Adam is an attorney and experienced executive in the renewable energy and SaaS space, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Ivy Energy, a cleantech platform for billing and data analytics to enable onsite solar generation, electricity storage, EV charging, and other distributed energy resources on multi tenant properties. Ivy helps property owners unlock net operating income while saving their tenants money on clean energy.

Prior to Ivy, Adam was the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Arcadia, a leading utility data analytics and community solar platform. Other prior experience includes serving as SVP, Business & Legal Affairs at Canvas Worldwide, a media agency and, began his career as a corporate associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in NYC, where his practice focused on private equity M&A and leveraged transactions.

Adam earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Fordham University in New York City, where his coursework included a focus on sustainable development, including fellowships at the United Nations Development Programme in New York, and at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. While at Fordham, he was part of a group of US and Ghanaian law students who founded the first clinical legal education in Ghana, where he engaged in fieldwork in Kumasi in collaboration with the Kwame Nkruma University of Science at Technology in the Summer of 2008. In undergrad, he attended University of Oregon, where he obtained his bachelor’s in philosophy with a political science minor.

Prior to law school, Adam was a software developer at a startup that had a successful exit. Having grown up in Silicon Valley, technology, software, and innovation are in his DNA.

Adam is admitted to practice law in NY & CA and is CIPP/US (Privacy) certified.

contact: adam@techlaw.nyc

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