Prior to the Carbon War Room, Jigar Shah served as CEO of SunEdison. SunEdison owns and maintains solar systems on customers' rooftops; customers buy solar power from SunEdison on a quarterly basis.

Before SunEdison, Mr. Shah was the manager for the U.S. Marketing Group at BP Solar. He was focused on helping identify ways for BP Solar to structure its channels and delivery mechanisms to increase its market share of the growing U.S. solar electricity business. Mr. Shah also served as head of U.S. Commercial Sales at BP Solar, and as an analyst within the Business Development Group. Mr. Shah joined BP Solar in 1999.

Prior to 1999, Mr. Shah worked in several other positions in the renewable energy industry, including at Energetics, a federal government consulting group where Mr. Shah was focused on fuel cells and alternative fuels for vehicles; and at Atlantic Orient Corporation, a wind power company in Vermont, where he completed one of the most successful projects in the wind energy at Kotzebue, Alaska. He started at AstroPower (which has since been purchased by GE Solar) as an engineer on the chemical processing line.

Mr. Shah received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a master of business administration in 2000 from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park.