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Keith Gipson

Founder / CEO

One of the top building automation technicians at Honeywell in the late 80’s and engineers at Johnson Controls in the mid 90’s, Keith Gipson has been a pioneer in the Buildings IoT, Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) industries and technology for over forty years.

In 1997 Keith Co-Founded the first EEM company, Silicon Energy Corp., which was sold to Itron in 2001 for $71 Million. In 2005 Keith co-founded Shield Ops Inc. He architected an AI-driven CSI and evidence linking program to help law enforcement discover, classify, and correlate crime data as featured on the television show CSI Las Vegas (Season 10, Episode 4, “Coup De Grace”)

Most recently Keith was CTO of Phoenix Energy Technologies, which he also co-founded, where he architected the Enterprise DX (Data eXchange) EEM platform that monitors and controls over 16,000 retail and commercial buildings, one of the largest integrated, web-based EEM platforms ever created. In March of 2020, after thirteen years, Keith left Phoenix ET to apply his vision and experience to build an AI-driven autonomous optimization solution (facil.ai). Keith holds a United States patent (US 6,178,362 Enterprise Energy Management System and Method 2001) and was honored by Southern California Edison as “A Modern Day African-American Inventor” for his contributions to the electric utility industry. He resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Andrea.

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