# Matt Golden

> Matt Golden is a Sausalito-based entrepreneur and energy-efficiency policy advocate who founded Sustainable Spaces and later led OpenEE, renamed Recurve in 2019. His career connects hands-on home retrofits, energy-efficiency financing standards and open-source measurement of demand-side grid resources. He stepped down as Recurve CEO in 2024; Pandotic AI lists him as a founder and Cleantech Writing identifies him as CEO of Conduct Energy.

- **Role:** CEO at Conduct Energy; Founder at Pandotic AI
- **Organizations:** Recurve, Open Energy Efficiency (OpenEE), Sustainable Spaces, Conduct Energy, Pandotic AI, Environmental Defense Fund, Investor Confidence Project, Green Business Certification Inc., Efficiency First
- **Education:** BA in International Relations, Georgetown University
- **Known for:** Founded two businesses that used the Recurve name, with the later venture focused on demand-side energy analytics., Helped lead the development of CalTRACK methods and OpenEEmeter with utilities, public agencies and technical stakeholders., Helped develop Investor Confidence Project standards and Investor Ready Energy Efficiency certification.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2004** — Worked in management consulting at Ernst & Young, founded Travelkey.com and worked in solar project design and sales.
- **2004** — Founded Sustainable Spaces, a whole-house energy retrofit business that later became the first Recurve.
- **2009** — Received BPI’s Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry.
- **2010** — Co-authored Taking on the Tool Belt Recession with Bracken Hendricks and advocated for Home Star.
- **2012** — Tendril acquired the original Recurve’s software; Golden subsequently worked on EDF’s Investor Confidence Project.
- **2014** — Participated in the Investor Confidence Project Europe launch in Brussels.
- **2015** — OpenEE was formed to develop markets for metered energy savings; Golden served as founder and CEO.
- **2016** — EDF launched Investor Ready Energy Efficiency certification with Golden as ICP project director.
- **2017** — Filed testimony before Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission advocating open measurement and pay-for-performance markets.
- **2019** — OpenEE adopted the Recurve name and contributed OpenEEmeter to Linux Foundation Energy.
- **2022** — Delivered Zero Energy Carbon Goals at TEDxSonomaCounty in March.
- **2024** — Recurve announced his departure as CEO in May and welcomed a new leader.

## Achievements

- Founded two businesses that used the Recurve name, with the later venture focused on demand-side energy analytics.
- Helped lead the development of CalTRACK methods and OpenEEmeter with utilities, public agencies and technical stakeholders.
- Helped develop Investor Confidence Project standards and Investor Ready Energy Efficiency certification.
- Received the 2009 BPI Tony Woods Award.
- Co-authored the 2010 policy memo Taking on the Tool Belt Recession.
- Presented on efficiency markets to the US Senate Finance Committee, UK Parliament and COP21 in Paris.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Recurve announced that founder Matt Golden was stepping down and Zach R. was joining to lead the company.

## Links

- Website: https://www.efficiency.org/matt-golden.html
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldenmatt/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/goldenmatt

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Last updated: 2026-10-12