Cathy Zoi

Cathy Zoi has been Advisor to EQT since 2024.

Cathy has spent her career in the energy and environmental sectors at the nexus between technology, management, and policy. For six years Cathy was CEO of EVgo, the leading publicly traded electric vehicle fast-charging infrastructure company in the US. Prior to EVgo, she co-founded Odyssey Energy Solutions, a software platform serving the minigrid sector, was CEO of Frontier Power, a rural electrification company incubated by SunEdison, and an adjunct professor and Precourt Energy Scholar at Stanford University. Cathy served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary and Acting Under Secretary at the Department of Energy, where she oversaw more than $30 billion in energy investments. Cathy was the founding CEO of both the Alliance for Climate Protection, established and chaired by U.S. Vice President Al Gore; and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority, a $50m fund to commercialize clean energy technologies in New South Wales, Australia.

In addition to her work with EQT and its portfolio companies, Cathy is currently on the boards of ConEd and SPAN.io and is an advisor to APAX’s Global Impact Fund. In the early 1990s, she was Chief of Staff for Environmental Policy in the Clinton White House and she pioneered the Energy Star program while at the US EPA.Cathy has a B.S. in Geology (Honors/Magna cum laude) from Duke University and a M.S. in engineering from Dartmouth.

EQT Board Memberships
Current:
Chairperson of Scale Microgrids