Uplight
Justin Segall is Chief Strategy Officer at Uplight.
The pandemic didn't stop these luminaries from the energy and utilities space from innovating in all types of technologies. Ninety individuals sprang into action, creating new tools or strategies to better serve their colleagues and communities. This year, PUF is celebrating these ninety Under Forties.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What's your typical day like?
Justin Segall: I'm not sure if there is a typical day, which is both fun and crazy. In this pandemic era, we're holding a lot of Zoom meetings back-to-back all day.
I'll give you a flavor of today. We have a Customer Advisory Board, where we have about fifteen chief customer officers, CIOs, from several of our customers that we use as a sounding board for new ideas and for direction for the company. We talk about everything from potential Uplight M&A target to growth and operations.
We're checking with the advisory board to test ideas, get feedback on what the industry needs, and then working with our team on new ideas that we're incubating. They provide feedback about business or regulatory models, and even on bigger strategic aspects in the company.
Our advisory board helped with the formation of Uplight because they were clear they didn't want to deal with multiple point solutions so they help us understand where we need to grow and other acquisitions we should be looking at.