Jared Silvia is CEO and President of BlueDot Photonics, a Seattle-based company working to commercialize next-generation solar technologies. He is responsible for overall operations and business development activities for BlueDot.
Jared joined BlueDot after working in the cleantech sector for Doosan GridTech. While at Doosan, Jared oversaw overall business and product strategy development and helped the newly formed company commercialize solutions for integrating distributed energy resources into the electric grid. Prior to Doosan, Jared worked at McKinsey and Co. where he served companies in the energy and materials sectors on strategy and operation topics. Jared has a PhD in Chemistry from MIT (’11) where his thesis focused on carbon dioxide conversion schemes. Jared earned an MPhil in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar and is a graduate of the University of Washington where he earned a BS in Chemistry and a BS in Biochemistry.