Board of Directors

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Red Jar Energy Partners

Andrew is co-Founder of Red Jar with over 20 years of experience in the industrial manufacturing, merchant banking, and advanced energy sectors. Andrew has been a lifelong investor and entrepreneur, focusing on identifying key trends, opportunity sourcing, building teams, and leveraging his network.​

Andrew was co-Founder & Vice Board Chair at Spark Power. He was co-CEO at Spark from its inception, leading the company’s initial efforts in renewables development and spearheading the company’s strategic direction to develop sustainability offerings.  After helping build a strong management team, Andrew stepped back into the Vice Chair board role, with a focus on Corporate Sustainability.  Prior to founding Spark, Andrew held several executive-level operations and finance roles.

A voice for environmental stewardship and Corporate Social Responsibility, Andrew is a passionate leader and advocate for advanced energy solutions who is frequently sought out by various private and not-for-profit boards, power panels, and CSR specialists to lend his perspective on the distributed grid, the rapidly changing power sector, and to inspire corporations to think about, consume, and generate electricity differently.

Andrew holds an MBA degree from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University.