NineDot Energy
Karen Alter has extensive work experience in marketing and operations roles. Karen currently holds the position of Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at NineDot Energy since 2022. Prior to that, they worked as a Principal at Private Company Consulting from 2021 to 2022. From 2015 to 2021, Karen served as the Chief Marketing and Operations Officer at CocoTerra. Karen was also the Chief Marketing and Operations Officer at SIPX, Inc., a Stanford spin-out acquired by ProQuest, from 2012 to 2014. Before joining SIPX, Karen was an Executive in Residence at XSeed Capital Management in 2011. Karen worked as the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Solyndra in 2010-2011 and as the Vice President of Global Marketing at Better Place from 2008 to 2010. Prior to that, Karen was the Vice President for Strategy at Rapt from 2000 to 2007. Karen started their career at Intel Corporation, where they held various roles including Vice President of Marketing and Planning from 1992 to 2000.
Karen Alter has an MBA in General Management from Harvard Business School and an AB in Government from Harvard University.
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NineDot Energy
NineDot Energy creates innovative energy solutions that make the urban grid cleaner, more equitable, more resilient and less costly. Our current development focus is on building and operating battery storage sites in the New York City metropolitan area, including Westchester and Long Island. We are working to enable vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities at our projects as well. The NineDot Energy name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. Our “outside the box” creativity combines business model innovation and community-centered solutions to catalyze clean energy projects in high-value parts of the electric utility grid. Based at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Urban Future Lab in Brooklyn, New York. We have received financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) and the Carlyle investment group, among others.