Contributors
Lynn Jurich. Lynn co-founded SunRun because she believes going green is the most important social objective and economic opportunity of the 21st Century. Previously Lynn was a member of the investment team at Summit Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm with over $9 billion under management. During her tenure at Summit Partners, Lynn completed investments with an aggregate market value of over $900 million in the financial services and technology sectors. Lynn holds an MBA and BS from Stanford University.
Edward Fenster. Ed co-founded SunRun because he believes sustainable electricity production is the key to environmental preservation and international harmony. Prior to starting SunRun, Ed was a founder of Transforma (AMEX: TAQ), CEO of Avestar-IP, and Director of Corporate Development at Asurion Corporation. Before moving to California, Ed completed more than $10 billion in private equity and merger and acquisitions transactions while at The Blackstone Group in New York. Ed’s investing activities have included companies headquartered in six countries and span the energy, telecommunications, biotechnology, software, industrials, and consumer and financial services industries. He also serves as an Advisory Partner to Millennium Technology Value Partners. Ed holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He spends his free time composing for and playing blues organ and piano. He is a member of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Nami Sung. An East Coaster for over two decades, Nami packed up her bags post-graduation from Harvard and moved out west in 2009 in search of her American dream. She found this dream at SunRun. Greatly interested (and invested!) in sustainability and online media, Nami jumped at the chance to immerse herself in the social media and marketing arm of SunRun. She is now the Marketing Analyst at SunRun and works on creating fresh new content for Sweet Solar Home. You can reach her at nami@sunrunhome.com and follow her on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/sunrun_nami.
Allana Helland. Allana has lived on all four borders of the United States (Massachusetts, Texas, Minnesota, and California), giving her a unique cross-regional view as a marketer. At SunRun, she draws on her artistic passions to bring solar to life as the Brand and Events Marketing Manager. A self proclaimed “hostess with the most-ess”, she loves throwing dinner parties, as well as painting, traveling, and crafting on weekends. Along with her husband and neighbors, she’s developing an urban farm in her small San Francisco backyard.
Wendy Chuah. Wendy originally hails from Melbourne, Australia, and moved to the Bay Area when she was in high school. Since then, she has never looked back. Whilst studying Political Science and Psychology at Stanford University, her interest in renewable energy and cleantech was piqued from her time abroad in Germany. Working in marketing in the solar sphere is exactly what Wendy loves to do and getting to do it at SunRun is the very big cherry on top. In her spare time she enjoys playing tennis, trying new restaurants, and writing and playing music (come see her perform at local coffee houses!).
Sydney Larson. Sydney was inspired to work in the solar industry after realizing the gravity of climate change and peak oil. She holds a B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology from Vanderbilt University where she performed genetics research for which she was recently published in the Journal of Biological Rhythms. Sydney is an aspiring “locovore” and enjoys playing the piano and the bassoon in her spare time.
