Sustainable Energy Executive | Antora VP BD | Energy Finance, Storage, Green Industrial Heat, PV, DERS, V2X | GM, Google, PARC | Board Member @ UC Merced and Phoenix Energy
Just the Right Landing - Antora. I’m delighted to share that I’ve joined the amazing team at Antora Energy as VP Business Development, and will be working with them to help decarbonize industrial heat, perhaps the single biggest decarbonization opportunity today. The industrial sector accounts for 30% (!) of global carbon emissions. Antora makes thermal batteries which use cheap off-peak wind and solar energy to generate high-temperature heat stored in carbon blocks, which is then used to replace carbon emitting sources of industrial heat; often this means replacing natural gas, but in some places we’ll be replacing even higher carbon content fuels like oil or coal. This was an amazing search process for me, and I met many wonderful companies and leadership teams that I would have been honored to work with. I wanted to find a high impact clean tech business that was ready to scale to $Bs of deployments now, with a world class team of humans, and investors that could help leverage early successes rapidly. Antora really nailed all of these. Remarkably, Antora is now ramping up manufacturing of their 225 kW thermal batteries right in San Jose, CA, with $Bs of decarbonization projects already in the pipeline. So, if you need to decarbonize your industrial thermal load, drop us a line; and, if you need to help other people do that, we’re hiring and partnering… Thanks David Bierman, Andrew Ponec, Justin Briggs, Jordan Leventhal, from Antora for making this happen. And thanks to all the amazing people who were part of this heart-warming journey, with special call outs to Tim Woodward, Anup Jacob, Nathaniel Anschuetz, David Finke, Jennifer Rockwood, Kate Brandt, Alexa Arena, Astro Teller, Bob Bauer, Ramya Swaminathan, Sila Kiliccote, Dave Konye, Alsey Davidson, Maxwell Dworkin, Philipp Schmaelzle, Shayle Kann, Lindsay Luger, Bill Hooper, Greg Vilkin, Marcum D. "Eli" Khouri, Heriberto Diarte.
We are excited to share that Ty Jagerson has joined Antora as our VP of Business Development. Ty is a dynamic leader with more than 25 years of experience launching and growing energy businesses at companies including Google, General Motors, and Xerox PARC. Ty has overseen the installation of hundreds of clean energy projects, and has raised over $300M of corporate, government, and venture financing. After a decade in the solar and storage industries, Ty joined Google’s X, the moonshot factory to develop Tapestry, a system that allows utilities to better manage and model the electric utility grid and accelerate the deployment of renewables. Following Tapestry, Ty led project development for Malta, a Google spin-out developing long-duration grid storage. Most recently, Ty launched the General Motors V2X business unit as a founding executive at GM Energy, where he ran commercial hardware sales, V2X software, and fleet electrification services. Ty holds an MBA from Wharton and has worked professionally in over 25 countries. If you’re interested in learning more about how Antora is decarbonizing industrial facilities, reach out to connect with our team: https://lnkd.in/dUhbmPRu
Congratulations! Exciting to see you join Antora. 😊 Looking forward to the impact you'll make in decarbonizing industrial heat. 💪
Josh Becker
4w
Congrats! Decarbonizing industrial heat is critical - industrial emissions are about 33% of CA emissions and 32% nationally and very little progress has been made
John Balbach
4w
Fantastic, Ty! The innovation and approach of Antora is one of the shining examples that our economy CAN be powered cleanly and sustainably. Having grown up in the Pittsburgh steel mills, I'm looking forward to seeing clean heavy industry.
Congratulations Ty and Antora. They are lucky to have toy and Antora is a great company with amazing potential. I believe things will go very well.
Congrats on the new, high impact role Ty. Fun to see our childhood and west coast networks overlapping too.
It's great to see you still working towards solving the most complex problems in the energy transition!
Tony Lebe
1w
Congratulations Ty! Wishing you the best in the new venture!
Mo Rousso
4w
Congratulations, Ty! Joining Antora Energy sounds like a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact in decarbonizing industrial heat. Your passion for clean tech and scaling innovative solutions is inspiring. Looking forward to seeing the incredible work you and the team will accomplish.
Julia Souder
3w
Congrats Ty! Wow. Great to see you continuing to share your expertise in long duration energy storage!
Sustainable Energy Executive | Antora VP BD | Energy Finance, Storage, Green Industrial Heat, PV, DERS, V2X | GM, Google, PARC | Board Member @ UC Merced and Phoenix Energy
3wThanks everyone for the amazing comments. It is pretty amazing to see kind words from so many folks, from so many corners of the LinkedIn-o sphere. It’s like throwing myself a surprise party. Hi everyone, stay in touch, and let’s all keep our feet to the fire and do what each of us can to move the big dial on climate change. It is a hidden curse that we do not see every day, but through our actions and inactions we are pulling that boulder inexorably into ourselves, and on to our descendants.