Susan Gladwin is a Senior Consultant at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO), where she is originating a portfolio of projects in the Title 17 Clean Energy Program, with emphasis on virtual power plants. Her career spans several decades of product line management and marketing, business development and sustainability roles across industry and consumer at Autodesk and Apple. She serves as an investor in and advisor to several venture-backed climate tech startups. She holds a B.Sc. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is based in the Bay Area.