Jeff Weiss co-founded Distributed Sun in 2009, truCurrent in 2023, and is Executive Chairman of both firms. Distributed Sun develops solar at scale. truCurrent is a mobility and microgrid business helping enterprises create virtual power plants. An early digital media and commerce entrepreneur and investor, Jeff led companies in media licensing, renewable energy, cyber and physical security, intelligence and corporate fraud mitigation, mission preparedness and training, software development, and transformational management.

In addition to Distributed Sun and truCurrent, companies include Picture Network International (sold to Kodak in 1997), CDx (Certificate of Deposit Exchange), Geoffrey’s Malibu, Vista ($100MM network services firm), TSG ($10MM strategic intelligence firm), Verisign, ASAP Ventures (strategy, advisory & angel investing), AVM Financial Group (investment banking) and Strategic Planning Associates. Jeff has served on the Board of software and software services companies.

Jeff’s expertise includes guiding enterprises thru strategic change, including the transition from conventional to renewable power, integrating supply chains to focus on environmental attributes, adopting and investing with environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact, integrating cyber and digital security to organizational structures, and building teams for social impact.

Jeff graduated from Cornell University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeff serves on the Trustee Council of Cornell, is President of Washington Hebrew Congregation, is on the Boards of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Leadership Council, and has held leadership positions with the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Business Executives for National Security (BENS), SEFAC Council for the Solar Energy Industry Association, the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society, The Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise and Commercialization, Shenandoah National Park Trust, and Washington National Opera.