About VECKTA

Dan is a full stack engineer. He loves working at VECKTA because he is able to leverage his knack for abstract, logical thinking in order to help push the world toward a greener, more renewable energy future – a goal he is quite passionate about. Dan graduated with a CS degree from Montana State University in 2014 before moving to San Diego where he was a database support engineer serving some of the nations largest companies. Wanting to reignite his passion for computer science he attended a full stack bootcamp in 2020 before signing on with VECKTA.
Dan now works remotely from Portland, Oregon where he enjoys hiking and other outdoor activities with his girlfriend Maria and his dog Reggie.

Dan’s Superpower: Actualizing the abstract

Experienced Executive in Sales, Business & Project Development with a demonstrated history of working in the renewable energy, energy efficiency, recycling, and transportation industries. Skilled in Strategic Planning, Market Trending, and Complex Project Development.

Felipe is responsible for rallying our community of partners and clients, as well as advising the executive team on aligning our offerings with future needs. He is a serial entrepreneur, and a global executive with almost 2 decades of experience in smart grids, electrification of transportation, and cybersecurity. 

Felipe currently lives in Canada with his wife and two cats. His main hobbies used to be to playing the guitar and drinking wine, but as he is getting older his nerdy instincts are becoming more prominent. Today he prefers to study technical topics, engineer robots and full-stack programming.

Felipe’s Superpower: Predicting the future

As VECKTA’s Scrum Master, Jola passionately guides VECKTA’s team members by facilitating, planning, and tracking activities to deliver VECKTA’s powerful Energy Transition Platform. Jola is dedicated and devoted to VECKTA’s mission and vision; transforming Distributed Energy Systems acquisitions. Her past experiences embrace a customer-centric approach, broadly spanning multiple industries.

Jola applies her skills as an active volunteer, always striving to enrich anything she’s involved in. She is a mom, wife, daughter, and friend whose favorite pastimes include travel, scuba diving, creating magical moments, and family gatherings.

Jola’s Superpower: Intuitive Synchronizer

Mariana is a front-end developer working on building the VECKTA platform. She has a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering and is passionate about building software for a better future. She has a CALARTS certification in UI design and has a strong belief that good design leads to a great product.

When she isn’t writing code, Mariana likes to read, experiment with baking, and cook great food.

Mariana’s Superpower: Keep it simple

Mark comes to VECKTA after leading Global Accounts in Sales and Service
Management with AT&T for 22 Years. Mark has also successfully helped several startups successfully market new technology solutions, introducing them to enterprise clients transitioning to disruptive technologies.
Mark is a leader well-equipped to translate the value of VECKTA’S fluently
ecosystem to enterprise customers searching for their path through their energy transformation journey.

Mark instinctively matches customer-focused business initiatives with the
economics and wholistically impactful VECKTA solutions that allow enterprise business customers to achieve their target objectives. Calling NY, NJ, and PA “home,” Mark has spent his career immersed in these robust corporate centers while also traveling the US and EU for presentations on
new technologies. His personal and professional motto is to “help others first & success will follow.”

Patrick Baker, a seasoned wine industry executive working in sales, business development, marketing, finance, viticulture and winemaking joins VECKTA as Director of Business Development. His focus in the Food & Beverage (F&B) realm stems from his 20 years of industry experience, starting as a winegrape grower in Sonoma CA.

In his new role at VECKTA Baker brings unique and diverse business and F&B operational insight, having managed across siloed teams, instituting real change management and pursuing revenue in every effort to earnestly benefit his colleagues in those industries.

Paul joins VECKTA with prior on-site energy modeling experience. He aims to use his familiarity with utility rates, technical know-how, and appetite for problem solving to develop accurate models of potential on-site energy projects. Paul believes knowledge is power, and makes it his mission to empower VECKTA’s leadership and customers with reliable and accurate information throughout their decision-making process.

Whether it’s at VECKTA or while outdoors seeking adventure, Paul continually relies on developing confidence through competence.

Paul’s Superpower: Enjoying The Ride

Tristan is our Trailblazer, charting new frontiers in the Energy Transition and DES landscape. He explores market opportunities and establishes proven pathways to cost savings, carbon reduction, and improved energy reliability and resilience for you, our global community, partners, and clients. Tristan lives in the field alongside energy system end users, equipment suppliers, and development partners, co-defining the energy systems and business models of the future. As CSO of VECKTA, Tristan combines his deep experience in team building, communication, and problem solving, with technical expertise, tenacity, and excitement for breaking new ground and producing extraordinary results.

He is a husband, outdoor and international explorer, lifelong leader and believer in a thriving, sustainable future for all.

Gareth is our Leader, strategically and passionately guiding VECKTA to success. He believes that it is a privilege to lead, collaborate and work with talented and motivated people. Gareth is committed to constantly evolving VECKTA as the world’s leading Energy Transition platform, in harmony with our vision, mission and values, all while having fun along the way!

Previously Gareth lead Worley’s Global Distributed Energy Systems strategy and Power Networks & Systems team, helping the company and its clients successfully navigate energy transition, leading to VECKTA.

He is a dad, husband and friend who seeks out adventure at every turn. Most recently he completed Brek Epic, a 6 day race, with his wife – check out the grueling accounts in his LinkedIn Articles.

Bill is a Partner at Engage and Tech Square Ventures. In this role, he will oversee the growth of the Engage program and fund.

Bill spent most of his career as a tech CEO. His first company, which he co-founded in high school, provided graphics software for early, text-based personal computers. His second company, Da Vinci Systems, was started out of his college dorm room and grew to serve millions of users across 45 countries. Later, he spent several years as a venture capitalist with Greylock. In 1998, he left the firm to become CEO of a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as CEO. The company grew to nearly $100 million in recurring revenue and became a global leader in cloud-based marketing. In 2014, IBM acquired the company and made it the foundation of the IBM Marketing Cloud. Shortly after the acquisition, Bill was promoted to IBM’s VP Corporate Strategy, helping the CEO and SVPs set IBM’s strategic roadmap. Bill’s companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value.

Kareem brings years of angel investing, mentoring, and startup advisory experience, and is a subject matter expert in renewable energy, energy storage, electrical grids, microgrids, and electricity markets through a 15 year career.