Sheldon Kimber is CEO and Founder of Intersect, a clean energy company developing large-scale renewable power and data center infrastructure solutions for AI and industrial customers. He has over 20 years of experience in energy finance, development, and entrepreneurship.

Before founding Intersect in 2016, Sheldon served as COO of Recurrent Energy, helping build it from an early-stage startup to a market leader with over 2 GW of projects. He previously worked at Calpine, Goldman Sachs, and Accenture in energy finance and strategy roles.

Sheldon holds a BA in Economics from Kenyon College and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he taught Project Finance for 10 years. He is an active board member in clean energy organizations and an angel investor in the sector.

Under Sheldon's leadership, Intersect has developed, built, and operates over $4 billion in electric generation and energy storage assets with an additional $9 billion under construction. The company raised over $2 billion in equity from investors including TPG Rise Climate and Google, and was acquired by Google for $4.75 billion in December 2025.

Intersect operates 2.2 GW of solar and 1.4 GWh of battery storage, making it one of the largest battery operators in the country. The company's strategic partnership with Google targets $20 billion in renewable infrastructure investment to power AI data centers across the US.