Brad Crist (SFS ’12, STIA) has spent over a decade at the intersection of energy infrastructure and technology. After studying energy and environmental science at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, he advised Fortune 500 utilities with Accenture and lead product development at Volta Charging, where he oversaw $500M+ of EV infrastructure rollouts across the U.S. That experience gave him a front-row seat to the operational gap holding back EV adoption: public charging that doesn’t work.

Brad co-founded ChargeMate AI with Brian Lange (formerly of IDEO) to build the AI reliability platform for EV charging and distributed energy infrastructure. The company is backed by 500 Global, member of the DOE ChargeX Consortium, and serves customers including Mercedes-Benz, Hypercharge, and Electric Era.