Bill Nussey

Bill Nussey is CEO of Freeing Energy, a media organization that began as a TED talk and grew to become the #1 ranked renewable energy podcast (Feedspot). Bill is also the author of a new book called Freeing Energy, which was Amazon’s #1 New Release in the energy, solar, and energy policy categories. Freeing Energy targets entrepreneurs, investors, and policy innovators with a radical and widely overlooked path to a clean energy future: local-scale energy systems for families and communities like rooftop solar and microgrids. It offers a practical guide to this trillion-dollar opportunity that will disrupt and democratize the world’s energy industries. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Solar Inventions, a startup created to commercialize a family of patented, scientific breakthroughs for improving the manufacturing of solar cells and panels. Bill is a career tech CEO. His companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value. His first startup, which he co-founded in high school, provided graphics software for early, text-based personal computers. His second company, Da Vinci Systems, was started in 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 run a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to almost $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as CEO. Silverpop grew to nearly $100 million 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 VP of Corporate Strategy out of IBM's world headquarters in New York, helping lead global strategy for the company’s CEO and SVPs. Bill received a degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has received several patents and has published three books.