# Nate Walkingshaw

> Nate Walkingshaw is the co-founder and CEO of Torus, a Utah energy storage and management company founded in 2021 with Gilbert Lee. Previously a product executive at Pluralsight and leader of Tanner Labs, he also co-authored Product Leadership. His work at Torus grew from efforts to power irrigation on his family’s tree farm.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Torus
- **Organizations:** Torus, Pluralsight, Brightface, Tanner Labs / O.C. Tanner, 47G
- **Education:** Westminster College (now Westminster University)
- **Known for:** Co-authored the 2017 O’Reilly book Product Leadership., Led product and experience work at Pluralsight during its expansion and IPO period., Named one of Utah Business’s 2024 Leaders of the Year.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Founded Brightface, focused on mobile and web applications; its Cycleface product was later acquired by Strava.
- **Before 2015** — Incubated and led Tanner Labs at O.C. Tanner.
- **2015** — Joined Pluralsight as chief product officer.
- **2016** — Responsibilities expanded to chief experience officer at Pluralsight.
- **2017** — Co-authored Product Leadership with Richard Banfield and Martin Eriksson.
- **2018** — Worked at Pluralsight through its IPO alongside Gilbert Lee.
- **2021** — Co-founded Torus with Gilbert Lee.
- **2024** — Joined the board of 47G Utah Aerospace & Defense.

## Achievements

- Co-authored the 2017 O’Reilly book Product Leadership.
- Led product and experience work at Pluralsight during its expansion and IPO period.
- Named one of Utah Business’s 2024 Leaders of the Year.
- Led Torus when its Spin flywheel received TIME Best Inventions recognition in 2024 and an R&D 100 Award in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Appeared in a Silicon Slopes Start School session with Clint Betts discussing leadership, utilities and energy infrastructure.
- **2026-07** — Torus reported nearly 300 employees and a 76% increase in output since GigaOne came online six months earlier.
- **2025-09** — Torus announced a $200 million investment from Magnetar and an expanded PacifiCorp memorandum of understanding covering up to 500 MW of demand response capacity.

## Links

- Website: https://www.torus.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natewalkingshaw/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/nwalkingshaw

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