Jamie Smith

President and Chief Operating Officer, RPower

Jamie has over 20 years’ experience leading high-performance teams including P&L leadership and large complex global sales organizations in power generation and industrial companies. He assumed the role of President and Chief Operating Officer for RPower in June of 2022.

RPower is a power generation company spanning prime, merchant, and backup power generation solutions. RPower specializes in providing backup generation to companies with mission critical loads; with a focus on serving energy intensive businesses, including the Data Center and Oil & Gas segments. The RPower team of analysts and engineers has a proven track record in the electric power industry serving large industrial customers and utilities with power generation project development, asset operations, asset optimization, project financing, and retail energy. RPower is well capitalized and backed by I Squared Capital based in Miami, FL.

Prior to RPower, Jamie was Global Vice President of Business Development for Generac’s Commercial and Industrial business unit. In this capacity Jamie built and scaled a global commercial organization to focus on the rapidly growing distributed generation market opportunity. This includes channel development, new product commercialization and transforming a legacy business model to meet the demands of new market dynamics being created by microgrid and other distributed generation solutions.

Jamie started his career in power generation at General Electric after serving 10 years as an officer in the United States Coast Guard. During his tenure in the Coast Guard, Jamie held several leadership roles, including Commanding Officer of a US Coast Guard Cutter and Associate Director of the Admiral James M. Loy Institute for Leadership at the US Coast Guard Academy.

Jamie received his Bachelor of Science in Operations Research from the United States Coast Guard Academy, a Master of Science in Engineering from Stanford and his MBA from Emory University.