Leadership Team

Ruben is the CEO of AutoGrid. In his previous role as Schneider Electric’s Vice President, National Sales Force, he was responsible for the commercial activities in the Central Region, delivering significant orders and sales growth, while expanding Schneider Electric’s Digital, Software, and Services businesses.
Prior to that position, Ruben was Vice President, Channel Business Development & Strategy, where he launched and led the U.S. Distribution Sales organization and defined strategy for all channels of distribution.
Before joining Schneider Electric in 2010, he worked in the Global Investment Banking Division at Deutsche Bank Securities. Ruben has a Bachelor’s in Finance and Economics from the University of Illinois.

Rahul is the Chief Operating Officer of AutoGrid Systems, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to revolutionize how we consume and supply clean energy, thereby reducing climate impacts. With over 20 years of experience in both technology and energy, Rahul has a unique combination of skills that has helped him drive the growth and success of AutoGrid since 2014.
Rahul brings over 20 years of experience in both technology and energy. He has a unique combination of skills that has helped him drive the growth and success of AutoGrid since 2014.
Prior to joining AutoGrid, Rahul held a variety of engineering, management and policy design roles; designing turbo-machinery for reduced energy consumption, leading large technology strategy projects for the U.S. Department of Energy and developing machine learning and optimization products for various energy companies. His areas of expertise include business model innovation, data science and analytics, revenue growth and markets for electric energy and operating reserves.
He is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the clean technology industry, regularly presenting at conferences and events. Rahul graduated from MIT and Texas A&M University.
At AutoGrid, Rahul is responsible for overseeing engineering, product development and delivery; developing and executing growth strategies; and ensuring that the company continues to deliver cutting-edge clean energy solutions to its customers.

Scott leads all of AutoGrid’s revenue-intensive functions, including sales, marketing, and industry solutions. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the cleantech space, and specifically in demand response and VPPs. Formerly VP of International Business Development at Voltus, Scott is an expert in demand response and VPPs for residential, commercial and industrial markets. He spent more than a decade in leadership roles at Nest, where he was responsible for the launch of the highly successful Nest Rush Hour Rewards program. Scott also serves as an advisor to a number of clean energy technology companies and was an early VPP pioneer as a core member of the team at EnerNOC. Scott completed his undergraduate and graduate studies from Stanford University.

Rajeev is responsible for conceptualizing, developing, scaling and securing AutoGrid’s AI-driven cloud-native SaaS platform and applications. Rajeev brings extensive experience building large-scale, complex enterprise-grade software systems.
Prior to AutoGrid, as Principal Architect and later Director of Technology at iMANY (now Model N), Rajeev built their “next-gen” enterprise contract management platform, starting literally in a garage. Prior to iMANY, as System Architect, Rajeev built decision-support and price- and revenue-optimization enterprise systems at Decision Focus Inc. (renamed Talus and later acquired by Manugistics). The systems Rajeev has built have been used by such companies as Ford Motor Co., Continental and Northwest airlines, GE Aviation, Honeywell, TIBCO, Kodak, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Genentech. One of these — a marketing incentive optimization system for Ford Motor Co. — was chronicled in Forbes and Businessweek.
Rajeev has an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

Quique is responsible for developing forecasting, optimization, and customer segmentation capabilities in the AutoGrid platform. He brings more than 20 years experience designing and delivering decision support solutions in a variety of verticals, including digital advertising, air cargo, long-haul trucking, ride sharing, and retail pricing/promotions. He has pioneered the application of revenue management and demand-side optimization in a number of these industries. Prior to AutoGrid, Quique developed forecasting and optimization capabilities at Uber and Brand.net, a leading ad network specializing in brand advertising. Before that he consulted for Polar Air Cargo and Schneider National, where he delivered novel demand-side forecasting and price optimization capabilities. He previously worked for a leading boutique solutions firm specializing in revenue management, Decision Focus (renamed Talus and later acquired by Manugistics), where he designed the analytics behind the first successful revenue management system in the air cargo industry for Continental Airlines, as well as a promotions optimization system for Ford Motor Company. Quique has an M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Operations Research and Statistics, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tad leads overall corporate strategy and new strategic partnerships to accelerate growth at AutoGrid. With 20 years of experience serving as a catalyst for growth in emerging businesses, Tad is a nationally recognized Wall Street research leader in the software and technology marketplace. He has held a range of C-Level and leadership positions, driving innovation and sales to achieve rapid growth across multiple industries. Most recently, Piper developed some of the largest demand response resources in the U.S.

Aniket leads our global engineering team, and is responsible for the continued delivery of new features, services and architectures for AutoGrid’s cloud-native SaaS platform and application portfolio.
Prior to AutoGrid, Aniket was a Technology Architecture Specialist at Accenture’s Emerging Technology division, where he gained extensive experience managing global software development teams and delivering on enterprise-scale IoT and Big Data Analytics platforms. The architectures and systems Aniket and his team built were used by many Fortune 500 companies in the acceleration of their digital transition and feature roadmaps, as well as the development of business and product intelligence tooling for senior leadership.
Aniket has a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Mechanical Engineering as well as Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He is also currently completing his MBA at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sadia Raveendran is the VP of Industry Solutions at AutoGrid. Sadia has 15 years of experience in clean energy technologies (biomass, solar PV, carbon capture, wind, and distributed energy resources), in NAM, EUR, and APAC regions. She has served in functions for business development, R&D, product management, and pre-sales. At AutoGrid, she led the partnership with Schneider Electric after their initial round of investment in May 2019. She worked with various lines of business at Schneider to go-to-market with joint solutions that deliver enhanced value to utilities, energy companies, and end consumers. Her team partners with AutoGrid’s customers to design and implement flexibility management programs using AutoGrid Flex™, the industry leading Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS) and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform and related services.
Prior to joining AutoGrid, she worked at GE Renewable Energy in product management roles for equipment, services, and digital tools for the onshore wind business. While there, she was selected for the company’s Renewable Energy Leadership Program (RELP) and for the GE wide Accelerated Leadership program (XLP). At the MIT Energy Initiative, she researched carbon capture and sequestration and challenges to its commercialization. While at Tata Power in India, she helped build the company’s utility-scale solar generation portfolio from the first 3 MW and 25 MW installations; a portfolio that has grown to nearly 3000 MW in 2023. Her range and depth of knowledge have made her an industry thought leader on clean energy technologies, platform solutions, and emerging trends in the energy transition.
She graduated from Wellesley College with majors in Physics & Economics (Honors) and has a master’s degree in Technology & Policy from MIT.

Ashifa joined as VP Engineering, India and is managing different teams in India and takes care of all aspects of product development and delivery. Ashifa brings extensive experience of building highly scalable systems and has worked with many MNCs and startups in India for close to a decade and half. Prior to joining AutoGrid, Ashifa has contributed to many high growth startups that have gone global and was building a company in the online consulting and education space. Ashifa holds two Masters degrees , M.Sc. from Hyderabad Central University and MTech from IIT Delhi.

Yusuf is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years of experience in software development and technical leadership. He was most recently Director of Web Engineering at Seagate Technologies where he led a team developing Cloud Solutions for consumers and Applications for self-encrypting hard-drives. Yusuf was Co-founder and Vice President of Web Technologies at Axiom Design which was acquired by Mentor Graphics. Yusuf has held management and Principal architect positions at several Silicon Valley startups, including Chegg (now a public company), Berkeley Design Automation ( now part of Siemens) and Lyveminds ( later acquired by Seagate ) focusing on computer graphics, UI/UX and Web technologies.
Yusuf holds two Masters degrees in Engineering from UCLA and from University of Iowa. He also holds a US Patent. For fun, he enjoys creating art in different media.

Charlie leads a team responsible for delivering the AutoGrid platform and ensuring maximum customer value. With a passion for energy and protecting the planet, he has over 15 years experience building and scaling customer delivery and engagement teams at the intersection of energy and technology.
Prior to AutoGrid, Charlie helped build and scale the Customer Success teams at Voltaiq, working closely with auto and device OEMs to build better and more efficient battery systems.Charlie was an early member of the Opower Client Success team, helping establish a delivery and engagement strategy with utilities in the US and eventually London to grow and lead Opower’s EMEA Client Success team.
Charlie holds a masters in Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University and a masters in International Business from Florida Atlantic University.

John brings more than two decades of experience in the software and energy sectors. Prior to joining AutoGrid, he held a range of marketing and communications leadership roles at Oracle, GE, ABB, and Hitachi Energy. HIs work has been recognized with both Hermes and Muse Creative Awards. He holds a BA from Princeton and masters in English from Rutgers and Stanford.

Anton is responsible for driving global growth with AutoGrid’s strategic partners. Passionate about cleantech, he is energized by AutoGrid’s mission of applying SaaS, data analytics and AI toward the creation of a prosumer-driven distributed energy world.
Over the course of his career at IBM, EMC, Dell Technologies, and Cardinality.io., Anton has served in a variety of technical and business leadership roles spanning software engineering, product management, solution architecture, technical evangelism, corporate strategy, competitive intelligence and software licensing. Anton has earned patents in distributed computing, served as CMO for telecom software businesses and has established reseller and SI partner programs at the country and worldwide levels.
Anton holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Gisela leads our Virtual Power Plant business and oversees the growth and health of Autogrid’s Distributed Energy Partner ecosystem. With a career spanning over 15 years in the energy industry, she brings a wealth of expertise and a proven track record of excellence. Prior to joining, Gisela led Nest’s Smart Home and Energy Partnerships at Google, with a focus on formulating and executing growth strategies for cutting-edge products and cultivating strategic partnerships. Prior to Google, Gisela held various positions in business development and marketing leadership at Bloom Energy and Constellation Energy. She holds a BA from The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance.