About Amperon

For almost 20 years, Sean has been at the forefront of the energy trading industry, working for Tenaska, Lehman, EDF, and E.On. While at EDF, he led the transition of two nuclear plants (Nine Mile and Ginna) into the NYISO market, then led the buildout of E.On’s North American trading desk. Next he co-founded Bridge Power Consulting, and sold to Albireo Energy in 2019. He co-founded Amperon in 2018, and as CEO led the company to a $20M Series B fundraising round in 2023.

Abe sold his first company, Hacker League, to Intel. His work has since spanned a variety of top engineering and data science teams, including roles at Etsy, Planet Labs, and McKinsey; he's worked on large scale timeseries anomaly detection systems, telemetry platforms for low earth orbit satellites, insider-trading detection systems, and much more — all at the confluence of real-time machine learning on massive datasets. He's published AI papers in several venues including ICML and WSDM. He was a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in the Energy category for 2020.

Alex has worked in energy for more than 20 years and is a successful commercial executive and entrepreneur. Alex has held a variety of leadership roles, including CEO, CCO, CRO, and CSO. He has successfully scaled multiple teams and built and sold companies, including to S&P/IHS and Genscape. Most recently, he was an executive at Microsoft, where he served as CSO for the company's energy BU and then CCO, where he built a new sustainability BU. Alex has deep experience commercializing data, software, and AI products. He has an MBA from the University of Michigan and BS from the University of Virginia.

Kelsey joined Amperon in 2024 as EVP, Communications and CoS to enhance the company’s visibility and scalability. Before joining Amperon, Kelsey served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications and Sustainability at Sunnova Energy, where she led key initiatives and held other leadership roles. She serves on the boards of the Renewable Energy Alliance – Houston, and Combined Arms, a veteran transition non-profit. Kelsey holds a Master of Arts from Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Vermont.

Elliott oversees the product vision, strategy, and execution for Amperon in his role as EVP of Product. An energy data, analytics, and information expert, Elliott has worked in wholesale and retail energy for over 15 years in operational, technical, and product roles. Previously, Elliott held the dual role of Vice President of Pricing and Operations for TrueLight Energy LLC and Director of Analytics for TrueLight Energy Fund.

Kalpana is a skilled technologist and business leader with over twenty years of experience building high-performing engineering teams for both large enterprise companies and startups. She was the VP of Engineering at EnergySavvy (acquired by Uplight) where she oversaw the delivery of SaaS products to serve their millions of users in 30+ investor owned utilities. She has extensive experience in B2B machine learning and data analytics platforms.

Joe serves as VP of Finance at Amperon and helped lead its $20 million Series B fundraise in 2023. Prior to joining Amperon, he served as Manager of Corporate Development at Archaea Energy (sold to bp) and as an Associate in Lazard's Energy practice where he advised clients in M&A, financial reorganization, and strategic initiatives. Before joining Lazard, Joe earned his MBA at Rice University and held corporate finance and consulting roles in the energy industry.

Jon Ecker is an energy information expert with over 30 years of experience in energy markets in Europe, North America and Japan. Jon’s work experience includes: VP Strategic Initiatives at Energy Exemplar, CEO of Genscape, President and co-founder of Ventyx Velocity Suite, and Sr. Director of Platts NA and European database and GIS products. Jon attended the University of Colorado and designed and taught an Energy Market Fundamentals and Market Design in North America course at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder.

Ydo directs the technological vision and application of industry-leading AI models as the Head of Data Science at Amperon. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion and 20 years' experience in data science and machine learning, holding positions at highly-regarded  organizations such as IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and top-tier algorithmic trading firms. Dr. Wexler has authored over 20 research papers in notable conferences and journals like NeurIPS, ICML, and JAIR, advancing AI innovation in this rapidly evolving field.