PANELIST

Jun Shimada

Jun Shimada

Founder, CEO, ThinkEco, Inc.

Jun is the founder and CEO of ThinkEco, an energy efficiency start up based in NYC. Under Jun's leadership, ThinkEco has emerged as one of NYC's key cleantech successes by offering its patented, internet-of-things (IoT) platform to perform utility services, including the CoolNYC program with Con Edison. Prior to ThinkEco, Jun was a founding team member of the biotech start-up Vitae Pharmaceuticals from seed to Series B funding. In addition, Jun has experience in equity research with Deutsche Bank and theoretical / computational biophysics research at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Jun is the author of several US patents, numerous peer-review articles, and book chapters. Jun received his BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard.

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