms to contractual obligations.



Black Rock Labs

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Co-Founder & Board of Directors

  • Jan 2017 - 7 years

  Black Rock Labs is organized as a non-profit 501 (c)(3) innovation technology incubator to accelerate regenerative solutions and networked technologies at Black Rock City, Burning Man Regional events and the world at large. Black Rock Labs supports all stages of products and processes from development to scale.



Hanwha Q CELLS America Inc. (Acquired GELI)

• VP Strategy

  • Jan 2021 - Aug 2022

  San Francisco Bringing Internet of Energy solutions for 100% Renewable Energy World by June 2034.



Geli

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President, Director of Product, & Co-Founder

  • Apr 2016 - Dec 2020

  San Francisco As President, Board Member, and Director of Product, Ryan directs Geli's product and strategy for the company's mission to getting the world to run on 100% renewables though a distributed, transactive, services-based energy network called the Internet of Energy, #IoEn.

• Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

  • Jan 2008 - Apr 2016

  San Francisco Geli CEO responsible for deploying an Internet of Energy business model of providing software-based energy services through networked devices and assets, focusing on C&I energy storage applications, microgrids, and EV charging integration.

• Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder

  • Apr 2013 - Jul 2014

  San Francisco Growing Energy Labs, Inc. (GELI) produces the Energy Operating System (EOS) for your energy management and energy business. GELI networks energy storage and develops software for personal and business MicroUtilities, microgrids and energy storage systems. GELI specializes in energy management architectures, power and energy hardware, firmware and web-ware, integrated energy harvesting techniques and integrated energy systems for application and location specific electronics.



iCeL Systems, Inc.

• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • May 2008 - Feb 2010

  Designer, Manufacturer and Integrator of Advanced Distributed Energy Systems.


Seed of Life Activation Project
• Co-Director

  • 2005 - 2010

Watts Up America
• Co-Director of Academic Development; VP Manufacturing

  • Dec 2007 - Dec 2008


ISPACE/artlab

• Senior Engineer

  • 2006 - 2008

  Develop communications and energy systems for natural learning toys including wireless battery charging electronics.



MIT

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Energy Designer and Integrator

  • Jul 2004 - Nov 2007

  Energy systems design for illumination, life, love and everything. Post-doc in the Department of Material Science and Engineering developing methods of assembling small batteries and building them.

• Post Doc Research Scientist

  • 2004 - 2007

  Developed microbattery architectures, nano-assembly techniques utilizing electrical fields, virus-based batteries and self-assembled batteries. Helped organize MIT's Solar7 solar home.



Naval Research Laboratory

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Post-Doc Researcher

  • Oct 2001 - Aug 2003

  Microbattery and energy harvester development and manufacture. Director of Central Intelligence Post-Doc



Naval Research Lab

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Post Doc Research Scientist

  • 2001 - 2003

  Developed micro-battery and energy harvesting technologies.