Richard Keiser
CEO & Founder
Common Energy
Richard Keiser is the founder and CEO of Common Energy, one of the country’s largest community solar providers. Common Energy manages over 70 community solar projects around the country, representing over 250MW of clean energy capacity.
Prior to founding Common Energy, Mr. Keiser was a Senior Analyst at Sanford Bernstein in New York, where he led the Technology Strategy group. At Sanford Bernstein, Mr. Keiser analyzed disruptive technologies to understand how new markets would develop, and used this knowledge to help portfolio and hedge fund managers outperform. In 2005, he was awarded the Sanford C. Bernstein Royal Reach Award for outstanding contributions to research.
Mr. Keiser’s analyses have been the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, and in energy publications around the world. He is a graduate of MIT.