The Board of Directors further strengthens Stem’s expertise in renewable energy generation, storage, technology, infrastructure, and climate solutions.

MILLBRAE, Calif. – February 18, 2021 – Stem, Inc. (“Stem”), a global leader in artificial intelligence (A.I.)-driven clean energy storage systems, today announced its Board of Directors for the combined company that will result from its previously announced merger with Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. (“Star Peak”), a publicly-traded particular purpose acquisition company, expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2021.

“We have assembled a best-in-class Board of Directors comprised of seasoned energy, technology and policy leaders,” said John Carrington, Chief Executive Officer of Stem. “The collective experience of the board candidates in renewable energy generation, energy storage, grid services, technology, energy infrastructure, and policy and climate solutions provides Stem with deep domain expertise that will guide our Company’s global growth strategy and long-term vision as a publicly-traded company.”

Stem’s post-merger Board of Directors will be comprised of eight (8) members, seven (7) of whom are “independent directors” as defined in the NYSE listing standards and applicable S.E.C. rules. Individuals to comprise Stem’s post-combination Board of Directors include the following:

• Mr John Carrington, Chief Executive Officer and Director
• Mr. David Buzby, Chairman
• Mr. Adam E. Daley
• Mr. Michael C. Morgan
• Mr. Anil Tammineedi
• Ms. Lisa L. Troe
• Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson
• Ms. Jane Woodward

Additional Information on Board Members

John Carrington is the Chief Executive Officer and Director for STEM. Mr. Carrington leads the energy storage and analytics movement at Stem. Mr. Carrington has over 25 years of leadership experience at technology, energy, and industrial companies. 2011, Mr. Carrington joined Stem from MiaSole, the world’s largest CIGS-based thin-film solar company. From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Carrington served as Chief Executive Officer and Director at MiaSole. Before MiaSole, from 2008 to 2009, Mr Carrington was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at First Solar, where he grew the company’s revenue from $250 million to more than $2 billion and opened markets in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. From 1991 to 2008, Mr. Carrington worked at General Electric, most recently as General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer of the $7 billion G.E. Plastics, where he led global innovation, new technology efforts, and product strategy. He was also part of a small team that led the sale of the G.E. Plastics business to Sabic for $12B. He is an alumnus of the University of Colorado, where he earned his B.A. in Economics.

David Buzby has been starting, building, and investing in 12 climate transition businesses over the last 30 years, emphasizing renewable energy generation, energy storage/grid services, and e-commerce. These companies have been at the forefront of financial innovation in the climate transition industry, developing the world’s first commercial and solar P.P.A.s and energy storage as a service agreement. The innovations created industry-leading platform companies (SunRun, Stem, SunEdison) and attracted hundreds of billions of capital to business models that propelled overall industry growth. Mr Buzby has been on the Board of Stem since 2010, Leading Edge Equipment Technologies since 2017, Cambrian Innovation from 2016 to 2020, and ParagonClinicals since 2020. He was the founder and C.E.O. of Bright Plain Renewable Energy from 2011 – 2016 and a member of the Investment Committee at the PRIME Coalition. He has previously been a founding investor and director of SunRun (NASD: RUN), SunEdison (NYSE: SUNE), Valueclick (NASD: VCLK), Prevalent Power, Resource Holdings, and Best Internet. David has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Middlebury College.

Adam E. Daley is a partner at Magnetar Capital, co-head of Magnetar’s Energy & Infrastructure Group, and a member of Magnetar’s management and investment committees. Since joining Magnetar at its inception in 2005, Mr. Daley has been focused primarily on the sourcing, execution, and management of various investments in the energy, energy infrastructure, and renewables sectors. Mr. Daley is currently a director of STPK. Before joining Magnetar, he was an investment banker at Citigroup’s Global Corporate and Investment Bank, responsible for executing various corporate finance transactions. Mr. Daley also currently serves on the boards of directors of Star Peak Corp II (NYSE: STPC), Double Eagle Energy III, L.L.C., Vesper Energy Development L.L.C., and DoublePoint Energy, L.L.C. Mr. Daley earned a B.S. in Finance with High Honors from the University of Illinois.

Michael C. Morgan is the Chairman of Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. In 2008, Mr. Morgan co-founded Triangle Peak Partners, LP, a multi-strategy asset management firm focused on venture capital and growth equity, and he currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Since 2004, Mr. Morgan has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Portcullis Partners, L.P., a private investment partnership and one of Triangle Peak Partners’ largest limited partners. Mr Morgan is the lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: K.M.I.), one of North America’s largest energy infrastructure companies. Mr. Morgan joined Kinder Morgan at its founding in 1997 and headed Kinder Morgan’s corporate development efforts until 2001, completing 23 acquisitions worth over $5 billion. He then served as President of K.M.I. until 2004. Mr. Morgan has also served on the board of Sunnova Energy International, Inc. (NYSE: NOVA), a leading residential solar and energy storage company, since June 2019. Mr Morgan currently serves on the board of directors of Star Peak Corp II (NYSE: STPC) and is a frequent volunteer at Stanford University, currently serving as the national chair of The Stanford Fund, as co-chair of the Precourt Energy Institute Advisory Council, and on several other advisory committees. Mr. Morgan received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a B.A. in Economics, and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University.

Anil Tammineedi has been with Angeleno Group, a leading global investment firm focused on high-growth clean energy and climate solutions companies, since 2008, where he leads investments across several sectors, including sustainable mobility, energy storage, resource efficiency, and intelligent infrastructure. Mr. Tammineedi serves on the Boards of Stem, Critigen, and Patriot Environmental Services and is a Board Observer at mPrest. Mr Tammineedi has several years of technology and operating experience at Broadcom, where he worked from 1999 to 2006 in product development and management roles related to semiconductors targeting communications, mobile, and power management applications. Mr Tammineedi has an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he also currently serves as a Faculty Advisor to the Business Creation Option of the capstone project and an M.S. from Iowa State University.

Lisa L. Troe is a Senior Managing Director of Athena Advisors L.L.C., a business advisory firm she co-founded in 2014 that provides services in securities litigation, public company accounting, financial reporting and disclosure, auditing, compliance systems, enterprise risk management, and other business needs and strategies. From 2005 through 2013, Ms. Troe was a Senior Managing Director at F.T.I. Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: F.C.N.) is a global business advisory firm. From 1995 through 2005, Ms. Troe served on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Pacific regional office staff, including seven years as an Enforcement Branch Chief and six years as Regional Chief Enforcement Accountant. Before joining the S.E.C., Ms. Troe was an auditor at a Big Four public accounting firm and held corporate accounting and financial positions in the fossil fuels energy industry. Ms Troe serves as a director and the audit committee chair of Magnite, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGNI), an independent platform that employs machine learning algorithms to purchase and sell digital advertising, joining the board shortly before the company’s public offering in 2014. Ms. Troe has served as a director and audit committee chair on private company boards. Ms Troe received her B.S. in Business Administration with honours from the University of Colorado.

Laura D’Andrea Tyson is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School and Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, positions she has held since 2016. She has also been the Chair of the Board of Trustees and Steering Committee Member of the Blum Center for Developing Economies since 2007. She has been the faculty director of the Berkeley Haas Blockchain Initiative and the co-faculty director of the Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative at the Haas School of Business since 2019. Dr Tyson is currently serving as a director of the CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), the world’s most extensive commercial real estate services and investment firm, having acted on the acquisition committee from joining the board in 2010 to 2014 and currently acting on the audit committee since 2014. She has also served on the board of directors of Lexmark International Inc., an American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products, and Apex Swiss Holdings, SARL, since 2017. Dr Tyson also served on the board of directors of AT&T (NYSE: T) from 1999 to 2020, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: M.S.) from 1997 to 2016, and Silver Springs Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI), a provider of innovative grid products, from 2009 to its acquisition by Itron in 2018. Dr. Tyson has also been a board member of the Haas School of Business since 2020, the Philanthropy University since 2019, SeriousFun Children’s Network since 2020, Opportunity Institute since 2016, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation since 2017. Dr Tyson was a member of President Bill Clinton’s cabinet from 1993 to 1996 and was the first woman to serve as Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 1995 and Director of the White House National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996. Dr. Tyson received her B.A. from Smith College and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jane Woodward is a Founder and Managing Partner of M.A.P. Energy. M.A.P. is one of the longest-standing private energy investment fund management firms in the U.S. M.A.P. began investing in natural gas mineral rights in 1987, wind energy in 2004, utility-scale solar in 2015, and energy storage in 2017. In December 2020, M.A.P. sold its renewable energy and energy storage assets under management to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Ms. Woodward is also an adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and has over 30 years of experience developing and teaching energy classes at Stanford University. Ms. Woodward also serves on the Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory Council at Stanford University. Before founding M.A.P. and leading at Stanford, Ms. Woodward worked as an exploration geologist with ARCO Exploration Company and later as a petroleum engineering consultant to Stanford University’s endowment. Ms. Woodward received her B.A. in Geological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Earth Science and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Stem and Star Peak Business Combination Update

Stem remains on track to complete its previously announced merger with Star Peak Energy Transition Corp.  (“Star Peak”) in the first quarter of 2021. Upon closing, the combined company will be named Stem, Inc. and remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the new ticker symbol “STEM.”

About Stem, Inc.

Stem provides solutions that address the challenges of today’s dynamic energy market. By combining advanced energy storage solutions with Athena™, a world-class AI-powered analytics platform, Stem enables customers and partners to optimize energy use by automatically switching between battery power, onsite generation, and grid power. Stem’s solutions help enterprise customers benefit from clean, adaptive energy infrastructure and achieve various goals, including expense reduction, resilience, sustainability, environmental and corporate responsibility, and innovation. Stem also offers full support for solar partners interested in adding storage to standalone, community, or commercial solar projects – both behind and in front of the meter.

Headquartered in Millbrae, Calif., Stem is directly funded by a consortium of leading investors, including Activate Capital, Angeleno Group, BNP Paribas, Constellation Technology Ventures, Copec, Iberdrola (Inversiones Financieras Perseo), G.E. Ventures, Magnesium Capital, Mithril L.P., Mitsui & Co. LTD., Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, R.W.E. Supply & Trading, Temasek and Total Energy Ventures. 

About Star Peak Energy Transition Corp.

Star Peak is a blank check company incorporated in Delaware to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Star Peak is led by a management team with extensive experience investing in the energy, energy infrastructure, and renewables sectors, including Chairman Michael Morgan and Chief Executive Officer Eric Scheyer. Michael Morgan is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Triangle Peak Partners L.P. and currently serves as a director of Sunnova Energy International (NYSE: NOVA) and lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: K.M.I.), one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America, a company he joined at its founding in 1997. Eric Scheyer is a Partner at Magnetar and has served as the Head of the Magnetar Energy and Infrastructure Group since its inception in 2005.