Chad Gallinat is Conservation X Labs’ Foundry Director working with both the Directed Innovation and Open Innovation teams. He currently supports the development of the Sentinel, administration of the Amazon CoLab, and the design of the Fire Grand Challenge. Since joining CXLabs in January 2018, he’s lead and/or supported the design and implementation of numerous Open Innovation activities including the Global Cooling Prize, the Ohia Challenge, the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenges (both Global- and Amazon-focused versions), and the ARSX Challenge.
Chad has a PhD in Materials Engineering and around 10 years of experience working as both a research scientist advancing important clean energy technologies as well as an energy policy advisor managing and coordinating global energy efficiency policy activities between government officials, industry partners, and other stakeholders. Before joining CXLabs he managed a range of multilateral and bilateral energy efficiency efforts designed to engage the public- and private-sectors, including the Clean Energy Ministerial’s Advanced Cooling and Global Lighting Challenges. Chad has experience in the private sector and with a national laboratory performing fundamental scientific research and analysis improving the energy efficiency of a variety of advanced functional materials. Chad is passionate about improving people’s lives by accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies that are climate friendly and economically viable.
