About Kaizen Clean Energy
Get ahead of the grid.
In 2020, our co-founders, Robert Meaney & Eric Smith, identified a critical challenge in the power market: an aging electrical grid incapable of supporting the transition to an electrified economy.
Expanding grid capacity to your premises is a multi-year project encumbered by lengthy approval processes, long equipment lead times and shortages of skilled labor.
Our solution? A clean, affordable replacement for diesel generators that delivers off-grid, on-demand power wherever and whenever needed. Get ahead of the grid!
Our mobile, modular system harnesses liquid fuel to reduce costly hydrogen transportation, scale with your needs—without permanent infrastructure—and ensure the energy reliability you and your customers depend on.
After multiple deployments, we have a field-tested solution ready to go.
Are you ready to generate affordable clean power where and when needed?
We are!
Our Team
Eric Smith
Co-Founder
eric.smith@kaizencleanenergy.com
For the last 13-years, Eric has helped companies just like yours mitigate risk, maximize revenue, and stay ahead of the competition. He is excited to help you simplify your clean energy transition and take the lead over your competition.
Eric’s experience includes developing commercial & business strategies supporting a $8 billion greenfield LNG project that was acquired in 2019. Recently, Eric has worked with institutional investors and corporations mitigating commercial, contractual, and execution risk related to investments in greenfield LNG, petrochemical, and renewable energy projects.
Eric spent 9-years in the U.S. Air Force where he was assigned to the National Security Agency and managed global intelligence missions.
Robert Meaney
Co-Founder
robert.meaney@kaizencleanenergy.com
Robert leverages his technical & commercial expertise to accelerate the clean energy transition through the simplification of risk and technologies. Recently, Robert served as a clean energy authority for E1 Marine, a newly formed company that will deploy a proven methanol -to- hydrogen technology to decarbonize the multibillion-dollar marine transportation fuel industry.
Robert’s experience includes advising institutional investors on clean energy technologies. Additionally, Robert has worked with clean energy companies to optimize business plans, increase economic returns, and mitigate risk. Robert has also worked with licensor technologies and led risk, commercial, and/or project teams on over $15 billion of committed capital.
Craig Klaasmeyer
Co-Founder
craig.klaasmeyer@kaizencleanenergy.com
Mr. Klaasmeyer has over 30 years of experience as an Investment Banker with Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He was most recently a Managing Director in Credit Suisse’s Energy group based in Houston where he focused on financing for LNG companies. Prior to his Houston role, he was the Head of European Leveraged Finance Origination for Credit Suisse based in London. During his career, he has raised over $100B in financings for his clients across IPOs, secondary equity offerings, and investment grade and high yield debt offerings.
Mr. Klaasmeyer utilizes his Investment Banking experience to raise capital, develop commercial structures and pursue grants and tax credits on behalf of Kaizen.
Angela Strand
Senior Advisor
angela.strand@kaizencleanenergy.com
Angela is an experienced executive, advisor, director, and serial entrepreneur with a 25-year track record of founding and building disruptive, technology-based products and companies across a range of diverse global industries, including e-mobility, infrastructure, technology, software and transportation and logistics. Considered a pioneer in the commercial electric vehicle sector, she helped scale early commercial EV fleet adoption in North America. She currently serves as chair of Gateway Fleets, a Partners Group funded company, and recently served as chair of SEA Electric, a Tier 1 electric power train and technology supplier. Angela served as a director of Nuvve, a grid modernization and vehicle to grid software company, was a co-founder of In-Charge Energy, and a launch advisor for Duke Energy’s eTransEnergy business. She is presently the managing director of Strand Strategy, a boutique technology advisory firm and serves as an independent director on multiple public and private boards.
Alan Kneisz
Commercial Advisor
Alan has a 30-year track record of developing commercial technology applications across Asia, Europe and North America. He has led commercial development in multiple organizations with functional roles in business development, marketing, sales, distribution development, joint ventures and licensing.
Alan has spent the last 17 years working in the Hydrogen, Fuel Cell and eFuels industries. He has led early groundbreaking projects in Power & Mobility based on eFuels and hydrogen-based technologies. His most recent role was as VP Sales and Marketing of a European-based methanol-to-power technology company where he applied his practical approach to decarbonization using cutting edge technologies.