Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Emily McAteer

Emily McAteer '07

CEO and Co-Founder, Odyssey Energy Solutions

Biography

Emily McAteer is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Odyssey Energy Solutions, a finance and technology platform to scale investment in distributed renewable energy (DRE) in growth markets. Odyssey is facilitating more than $2B into the sector globally.

Prior to Odyssey, Emily was Chief Revenue Officer of Frontier Power, a subsidiary of SunEdison, a microgrid development company in India and Africa. Emily was also a Fulbright Scholar focused on off-grid solar systems in India and worked in advanced energy management at EnerNOC and Yahoo. Emily holds a BA from Brown University, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Recent News

Energy Empire Podcast

Live with Emily McAteer at Odyssey Energy Solutions

IBES Advisory Council member Emily McAteer, CEO and co-founder of Odyssey, joined energy entrepreneur Jigar Shah to discuss how weak, unreliable grids combined with plummeting solar and battery costs make distributed solar the cheapest option in many emerging markets.
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