Sheldon Kimber is the CEO and Founder of Intersect.
Sheldon has been a builder, a leader, and an innovator in energy and infrastructure throughout his career. His leadership, experience, and understanding of energy and financial markets have been a key part of building multiple startups into some of the largest companies in their respective industries.
In his role as CEO and Founder of Intersect, Sheldon defined a unique vision for the future of the energy sector with proven innovations in financing and supply chain and a differentiated growth strategy at the intersection of electrification and digitalization. With unprecedented speed and alongside one of the best teams in the industry, he has overseen the transformation of this vision into one of the largest infrastructure companies in North America. Under his leadership, the company has developed, built and operates over $4 billion in electric generation and energy storage assets and is currently constructing an additional $9 billion of energy and digital infrastructure that will be online by the end of 2027.
Prior to founding Intersect, Sheldon served as Chief Operating Officer at Recurrent Energy, helping to build the company from an early-stage startup to a market leadership position in North America. During his tenure, Recurrent successfully developed over 2 GW of electric generation across the U.S. and Canada.
Sheldon previously spent five years at Calpine, one of the nation’s largest power generation companies, working on the finance and development of gas-fired power projects. He has also worked as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and as a strategy consultant at Accenture, specializing in power-price forecasting and asset valuation for utility clients.
Sheldon holds a BA in Economics from Kenyon College and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he spent 10 years teaching Project Finance in the full-time MBA program. He is also an active member of several non-profit boards and an angel investor and advisor within the clean energy sector.
Sheldon lives in Truckee with his family, where he coaches youth basketball and dreams of project financing the first space-based energy projects.
