Aaron Goldfeder

Aaron Goldfeder

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Director, CEO, Founder
Seattle, Washington, United States

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  • AZX
    Director, CEO, Founder
    AZX
    Oct 2024 - Current (1 year 9 months)
    We help world changing companies thrive in a changing world.
  • Planette AI
    Advisor
    Planette AI
    May 2024 - Current (2 years 2 months)
    Planette provides breakthrough climate forecasting technologies to power data-driven decision-making.
  • Convey
    Advisor
    Convey
    Jul 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 6 months)
    • Advised executive team on growth, product, AI, and regulatory matters in utility communications. • Focused on disaster mitigation, resiliency, and outage energy efficiency. • Wrapped engagement when the company was acquired.
  • Meetingflow
    Cofounder, CEO (Acquired by Augment.co in 2024)
    Meetingflow
    Mar 2022 - Mar 2024 (2 years 1 month)
    • Led the development of GenAI native SaaS for customer-facing meetings, incorporating AI capabilities for meeting prep, engagement, and follow-up. • Raised ~$4M from top investors and successfully pivoted from PANDA AI to Meetingflow. • Acquired by Augment.co in March 2024 and still serving happy customers!
  • Meetingflow
    Cofounder, CEO PANDA AI Inc (Pivoted to Meetingflow)
    Meetingflow
    Feb 2020 - Feb 2022 (2 years 1 month)
    • Led the development of an AI-powered cross-app search tool leveraging NLP technology for gaining insights from scattered data. Built before the ChatGPT craze... • Successfully raised $4M from top Seattle VCs and angel investors, including Smartsheet and DocuSign founders. • Pivoted the company to Meetingflow in Dec 2022 to enhance adoption and market presence.
  • Franklin Energy
    Board Member
    Franklin Energy
    Jan 2020 - Current (6 years 6 months)
    Support corporate strategy, AI, growth, product strategy, and board matters.
  • AI
    Entrepreneur In Residence
    AI
    Dec 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 1 month)
  • Hugo Quinn
    Climate + AI Advisor and occasional investor
    Hugo Quinn
    Oct 2019 - Current (6 years 9 months)
  • Uplight
    Executive Advisor
    Uplight
    Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 (4 months)
    After Uplight acquired my company, I reported to the CEO and advised on key accounts, strategy, integration, team, and other matters. Uplight is a customer engagement and analytics company with 300+ employees focused on clean energy and utilities. It was established in 2019 by combining EnergySavvy, Tendril and other industry companies.
  • EnergySavvy
    Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder (Acquired by Uplight in 2019)
    EnergySavvy
    Oct 2008 - May 2019 (10 years 8 months)
    • Customer engagement, analytics/AI & workflow for utilities with a focus on EE/DSM/DER • Initial founder, recruited co-founders, advisors, and early customers • Led fundraising of over $30M from seed, VC, and strategic investors • Acquired by Tendril to form Uplight which then grew into a $1B+ valuation company • 94% CEO approval rating on Glassdoor, numerous “best place” to work awards • Grew significant SaaS revenue with over 30 utility clients including many top IOUs • Created SaaS solutions that clients love with many case studies, presentations, and papers •  Product focus on data analytics AI/ML, energy prediction, personalization, UX, and workflow • Fostered a cherished culture focused on honesty, grit, quality, and purpose • Large-
  • Microsoft
    Principal Group Program Manager - Cloud Infrastructure / Azure
    Microsoft
    Jan 2007 - May 2008 (1 year 5 months)
    Provided leadership for an engineering group focused on Service Monitoring, Deployment, Hardware Programmability, Change Management and Data Center Management. Provided supervision for regulatory, privacy and security compliance audits for data center services for large scale web services.
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    Co-Founder
    Digital Intrepid
    Nov 2006 - Nov 2007 (1 year 1 month)
    Conceptualized, developed and launched web application which enabled easy location based social networking for university, cafe and conference scenarios using Ruby on Rails.
  • Microsoft
    Lead Program Manager - Local Search
    Microsoft
    Apr 2005 - Oct 2005 (7 months)
    Helped lead vision and initial execution for local search including an initial release around categorization and international markets.
  • Microsoft
    Lead Program Manager - Windows Presentation Foundation
    Microsoft
    Sep 2001 - Apr 2005 (3 years 8 months)
    Key leader in vision and execution for Windows Presentation Foundation 1.0 and Common Language Runtime 2.0 security and web strategies. Worked with hundreds of developers, designers and shipped features.
  • Microsoft
    Program Manager - Internet Explorer
    Microsoft
    Jan 2001 - Sep 2001 (9 months)
    Led design, execution and delivery of privacy and security improvements in Internet Explorer. Participated in developing the 1.0 version of the W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences specification (P3P) and a key driver of implementation in Internet Explorer.
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    Software Development Engineer Intern
    Sierra OnLine
    Oct 2000 - Dec 2000 (3 months)
    Maintained and developed tools in C++ for a large 3D game
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  • Udacity
    Introduction to Machine Learning Nanodegree, Machine Learning
    Udacity
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 (1 year)
    3 month course focused on supervised learning, deep learning and unsupervised machine learning approaches. Lots of coding quizzes and 3 human-reviewed coding projects.
  • University of Washington
    MS, Mathematics
    University of Washington
    Jan 1999 - Dec 2001 (3 years)
  • University of Florida
    BS, Mathematics (honors)
    University of Florida
    Jan 1996 - Dec 1999 (4 years)
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    • Ernst and Young
      Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Finalist
      Ernst and Young
      Apr 2017
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      40 under 40 in 2014 by Puget Sound Business Journal
      Puget Sound Business Journal
      Sep 2014
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      10 under 40 by JTNews 2010
      JT News
      Apr 2010
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