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Nana Menya Ayensu is an energy infrastructure investor and technology commercialization executive, with over fifteen years of experience delivering new energy solutions in the US and globally. He fuses deep technical rigor and commercial markets & structuring expertise to make innovative energy infrastructure investable and executable. He served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President on Climate Policy, Finance, and Innovation, where he led a suite of activities to accelerate the deployment of modern, clean, affordable, and resilient power systems, in the US, Africa, and Europe. This included modernizing the electric grid, tackling deployment barriers for advanced energy solutions, charting new pathways to address the AI x energy challenge, and developing new capital solutions and partnerships. Prior to that, Nana was a Partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, where he built and invested in first-of-a-kind technology-enabled infrastructure platforms, such as grid-edge flexible data centers. He also spent nine years at GE. He financed renewable & thermal power projects, developing new investment strategies and market analytics at GE Energy Financial Services. As part of GE Global Research’s Edison Program, he led technoeconomic model development for new energy storage technologies, to guide GE’s technology prioritization, venture investing, and business development activities. Nana has an S.B. (Hons) in mechanical engineering from Harvard University and a M.S. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University.