About

Ivan enjoys collaborating with those who want to hone their vision and find their strategy for energy, carbon, or equity. During these decades of accelerating disruption and transformation, Ivan has helped private and non-profit organizations in over 25 states find their best business model options and strategic pathways forward to predict, grow, learn, and adapt.

Ivan’s impactful combination of knowledge, skills, and tools enable him to quickly learn the business of his clients and collaboratively their work in clean energy and climate tech, finance and investment, digital infrastructure, and entities looking to lead with energy, carbon, and equity. 

Recent client projects with developers, manufacturers, investment firms, universities, and NGO’s include:

• Regional and state-specific policy and market strategy

• Policy engagement capacity development and impact strategy

• Landscape and SWOT analysis

• Business strategy for the federal IRA, IIJA, and Justice 40 incentives and related programs

• Inclusive utility investment programs and innovative financing

• Transmission planning process improvements

• SBIR DOE and NIST grants supporting business development

• DEI business assessment and impact strategy

• Clean energy workforce development

From 2005 to 2017, he is most widely known for his work as the primary architect and lead strategist for North Carolina’s suite of clean energy policies and regulatory strategies that catapulted NC into national leadership in solar, clean energy jobs, rural clean energy economic development, and opening doors to inclusive financing. Turning this vision into hundreds of policy decisions cultivated the State’s market ecosystem and laid the evidence-based path opening the possibility for full power sector decarbonization and NC’s current carbon law.

Ivan has won several business and climate leadership awards in the southeast, is a SAFE Energy Security Fellow, and a recent RMI eLab Accelerator coach. Ivan holds an MPP and MEM from Duke University, where he focused on global change sciences, energy, economic globalization, and poverty and B.A.s in Political Science and Environmental Studies from The George Washington University.

With roots spanning to the northern and southern borders of the U.S. and beyond, Ivan enjoys experiencing cultures and observing the natural wonders of our world with his family. In his unstructured time, he enjoys coaching little league, scouting, growing food, joining people in community problem solving, surfing, supporting my daughter’s love of women’s soccer, making spreadsheets, and playing baseball every chance he can.