
After 19 years marketing industrial technology across four regions, Ani Adzhemyan has arrived at a wonderfully difficult brief: make utility-pole data matter before anybody notices the pole.

From enterprise software to farm pumps and smart thermostats, the Ohio technologist built a career around making scattered machines behave like one dependable power plant.

A submarine electrician talked his way past a degree requirement, built a 14-year Autodesk career, and arrived at SBS with a durable idea: infrastructure technology matters most when people can see themselves in the story.

His career began in banking and retail. It found its long game in the quiet, consequential business of helping electric utilities understand their networks, answer outages, and talk to customers.

He spent years watching water, electricity and revenue disappear through aging networks. Then he built Pylon around a stubborn idea: the smartest grid may be the one a utility can actually afford.
Nate Owen is the founder and CEO of Ampion, a Boston-based Public Benefit Corporation that acquires and manages community solar subscribers across the country. He started Ampion in 2014 after two decades running Energy Services Group, the back-office software company he founded in 1996 to serve the newly deregulated electric and gas markets. Under Owen, Ampion has grown to roughly 120 employees, manages about 1.5 GW of community solar capacity, and says it has saved subscribers more than $42 million on their electricity bills.