Ivo Steklac - CEO

Ivo Steklac has over 20 years of metering and AMI experience, having held various leadership positions in research and development, marketing, and general management before taking the helm at Greenbox.

Ivo is a true pioneer in the industry, working on interactive energy management technology before most people had heard the term "smart grid." While Vice President of Marketing for Energy Utilities at Schlumberger, Ivo led the groundbreaking development of one of the earliest examples of consumer empowerment and energy management: Puget Sound Energy's Personal Energy Management program. The program earned Puget the Edison Electric Institute's Utility of the Year Award in 2001 and national recognition during the energy crisis of the same year.

Earlier in his career at Schlumberger, Ivo led a corporate research group in the development of key technologies that enabled the first high-volume solid-state communicating electricity meter to be developed, a meter that paved the way to cost effective pervasive AMI, and today powers 10's of millions of such networks.

In 2003, he founded Enspiria Solutions, Inc. a consultancy and systems integrator with a strong focus in energy management and operational efficiency within advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand response, and smart grid. Enspiria successfully developed solution implementation roadmaps and business cases for more than 40 million of the nations meters. Enspiria's innovative approach was positioning AMI as an enterprise asset, enabling the utilization of AMI data across all relevant utility operations; from customer care and billing, to work management, field-force automation, planning and engineering, energy management, rates, integrated resource planning, and asset optimization.

Most recently Ivo served as Global Vice President for Elster Integrated Solutions where he initiated the world-wide transformation of the business into a smart metering and smart grid solution provider.

Ivo was born in what is now the Czech Republic but immigrated to Canada as a young boy. He holds an Engineering and Computer Science degree from Queen's University at Kingston Ontario, Canada.