About VECKTA
The global energy system is transforming in real time. An aging and strained grid, higher costs, and increasing climate risk are forcing companies to rethink how they power their operations. Onsite energy generation offers a clear solution: clean, reliable power that cuts both costs and carbon. Yet businesses are stalled by a fragmented market of vendors, complex regulations, and unclear investment decisions.
VECKTA cuts through this complexity with a single platform that connects companies to expertise, precise analytics, and pre-qualified suppliers. We turn uncertainty into clarity, empowering businesses to confidently build their energy future.
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We exist to create a world where everyone has access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy. We see businesses as major drivers in making this happen.
Our Story
For most companies, onsite solar and batteries are the most direct way to lock in what they pay for power and keep operating when the grid can’t keep up.
But most companies buying onsite energy systems aren’t experts, yet they are navigating buying an asset with a 25+ year lifespan. Getting a project right means working out which sites are worth developing, what system each one needs, deciding who should build the project, and what belongs in the construction contract. Few teams have that expertise in-house, and the ones that try to piece it together can spend a year or more on research before they talk to a single supplier. Plenty of companies stall at that point. Others sign the first proposal on the table because nobody on their side had the time, expertise or data to question it.
VECKTA sits on the buyer’s side of that table. Give us an address and our platform pulls thousands of data points to model the right system for the site and build a business case that can be signed off on. Companies with a large portfolio of properties can rank every one of them and see where to start.
When companies are ready to buy, we lead them through a competitive proposal process through our marketplace of vetted suppliers, where every bidder works from the same project information, so the bids are actually comparable side by side. And because we don’t sell or install equipment, our recommendation is whatever optimizes the deesired outcome.
So far, we’ve assessed more than 60,000 sites, representing more than $5 billion in project value and have found that solar and storage are currently economically viable at 1 in 3 commercial properties. Buyers on our marketplace see system costs 20 to 45% lower than the bids they sourced on their own, and they’ve gone from first assessment to signed contract in as few as 9 weeks, against an industry norm of 12 to 18 months. Those savings come back every year the system runs.
We are also building tools to help businesses go further in profiting from onsite energy, including monitoring, capacity planning and underwriting. A rooftop or parking lot can earn money as well as save it, through lease revenue or selling power back to the grid, and we’re building that into every assessment.
Our Values
Adapt Purposefully
Challenge Limits
Empower Co-Creation
Our Partners and Investors
VECKTA’s founding team and investors understand that the world is on the precipice of an all-encompassing energy transformation that will bring about more innovation and prosperity, healthier people, stop the advancement of climate change, and minimize pollution.
“The world is on an unstoppable transition to clean, lower-cost, renewable energy. While large-scale systems, like power plants & transmission, are an essential component of this transition, these projects can take years, sometimes a decade or longer, to get approved, built, and integrated with the grid. Fortunately, VECKTA offers a parallel path forward that is far faster by helping businesses build their own onsite energy systems like microgrids. These systems are more reliable, increasingly cheaper, and always cleaner.”
VECKTA Leadership Team
Gareth Evans
CEO and Co-Founder
Gareth is our Leader, 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.
Calvin Fine
Head of Market Ops and Co-Founder
Calvin is an energetic, engaging product leader. He empowers the VECKTA team to focus on the most important priorities, take responsibility for them, take action, and deliver results. Calvin loves to get things done well, get them done quickly, learn from experience, and have a good time along the way.
Prior to VECKTA, Calvin held senior leadership positions in infrastructure, mining, and consumer products companies, focused on supply chain and procurement strategy.
Calvin’s Superpower: Grow the Market
Dan Roberts
Head of Sales and Co-Founder
Dan is a problem solver, developing the strategy and process for VECKTA to help energy users around the world access cheaper, more reliable, and cleaner energy solutions. The VECKTA marketplace is particularly exciting because more projects will be developed more efficiently than ever before. Prior to VECKTA, Dan led top performing sales organizations in a variety of industries including digital identity and telemedicine.
He loves spending free time sailing, surfing, mountain biking, golfing and enjoying the marvel of fatherhood.
Dan’s Superpower: Listening
Felipe Sarubbi
Head of Product and Co-Founder
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 South America 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
Sarah Riley
Head of Marketing
Sarah has spent more than 15 years supporting leading and startup climate tech and clean energy companies in marketing and communications. She is passionate about bringing solutions to market that accelerate decarbonization and electrification.
Sarah drives all of VECKTA’s growth, brand and product marketing initiatives while collaborating closely with sales leaders.
A native of Oregon, Sarah now lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children. You can find her painting, gardening or out hiking in her free time.
Superpower: Seeing the silver lining.
Board of Directors and Advisors
Bill Nussey
Board Member
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.
Paul Voois
Board Observer
Kareem Dabbagh
Board Member
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.
Uma Gopaldass
Board Member
Uma is a Board-certified governance counsel with over 30 years of global operating experience across the Natural Resources, Technology, and Engineering industries. She is an active board director and sits on several boards and investor councils, including the Leadership Board of TEDx MileHigh and the Corporate Board of VECKTA Energy. Her company, Leading Lotus, guides executives to navigate a myriad of business challenges including securing financing, building investor confidence, targeting strategic markets, and executing on plan.
Scott Stern
Board Member
Scott Stern is a Partner at Origin Ventures, where he has been on the investing team since 2016. Scott’s investments span the Creator Economy, Future of Work, and Automotive Tech sectors.
Prior to Origin, Scott spent six years as a quantitative trader, focusing on deregulated electricity products through the use of advanced computing and big data. This experience colors Scott’s love of novel data and its application across various industries.
Scott is based in Washington, DC and is an avid foodie and amateur chef and also enjoys traveling.
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We are building the most advanced platform for the energy transition market and we’re looking for great people to join our family.
