Leon-Gerard Vandenberg AI-First Renewable Energy and Digital Grid Executive Preferred campaign email: lgv@sunified.ai Sunified email: LG@Sunified.com Profile: https://lgv.sunified.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leongvandenberg/ X: https://x.com/Leon_Vandenberg Calendar: https://calendly.com/lgv Executive positioning: AI-first CEO/CTO and founder-operator with 29+ years building trusted edge infrastructure across wireless, embedded security, SIM/eSIM, industrial IoT, fintech, and cloud-connected platforms. The last 8 years have focused on renewable-energy platforms, solar and storage asset intelligence, secure panel-level telemetry, VPP logic, and grid-grade data infrastructure. Current campaign focus: Senior executive mandates where digital grid modernization, renewable integration, secure edge-to-cloud telemetry, AI-power infrastructure, and operational ownership meet. Proof pillars: - Digital Grid: grid data, DER/VPP logic, secure telemetry, utility-scale platform thinking. - Renewables: 8 years in solar, storage, energy provenance, financeability, and asset intelligence. - Trusted Edge: wireless, SIM/eSIM, embedded security, industrial IoT, hardware-rooted identity. - Executive AI: gBrain-style memory, Codex/Hermes workflows, campaign and product harnesses. Recent renewable energy leadership: Chief Executive Officer / Chief Technology Officer Sunified Group BV / Sunified Technologies BV 2020 - Present Netherlands / Global - Leads Sunified's clean energy data infrastructure and hardware trust platform, turning solar and storage assets into secure, high-fidelity data nodes. - Developed the UNITY / Edge ID thesis: secure panel-level telemetry, source data provenance, and edge-to-cloud services for renewable asset intelligence. - Advanced the Solar Operations Oceania 255 MW distributed solar park / VPP model: 51 x 5 MW solar parks connected to Australia's National Energy Market with storage and dispatch logic. - Frames renewable assets as financeable digital infrastructure: measurable at source, more insurable, more bankable, and more operationally useful to grid stakeholders. - Operates as an AI-first executive using durable memory, agent harnesses, structured research workflows, and automation to compound strategy, outreach, and execution. Chief Technology Officer / Core Technology Founder Solara Group 2016 - 2020 Australia / Global - Built the predecessor renewable-energy data platform around secure hardware modules, proof of green energy production, and energy provenance. - Connected solar hardware, energy data, blockchain-era provenance concepts, and financeability into the thesis that solar farms become high-fidelity energy data centers. - Led technical narrative across solar IoT, energy data, investor communication, and platform architecture. Siemens Energy alignment: - Digital grid and renewable platforms: direct fit for cloud-native grid data, renewable integration, operational analytics, and secure asset intelligence. - Wireless and edge integration: deep history in WiFi, EAP-SIM, secure M2M, SIM/eSIM, industrial IoT, and embedded identity systems. - Board-level translation: able to communicate from engineering and architecture through investor, partner, and executive committees. - Operational ownership: founder/CEO/CTO roles across Europe, North America, Australia, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley; comfortable with ambiguous, high-visibility mandates. Trusted edge lineage: - 1996-2001, Newcom / Funge, VP Technology / CTO: Virtual SIM, embedded Java, secure mobile payments, early secure edge identity. - 2001, AirWave Wireless, CTO: Silicon Valley WiFi infrastructure, 802.1X / EAP-SIM, Microsoft/Cisco/Intel ecosystem. - 2001-2004, Imbros / Bozca, CTO / Executive Team: Secure mobile services, mPOS, EMV, payment gateways, virtual SIM patterns. - 2005-2008, TDA Tech, CEO / COO / CTO: Trusted Digital Authentication, secure wireless M2M, TOSIM lineage, China manufacturing/R&D. - 2014-2022, Fuzo, Founder / CTO: SIM/eSIM, HD wallet, financial inclusion, secure identity and value transfer at the mobile edge. - 2016-2026, Solara / Sunified, CTO / CEO: Renewable energy data, secure solar telemetry, storage/VPP logic, trusted asset intelligence. Selected earlier executive roles: Chief Technical Officer Rights Commerce Ltd / Rights Holdings 2009 - 2020 UK / HK / Global - Developed rights-based digital carbon, virtual goods, provenance, DRM/ODRL, ePedigree, and early carbon-credit/property-rights concepts that inform Sunified's energy-data thesis. - Led strategic analysis, go-to-market thinking, IP strategy, and early-stage technology commercialization across energy, digital assets, and secure transaction systems. Founder / Managing Director GET IT Systems 1998 - 2022 Australia / Global - Private innovation and invention-management vehicle spanning wireless security, systems design, digital asset management, patent strategy, and category-creating technology commercialization. Education: - M.B.A., Wilfrid Laurier University: export trade, marketing, entrepreneurship, innovation commercialization, funding processes. - B.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo: Julien M. Christensen Award for best undergraduate paper; entrepreneurial design recognition. - Scale Up Program, Blockchain & AI, Creative Destruction Lab / Rotman ecosystem: Toronto chapter that sharpened the solar data, AI, and scale-up thesis. Executive keywords: Digital grid modernization; renewable integration; solar asset intelligence; secure edge telemetry; industrial IoT; SIM/eSIM; embedded security; storage/VPP; AI/ML dispatch; grid-grade data; energy provenance; platform strategy; partner ecosystems; board and investor communication; AI-first executive operating systems.