Richard Ling

Co-Founder

Washington, District of Columbia, United States8 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

2x founder with one successful exit.
Expertise in renewable energy and sustainability.
Strong background in business development and partnerships.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Renewable Energy and Sustainability expert with strong business development skills.

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About

engineer and 2x founder (1 exit). on a mission to make more than I take.

Experience

Groq

GTM 🚀

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Remote

helping AI startups build on the fastest + most affordable LLM API in the world.

Station a

3 roles

Sr Business Development & Partnerships Manager

Feb 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

helped fortune 500s put lots of solar and batteries on their buildings.

Business Development & Partnerships Manager

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Business Development & Partnerships Associate

Dec 2021 – Nov 2022 · 11 mos

Ceg solutions llc

Business Development & Partnerships Associate

Aug 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Arlington, Virginia, United States

built solar, energy efficiency, and microgrid projects for important people (Navy, Air Force, NREL)

Bioenergy devco

Analyst

Oct 2019 – May 2020 · 7 mos

University of pennsylvania

6 roles

Student Sustainability Coordinator

Sep 2019 – May 2020 · 8 mos

made Penn's campus more sustainable :)

Researcher, Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER)

May 2019 – Sep 2019 · 4 mos

did complicated math on buildings to make them more energy efficient.

Researcher, Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER)

Jan 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

built a magnetic-field energy harvester to power wildfire and air pollution sensors.

Researcher, Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER)

May 2018 – Sep 2018 · 4 mos

made solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and contributed to a fancy patent.

Student Eco-Rep

Sep 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs

created the first zero-waste Penn Relays.

Moelis Access Science Fellow

Sep 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

taught STEM to West Philly students and created a digital makerspace.

Millennium campus network

Campus Director

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos · University of Pennsylvania

first Millennium Fellow at UPenn and founder of the Penn chapter.

Collective cause

Founder

Jun 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

made some progress on the UN SDGs.
raised money from cool orgs like the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Essity North America, the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR), the Penn Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, and The Green Program.