At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Smart Building space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Liz Sisson
COO of Urban Us
Liz is the newest team member at Urban Us. Before joining the team, Liz was Managing Director of the network at the Roosevelt Institute, an economic think tank. In that role, she managed programs that deployed public policy initiatives in local communities across the country. The initiatives spanned across a variety of subjects including economic development, transportation, human rights, environmental impact and housing. Liz has also done consulting work on state government programs related to transportation and the environment. She primarily worked on reducing congestion and greenhouse gas emissions in New York State through an alternative transportation and carpooling initiative, 511NY. Liz graduated from Bentley University in 2012.
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About Urban Us, URBAN-X: Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.
Stephen Frangione
COO of RueOne Investments
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
James Frost
President and Chief Operating Officer of Tutor Perini
Jack A. Frost has served as President and Chief Operating Officer and as a director since February 2015. In addition, since 2008, Mr. Frost has served as CEO of Tutor Perini’s Civil Group. He originally joined the Company’s predecessor, Tutor-Saliba, in 1988 and quickly climbed to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Tutor-Saliba, Mr. Frost founded and was the majority owner of his own general construction company, which he successfully operated for ten years. Earlier, he spent more than four years in active duty military service with the United States Air Force, during which time he trained and became certified as an expert in explosive ordnance management and disposal. He served multiple tours of duty in Southeast Asia and attended several schools and conducted assignments with the U.S. Navy, Marines and Army. Mr. Frost studied engineering at the College of Southern Maryland, at Texas State University and at the University of Texas in Austin. He also completed a two-year business management program at the University of Phoenix in Woodland Hills, California. Over the course of his career, Mr. Frost has gained extensive executive leadership experience in construction management and operations, overseeing numerous projects, including many of the Company’s largest and most difficult building and civil projects.
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About Tutor Perini: Tutor Perini is a civil and building construction company offering diversified general contracting and design-build services to clients.
Ronald Westhauser
COO of Redaptive
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About Redaptive: Redaptive is an Efficiency-as-a-Service tool for commercial and industrial customers.
Maximilian Schuetz
Co-Founder & COO of Kisi Security
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About Kisi Security: Kisi is a unified access control system for physical spaces
Heather Russell
Co Founder & COO of Biscuit
Heather Russell is a serial entrepreneur originally from Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 24, she moved to Japan, learned the language and built her second company Rinkya.com – a global eCommerce and logistics company. Heather lived in Japan for 12 years during which time she grew Rinkya in to a multimillion dollar business. Rinkya services over 180 countries and has sent over 500,000 packages around the world. She now resides in San Francisco and is working full time on her third company, Biscuit.io, which is Artificial Intelligence for building automation.. London. Tokyo. San Francisco.
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About Biscuit: Stealth-mode
Sam Bergh
COO of Halio
Dr. Sam Bergh is also a co-founder and has over 12 years of experience in process development and systems design. Dr. Bergh was formerly VP of Engineering at Symyx and received his PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of over 25 issued patents.
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About Halio: Halio is developing adaptive, dynamic glass for the commercial, residential, and automotive markets.
Daipayan Bhattacharya
President / COO of Plant Prefab
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About Boost Consulting LLC, Plant Prefab: Plant Prefab is a prefabricated design and construction company dedicated to sustainable construction, materials, processes, and operations.
David Gagnon
Co-Founder & COO of Tank Utility
Dave brings a long history as an entrepreneur in a number of fields. His most notable success was as a founder and Executive Vice President of Degree Controls, producing smart cooling products for the telecom industry. He is very excited by building a company from the ground up with a strong group of fleet-footed individuals. Outside of the office Dave can be found spending time with family and generally enjoying life.
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About Tank Utility: Tank Utility streamlines energy delivery for those that rely on truck-delivered oil or propane.
Kelci Russell
Chief Operating Officer of Innovative Mobile Technologies
Kelci Russell is Chief Operating Officer at Innovative Mobile Technologies.
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About Innovative Mobile Technologies: IMT will use already developed home automation technology from Control4 and energy management software developed by Greenbox to provide.
Bobak Ranjbaran
Cofounder and COO of Hawkeye Innovations Inc.
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About Hawkeye Innovations Inc.: IoT and Smart Home Tech Company Creating Next Generation Smart Automoation Technology
Chris Millard
COO of Interphase Materials
VP Operations for Interphase Materials. Past: Program Manager – AlphaLab Gear | Marketing Director – WizzyWig (YC S’13) | Marketing – 8020 Select (AlphaLab W’12)
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About Interphase Materials: Interphase Materials creates solutions for the improvement of the efficiency of water-based cooling systems.
Serge Tychyna
COO of haus.me
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About haus.me, Passive House Institute: Haus.me – Autonomous Self-Sustainable Homes
Serge Tychyna
COO of haus.me
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About haus.me, Passive House Institute: Haus.me – Autonomous Self-Sustainable Homes