“Every 24 hours, enough sunlight touches the Earth to provide the energy for the entire planet for 24 years.” ~Martha MaedaNow more than ever, our planet needs to turn its attention away from fossil fuels towards the development of renewable energy. My name is John Rootes, and I have a passion for the renewable energy and solar sectors. I am deeply committed to contributing to the effort to provide clean energy to this planet.With my 15+ years of leadership in the energy and finance fields, I have a track record of achieving success in this high growth environment. Throughout the course of my career, I’ve developed a skill set that helps me thrive in managing complex, large-scale projects: combining a creative, strategic approach with acute attention to detail, balancing priorities, high-level negotiating, and leveraging strong mathematical and analytical skills. I also pride myself on having a growth mindset and learning new topics, tools, and processes quickly.A large part of my career success is attributed to the teams I lead. My approach is to lead decisively and honesty, innovate relentlessly, put the customer first, and always do the right thing. I lead by example and always have my teammates’ backs. With these pillars in place, I can focus on coordinating and allocating resources, conducting due diligence, and executing projects with multiple stakeholders on tight timelines.In addition to building strong relationships internally, I focus on fostering rapport with external vendors and agencies, communicating openly and aligning everyone towards common goals to contribute to the success of projects.The thing I’m most proud of in my career is:✰ Having been part of a garage shop startup on the cutting edge of meteorological equipment deployment and watching it take off and grow into an industry force over the past 10 years.