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Ricky Buch
Co-Founder & CTO, PowertrustRicky is a product strategist and thought leader with experience in the software and energy industries. He co-founded Powertrust in 2020, a venture-backed climate finance startup unlocking a new sector of green energy procurement for corporate climate leaders by aggregating small renewable projects and delivering a climate and social impact that is transformative, faster and fairer.
He's also Head of Technology at D-REC Initiative, a not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder, industry-led initiative to create a global market for distributed renewable energy.
He holds an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from University of Michigan and has a Certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy from the Center for Business and Environment at Yale University.