Jennifer Garson Email and Phone Number

Jennifer is a Senior Vice President at Boundary Stone Partners, where she is focused on innovation management consulting and helping companies and places navigate federal funding. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Sustainable Maritime Coalition, which is focused on increasing federal support for maritime innovation and transformation. She is a former government senior executive who spent 15 years at the U.S. Department of Energy, working as a career executive across four Administrations. During her time at DOE, she advanced ways to manage major federal programs, increased efficiency in government through innovative funding mechanisms, and led major initiatives at the agency to develop programs and policies to support technologies, including water and blue economy-focused efforts.She was the Director of the Water Power Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she led the office’s strategy, management, and execution of the $200M office with more than 85 staff and oversaw $150M in additional supplemental funding. She influenced the structure of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, including leading the $1B Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas program, and supported the Grid Deployment Office $800M Hydropower Electric Incentives program.She worked across DOE, the federal government, and in partnership with the private sector to launch and create new programs, prizes, and commercialization approaches for blue economy and cleantech technologies and applications, leading to billions in follow-on funding. The programs she created have helped hundreds of startups in the private sector and at National Laboratories.She was the Chief of Staff for the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the Trump Administration. She was previously a Senior Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions. She was in EERE serving as a program manager, standing up new networks for incubators, and leading business plan competitions. She served as a policy and market analyst in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, developed analysis and provided technical assistance for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability on their smart grid portfolio during the Recovery Act. Jennifer earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies Concentration at Kenyon College and her Master of Public Policy at George Washington University.