Nancy C. Floyd
Nancy C. Floyd has served as one of our independent directors since March 1, 2021. Ms. Floyd served as a managing director of Nth Power LLC, a venture capital firm she founded that specialized in clean energy technology, from 1993 to 2022.
From 1989 to 1993, Ms. Floyd joined and started the technology practice for the utility consulting firm, Barakat and Chamberlain. From 1985 to 1988, Ms. Floyd was part of the founding team and worked at PacTel Spectrum Services, a provider of network management services that was acquired by IBM. In 1982, Ms. Floyd founded and served as the chief executive officer of NFC Energy Corporation, one of the first wind development companies in the United States, which she successfully sold. From 1977 to 1980, Ms. Floyd served as Director of Special Projects at the Vermont Public Service Board (now known as the Vermont Public Utility Commission).
Ms. Floyd has also served on the boards of 14 private, high-growth, clean tech companies and was chair of the board for four of them. From 2020 to 2023, Ms. Floyd served as a board member, chair of the audit committee, and member of the compensation committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee of Beam Global (Nasdaq: BEEM, BEEMW). She also served as a member of the board and chair of the audit committee of AltaGas Services and AltaGas Power Holdings (U.S.) Inc. (TSX: ALA) from 2018 to 2019, and board member of WGL Holdings, Inc. and Washington Gas (NYSE: WGL) from 2011 to 2018, where she sat on the audit and governance committees. Additionally, Ms. Floyd has served as a fund advisor to Activate Capital from 2018 to 2021 and as a member of the investment committee for The Christensen Fund from 2017 to 2021. Ms. Floyd received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Franklin & Marshall College in 1976 and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from Rutgers University in 1977.
