Jackie Firsty

In her current role as Director of the Greentown Labs Investor Program, Jackie Firsty is responsible for managing the flow of connections and capital between a network of investors in Greentown Labs' community and the 200+ member startups who are part of Greentown Labs. As North America's largest climatetech startup incubator, Greentown Labs' provides resources and connections to help climatetech startups thrive - and they have raised almost $5 billion in funding since Greentown's inception in 2011. In her previous experiences in clean energy, as the Director of Project Development at BlueWave Solar, she focused on developing large-scale community solar and dual-use agrivoltaic solar projects in Massachusetts, bringing project concepts through permitting and engineering, while supporting the financing and asset sales. She is a Northeastern alum, graduating with a B.S. in Environmental Science, with minors in Sustainable Business Practices and International Affairs. While at Northeastern, she was VP of the Sustainable Building Organization (NUSBO).