Larsh Johnson

Larsh Johnson has spent more than two decades working with consumer and industrial companies along with utility providers to improve how power is delivered and consumed. As Chief Technology Officer for Stem, Inc., he leads hardware and software engineering to meet the unique solar/energy/resilience needs of manufacturing companies – including Saint-Gobain, Alsco, Food Service Partners, Kieran Label Corporation, Reliance Metalcenter, Royal Philips Electronics N.V., ShoEi Foods, and more. Prior to joining Stem, as Chief Technology Officer at Siemens Digital Grid, he led the technology development teams on software and hardware products that monitor, automate, and optimize electric power grid operations including solutions that enable energy market operations and the growing penetration of distributed and renewable generation. He joined Siemens via the acquisition of eMeter, a Bay Area software company of which he was a co-founder and responsible for innovation and development of meter data management, analytics and advanced smart grid applications. Prior to eMeter, he co-founded CellNet Data Systems, a pioneer in wireless networks for smart metering and distribution automation and now a unit of Landis+Gyr. Larsh was a founding member of the Department of Energy’s Gridwise Architecture Council (GWAC) and remains a member emeritus. He earned his B.S. and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.