Matt Cheney
Chief Executive Officer at Catalyst Energy Partners
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Cheney is a veteran clean energy entrepreneur and CEO based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience developing, financing, and exiting utility-scale and distributed renewables globally. He founded and led multiple platform businesses—including MMA Renewable Ventures, CleanPath, Conveyance Capital, and now Catalyst Energy—sourcing and syndicating over $800M of tax equity and helping engineer exits such as a $290M sale into SunEdison. A policy-savvy operator, he helped design virtual net metering that contributed to California’s SB43 and has repeatedly blended legislative, commercial, and technical approaches to scale community and distributed energy solutions. His career spans hands-on project delivery in emerging markets (including microgrids in Uganda) to building software-enabled platforms that marry geospatial data and AI with finance to accelerate deployment. Known as a persuasive public speaker and dealmaker, he combines deep project finance expertise with practical field experience from USAID infrastructure work to global M&A. Outside boardrooms he’s half “chaos wizard,” which explains a restless drive to treat energy transitions with bold, creative bets.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Civil Engineering/International Economics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Civil Engineering/International Economics at American UniversityJohns Hopkins University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
drupal10
artifact10
quicksilver10
sarif10
pantheon10
travis-ci10
duplicates10
documentation10
automation9
php8
wp-cli8
continuous-delivery8
assembly8
backdrop7
wordpress7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
populist/my-great-demo-site-1
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:281 PRs, 278 branches, 262 comments in 1 year 7 months
populist/d8
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:232 PRs, 231 branches, 212 comments in 2 years 1 month
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