Cathy has spent her career in the energy and environmental sectors at the nexus between technology, management, and policy. She currently serves on the boards of directors of ConEd, Scale Microgrids (Chair), and SPAN.io and is on the advisory boards of EQT's Energy Transitions Fund and APAX's Global Impact Fund. For six years, Cathy was CEO of EVgo, the leading publicly traded electric vehicle fast-charging infrastructure company in the U.S. Prior to EVgo, she co-founded Odyssey Energy Solutions, a software platform serving the minigrid sector, was CEO of Frontier Power, a rural electrification company incubated by SunEdison, and an adjunct professor and Precourt Energy Scholar at Stanford University. 

Cathy served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary and Acting Under Secretary at the Department of Energy, where she oversaw more than $30 billion in energy investments. Cathy was the founding CEO of both the Alliance for Climate Protection, established and chaired by U.S. Vice President Al Gore; and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority, a $50m fund to commercialize clean energy technologies in New South Wales, Australia. In the early 1990s, she was Chief of Staff for Environmental Policy in the Clinton White House and she pioneered the Energy Star program while at the U.S. EPA. 

Cathy has a B.S. in Geology (Honors/Magna cum laude) from Duke University and a M.S. in engineering from Dartmouth.