Chief Executive Officer, Plentify
Jon Kornik is the Chief Executive Officer of Plentify, a smart-energy technology company that enables utilities to deliver more reliable, affordable and sustainable services.
Prior to Plentify, Jon spent his career working at the intersection of energy, technology and finance. Jon led Google’s energy business in Africa where he helped fund the largest wind and solar farms in Africa and developed technology products to expand energy access. Before joining Google, he acted as an independent energy and sustainability consultant where his projects included helping the South African government develop a financing scheme to draw international capital into the then-nascent renewables sector, and helping Nike improve the sustainability of their supply chain. He also founded and built the African office of South Pole Group, a multinational carbon finance and climate consulting firm, and consulted for McKinsey & Company primarily in the mining and energy sectors.
Jon has a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Masters in Finance from the University of Cape Town. He is an Echoing Green Fellow, Feldberg Fellow and Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow.