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The AlsoEnergy team represents 300 combined years of support and service experience led by some of the industry’s most innovative entrepreneurs and knowledgeable personnel.

John Carrington

Chief Executive Officer

John is the Chief Executive Officer of Stem and AlsoEnergy where he is a global leader in clean energy intelligence and energy optimization software.

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Robert Schaefer

President

Robert is the President and co-founder of AlsoEnergy where he has led the company to become the leading independent provider of monitoring systems for the global renewable energy industry.

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Patrick King

Vice President of Sales

Pat King is Vice President of Sales for AlsoEnergy and brings his passion for developing effective sales

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Kevin Smart

Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing

Kevin coordinates sales and marketing efforts across all markets served by AlsoEnergy.

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Sushain Sharma

Business Development Manager, India

Sushain heads the India office at AlsoEnergy, which manages projects and operations in India and the Asia Pacific region.

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Alen Chang

Regional Manager, APAC

As a qualified Application Engineer, Alen oversees the business development and technical support of AlsoEnergy in the Asia Pacific region.

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John Carrington

Chief Executive Officer

As CEO and Director, John Carrington leads the energy storage and analytics movement at Stem. With more than 25 years of leadership experience at technology, energy, and industrial companies, John comes to Stem from MiaSole, the world’s largest CIGS-based thin film solar company, where he was CEO and Director. Prior to MiaSole, John was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at First Solar, where he grew the company revenue from $250 million to more than $2 billion, and opened markets in the U.S., Asia and Europe. John spent over 16 years at General Electric, most recently as General Manager and Chief Marketing officer of the $7 billion GE Plastics, where he led global innovation, new technology efforts and product strategy. John was part of a small executive team that executed on the $12 billion sale of GE Plastics to SABIC in 2007. He is an alumnus of the University of Colorado, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing and economics.

Robert Schaefer

President

Robert is the President and co-founder of AlsoEnergy where he has led the company to become the leading independent provider of monitoring systems for the global renewable energy industry. Prior to AlsoEnergy, Robert held various positions in of Breese Hill LLC including C.O.O., V.P. Engineering, President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Breese Hill, Robert developed leading products for Hertrich Development, MaxOptix and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Robert’s education includes a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T and a Master of Science in Control Systems from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Patrick King

Vice President of Sales

Pat King is Vice President of Sales for AlsoEnergy and brings his passion for developing effective sales and operation teams to execute winning revenue strategies.

Pat has worked in the renewable energy industry for the last decade starting at Suniva, a solar cell and module manufacturer as Vice President of Sales and then transitioning to utility scale development as aVice President at Innovative Solar Systems. Previously, Pat worked in high-tech working for Apple and Earthlink in various sales management roles.

Pat is an alumnus from Indiana University Bloomington with a Bachelors of Arts, Economics and Computer Science.

Kevin Smart

Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing

Kevin coordinates sales and marketing efforts across all markets served by AlsoEnergy. Prior to joining AlsoEnergy, Kevin served as the Vice President of North America Sales for CEC Great Wall. Kevin started his career in the solar industry in 2009 with Satcon and served in multiple roles managing the business development, international sales, and service teams. Prior to Satcon, Kevin worked in sales and business development at HP, Sybase, and Arthur Andersen.

Kevin is a graduate of Alma College and received his MBA and Law Degree from Willamette University.

Sushain Sharma

Business Development Manager, India

Sushain heads the India office at AlsoEnergy, which manages projects and operations in India and the Asia Pacific region. He has led strategy and execution, and built an agile organization of solar energy professionals who have delivered critical projects in record time. In the past, Sushain had led strategy and sales, and built high performing teams as regional head at Snapdeal and Godrej. His last entrepreneurial foray saw him build a technology product in the logistics space.

Sushain holds a Masters in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelors in Technology from G.B.Pant University, Pantnagar in India.

Alen Chang

APAC Regional Manager, APAC

As a qualified Application Engineer, Alen oversees the business development and technical support of AlsoEnergy in the Asia Pacific region. Alen assists clients on all hardware and software installation. Alen has enormous practical experiences on zero export control (anti-reverse) on grid-connected solar systems. Alen has over 20 years of solar system engineering experience, developing products and software at companies including Satcon, Constellation Energy, and United Solar Ovonic Inc. Prior to joining AlsoEnergy, Alen was EVP at SIC (USA).

Alen received a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering at Texas Southern University.

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