John Jung is a global investment executive with over 30 years of experience building, scaling, and monetizing energy and infrastructure platforms across North America, Europe, and high-growth international markets. He specializes in transforming advanced technologies into large-scale, bankable industrial systems supported by long-term institutional capital. From 2009 to 2018, Mr. Jung was Founder, President, and CEO of Greensmith Energy, where he built one of the world’s leading grid-scale energy storage platforms. Under his leadership, Greensmith deployed approximately one-third of total U.S. energy storage capacity in 2016 and was acquired by Wärtsilä in 2017, establishing the foundation of Wärtsilä’s global energy storage business.
Mr. Jung brings deep expertise in capital structuring, public–private partnerships, and energy transition infrastructure. He is a Partner at Cota Capital and an Independent Director of Elum Energy and has held board and executive roles at Energy Vault (NYSE: NRGV), BrightNight, Wärtsilä, and other energy and industrial technology companies. He holds a BA from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the Ivey Business School.