Jigah Shah

PARTNER | INERJYS

Jigar recently joined Inerjys, a $1 billion fund that invests in clean energy via growth capital and project finance. Jigar is an entrepreneur and visionary committed to creating the next $10 trillion economy by unlocking capital markets that invest in proven technologies to achieve two goals: solving the biggest problems of our time and generating market-competitive, compelling financial returns for investors. Jigar’s first foray into realizing this mission was the founding of SunEdison in 2003, today the world’s leading solar services company. SunEdison simplified solar by making it a service through the implementation of the power purchase agreement (PPA) business model. This groundbreaking model helped turn solar PV into a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. After successfully exiting SunEdison, Jigar served as the first CEO of the Carbon War Room, the global organization founded by Sir Richard Branson to harness the power of entrepreneurs to deploy proven climate change solution technologies at scale. Jigar’s leadership was instrumental in helping build the organization into one of global importance. Jigar is a regular contributor to top-tier media and is author of the upcoming book: The Impact Economy.