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Gregory Green Is Financing the Grid’s Waiting Game
The Australian dealmaker survived a bank collapse, helped build and sell a renewable-gas platform, and now wants batteries to become ordinary infrastructure in Austria. His bet is less about chemistry than patience, permits and bankable cash flows.
Nithish Sairam
Nithish Sairam is the co-founder and CEO of Illumine-i, a solar and power-engineering design firm he built after stints at Tesla and NextEra Energy. Under his leadership the bootstrapped firm expanded from a five-person team to roughly 240 engineers across offices in Fremont, Austin, and Chennai, and has been described as the largest independent digital design engineering firm in the residential PV solar sector.
Quentin Scrimshire
Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire is the co-founder and CEO of Modo Energy, a London-based B2B SaaS platform that benchmarks and forecasts the performance of grid-scale battery energy storage assets. A Manchester-trained electrical engineer who cut his teeth on offshore wind and gas-fired plants at Centrica before running Kiwi Power's European storage business, he now leads a roughly 80-person team building what he describes as the 'benchmarking and valuation operating system for global electrification.' In December 2025 Modo closed a $33M Series B led by Molten Ventures.
Jamal Burki
Jamal Burki is the co-founder and CEO of Renewance, Inc., an Elmhurst, Illinois company that manages industrial and grid-scale batteries across their full lifecycle - installation, monitoring, decommissioning, repurposing, and recycling. A former Motorola telecom engineer turned energy-storage operator, he built Renewance in 2015 with two ex-GE Energy Storage colleagues to solve a problem few were watching: what happens to the millions of batteries powering the clean-energy transition once they wear out. Under his leadership the company has commissioned and serviced over 20 gigawatt-hours of storage, decommissioned more than 100 megawatt-hours, and built RenewanceConnect, an AI-assisted platform for battery asset management and regulatory compliance.
Maryssa Barron
Maryssa Barron is the founder and CEO of BuildQ, an AI-powered project intelligence platform for the energy sector that structures project data, automates due diligence, and accelerates clean energy financing and M&A. A Harvard graduate, Stanford-trained lawyer, and licensed D.C. attorney, she spent nearly a decade in renewable energy - pioneering early power purchase agreements and rising to COO at a global independent power producer - before building the tool she wished had existed. She founded BuildQ in 2024 while studying for the bar exam, won the 2025 AngelNV competition and over $1 million in funding, and within a year had grown the platform to 300+ projects, 10+ gigawatts of clean energy capacity, and over $150 million in deal flow.