Green Gravity with Robert Piconi If you've listened to the show, you have heard academics from Berkeley and MIT insist that in order to have renewable energy, you must have grid-level energy storage. Not only that, but the storage would need to be as green as the energy it is collecting. Join Dave McCall as he hosts Rob Piconi, CEO of Energy Vault, as they discuss how gravity is the ultimate green storage on the next QTS Experience. About Our Guest: Robert Piconi is Chairman, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for the overall vision, strategic direction and operational performance of the company. Robert’s experience includes prior Executive leadership roles in Fortune 100 public companies across various industries including Diversified Energy (Amoco/British Petroleum), Telecommunications (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies), and Security/Network Management Software (Danaher Corporation). Within the private sector, he also founded and developed several innovative Healthcare service and medical device companies within the European market which were later acquired by Private Equity funds and/or large industry conglomerates. Robert completed his BS/BBA undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame and his graduate MBA studies at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. About Energy Vault:
https://www.energyvault.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertpiconi/
Energy Vault creates renewable energy storage solutions designed to advance the global transition to a carbon free, resilient power grid and transform the world’s approach to utility scale energy storage. At Energy Vault, we work to combat climate change by enabling clean and reliable electricity through innovation in renewable energy storage. Utilizing a unique approach to the circular economy that integrates energy waste for beneficial reuse at unprecedented economics, Energy Vault innovates to accelerate the shift to a fully renewable world.
(https://www.energyvault.com)
