We’re rebuilding our country
Technical teams are solving the great challenges of our time. They’re building low-carbon energy systems and healthy, modern buildings to electrify everything. We support them and get them to market faster!
Team
Sam Steyer
CEO
Sam is co-founder and CEO of Greenwork. He was previously a co-founder and Head of Analytics at Station A. Sam had the privilege of traveling the country on his dad Tom Steyer’s presidential campaign. He got his A.B. in Applied Math at Harvard and M.S. at Stanford, where he was proud Co-President of the Stanford Energy Club.
Gautam Jayaraman
CTO
Gautam is co-founder and CTO of Greenwork. His 20 years making products have been spread between companies he started (Rickshaw, Jamglue), wildly successful companies he joined (DoorDash, Dropbox, Amazon), and innovative experiences (Media Lab). A long time ago, he got degrees from MIT.
Mime Čuvalo
Principal Engineer
Mime brings two decades of experience helping build such mainstays as YouTube, Firefox, and Dropbox. More recently he worked on tackling the climate crisis via political avenues at Mobilize and Rewiring America. In the past, he once constructed a sustainable house with a team from start-to-finish and, even further back, remembers creating a local neighborhood eco club when he was 8 because saving the planet was and still is the right thing to do.
Jamie Finch
Head of Business Operations
Jamie has spent his career building customer-focused teams at startups. He was the first business hire at MOD Pizza & Mason (YC W16) and built teams to drive rapid sales growth. He is also a passionate outdoorsman and was a founding member of the City of Issaquah’s Environmental Board where he currently serves as Chair.
Natalie Valentin
MBA Associate
Natalie has spent her career scaling partnerships and operations teams at startups in both energy (Sparkfund) and workforce development (Guild Education). She’s currently pursuing her MBA at Berkeley-Haas where she’s a Fellow at the Center for Responsible Business. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies & Political Science from Middlebury College.
Advisors
Sarah Rizk
Sarah Rizk brings over a decade of experience in climate science, clean energy entrepreneurship, and green transportation to Greenwork. Sarah has been a leader at startups spanning electric motorcycles to IOT applications in the waste industry. She served in the EPA during the Obama Administration. Sarah has deep operational experience with expertise in training and scaling workforces. Sarah is currently a Staff Product Operations Manager at Cruise Automation. She holds an MBA and an MS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
Komal Kirtikar
Komal Kirtikar is an advisor for Greenwork who brings almost 10 years of marketplace start-up experience: she was the first General Manager at Lyft and helped grow the company to national scale. She also provides relevant learnings from 3 years as an executive in workforce development at Opportunity@Work. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Univ of Florida and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Manos Saratsis
Manos is a software engineer and architect with a passion for cities, electrification, and thoughtful design. He has years of experience designing and developing software products to enable data-driven climate decision making for buildings and cities.
Manos is currently the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Station A, where he has helped build the core patented technology, scale the software platform, expand the user network, and grow both the SaaS and Marketplace side of the business. He received a Master of Science in Urbanism and Building Technology while conducting research at the MIT Sustainable Design Lab. He has published numerous papers on energy modeling and its implications for urban planning and real estate development.
Michael Grabstein
Michael, passionate about energy and efficiency, has over 15 years of experience in renewable energy and grid modernization. He started his career on San Francisco rooftops leading residential and commercial PV installations. He later managed a technical sales and marketing team for a transmission technology start up. Currently, Michael is a Staff Project Manager at Tesla focusing on deployment of several GWhs of utility scale Battery Energy Storage Systems. Michael earned a Bachelors in Physics from Colorado College and a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.
Nicole Staple
Nicole Staple is an entrepreneur and growth-minded executive now focused on the new climate economy. Currently, Nicole is Senior Growth Advisor at Rewiring America. She has over fifteen years of experience in consumer technology, brand building, digital marketing, sales, finance, business operations and strategy in high growth environments. She was an early pioneer in disrupting the large, outdated wedding industry and built a multi-million dollar direct-to-consumer brand with a team of 100+. Nicole earned a Bachelors in Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
Values
- 🚀The future is awesome — We’re working to make construction a net-zero carbon emissions industry. We also want it to grow in other ways: for us to build more homes, bigger shared buildings, and more beautiful structures, while offering construction workers great jobs with good, equitable pay.
- 🛠️Jobs in every ZIP code — Clean energy and electrification will take all of us, across the United States, and beyond.
- ☮️We are a part of a broader movement — We don’t view others in climatetech as our competitors. They are our brothers and sisters in arms.
- 🤝Be worthy of trust — In construction, trust breakdowns lead to serious consequences: time and cost overruns, lawsuits, and, in the worst case, safety issues. We act in a trustworthy manner ourselves and we work to create trust between members of our community.
- 🌎No trade-offs between people and planet — We only do things that are good for the climate and good for workers; the ends don’t justify the means and we don’t sacrifice one for the other.
- ⚡Long-term thinking, short-term urgency — We believe we’re all going to work here for a decade. What decision can we make today that we’ll be happy with ten years from now? We do this work for our grandchildren, not our quarterly earnings. At the same time, we know that it’s the 11th hour for climate change, so we work quickly and have a bias to action.
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