Cleantech Group

Emily Fritze

Emily is Director of Strategy at Powerhouse, a clean energy incubator and seed-stage venture fund in Oakland. Prior to Powerhouse, Fritze served as the Senior Director for Energy & Environment in the Office of Cabinet Affairs in the Obama White House. Previously, she worked as a special advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. Fritze has also served in federal energy policy roles as an aide in the Office of the Secretary at the US Department of Energy and in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Andrew Hoffman

Andrew has developed over a GW of clean energy – demand response, solar, and storage – over his past 15 years in energy. He leads Market Development at Leap, launching new demand response and grid services markets. Leap’s platform evolves distributed energy resources into grid actors, providing extra income for partners while enabling a resilient and clean grid.

Prior to Leap, Andrew directed strategy and policy at CalCom Energy, a leading US developer of solar and battery storage projects. Before CalCom, he managed the Demand Response team at Pacific Gas & Electric. His team operated over 600 MW of residential and commercial DR, as well as data platforms and services such as Share My Data. Prior, he built and managed DR portfolios throughout North America with EnerNOC. There he developed a variety of innovative DR products: load following & ancillary services for renewable balancing, sub-1 second frequency response, as well as a number of capacity products.

Andrew has served as an expert witness at the California PUC on optimal dispatch of DR resources, as well as on North American capacity markets. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a BA from Dartmouth. A self-professed ‘energy geek,’ Andrew has a solar+storage microgrid at his home and is committed to changing the world of energy to leave his children and future generations a world as vibrant and diverse as the one we enjoy today.

David King

David C. King is the CEO of FogHorn Systems, the leader in edge intelligence software for Industrial IoT. Prior to joining FogHorn, David co-founded AirTight Networks, Inc., a technology leader in secure cloud-managed Wi-Fi, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2004-2015, leading the company through four successful up rounds of venture capital funding. Prior to AirTight, he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Proxim Inc., a pioneer in WLANs and the first publicly traded Wi-Fi company, from 1993-2002.

David led Proxim through a successful IPO in December 1993 and 20x revenue growth as a public company during his tenure as CEO. Before Proxim, David served as Vice President of Marketing and Customer Service for Vitalink Communications Corp., an early leader in wide area networking from December 1990 to November 1992. Prior to Vitalink, he was a senior manager and a practice leader in both the high technology and healthcare practices of McKinsey & Company from 1985 to 1990. In addition to his board positions at AirTight and Proxim, he served on the boards of Netopia, Inc., Cayman Systems and Mobilestar Inc., all pioneering companies in the broadband access and networking industries. David holds an BA in Economics, as well as MBA and JD degrees, all from Harvard University.

Aram Shumavon