Seaport, Boston — Nationwide

Built by the people who built EV charging.

Our founders spent a decade at SolarCity, Tesla, and ChargePoint deploying thousands of EV chargers. They kept watching the same thing happen after every installation: the utility bill arrived and no one had planned for the demand charge. In 2022, they built EVready Energy to fix that.

SolarCity alumni ● Tesla Energy veterans ● ChargePoint directors ● National Grid EV program founders ● ChargePoint Certified Partner ● Tesla Certified Installer ● Sourcewell Cooperative Contract

$185M+

Revenue driven by our founders at ChargePoint alone

$60M+

EV funding secured across 15+ states

$500M+

Pre-construction EV pipeline managed

100+

Years of collective EV charging and clean energy experience

Why we exist

The demand charge kept blindsiding our customers. So we built the solution.

Chris Nihan and Justin Ries spent years inside the companies building the EV charging industry. At ChargePoint, they watched facility after facility—dealerships, fleets, office parks—invest in charging infrastructure and then open a utility bill that had climbed by thousands of dollars. The chargers worked. The economics didn’t.

“Installing chargers is the easy part. The demand charge on your next utility bill is the part nobody warned you about.”

The culprit is the demand charge: a utility fee based on your single highest interval of power draw in a billing period, not on total energy consumed. One DC fast charger can set that peak even when it’s barely used—and that peak can double or triple the electricity costs an operator expected. Traditional EV charging software watches whether the charger is on. No one was watching what it cost.

EVready Energy was founded in 2022 to close that gap. The team that built large-scale charging programs at ChargePoint and Tesla brought the same execution discipline to a company designed around a single insight: the financial success of electrification matters as much as the technical success.

Team alumni of SolarCity Tesla ChargePoint National Grid EVPassport Lucid Motors Northeastern University

The team

The people solving the problem

Deep EV charging expertise across strategy, sales, software, and engineering—built from the inside of the industry’s largest companies.

CEO & Co-Founder

Chris Nihan

              SolarCity
              Tesla Energy
              ChargePoint
            

An energy economics expert with over a decade in clean energy, EV charging, and automotive strategy. Selected as one of the first four retail managers to launch Tesla Energy in the Northeast. At ChargePoint, built the Dealer Strategy Program as Director of Automotive Strategy—growing it to 20 employees and driving $125M+ in revenue within 18 months. Has secured $60M+ in EV funding across 15+ states. Leads company strategy, product, and customer engagement at EVready.

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Justin Ries, President and co-founder of EVready Energy

President & Co-Founder

Justin Ries, LEED AP

SolarCity Tesla ChargePoint LEED AP

Trained architect turned electrification strategist. At Tesla, oversaw 120+ salespeople scaling solar, storage, and EV adoption. At ChargePoint, led the Eastern U.S. sales region to #1 revenue for three consecutive years, then created and led Pre-Construction—building a $500M+ new construction pipeline and tripling specification share in one year. Oversees operations, marketing, and vendor relations at EVready.

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Head of Revenue

John Gilbrook

National Grid ChargePoint EVPassport

Launched National Grid’s first EV programs, then rose to VP of North American Commercial Sales at ChargePoint during a pivotal phase of industry adoption. Most recently SVP of Sales at EVPassport. At EVready, aligns sales and product strategy and leads customer experience across strategic partnerships.

VP of Sales

Mariah Perrino

Tesla ChargePoint Lucid Motors

Part of the 10-person pilot to launch Tesla Energy retail sales. Supported Lucid Motors’ studio openings during the Lucid Air Dream Edition launch. At ChargePoint, served as an Enterprise Account Executive guiding the largest dealer groups from Maine to Virginia through electrification strategy and incentive programs. Primary point of contact for EVready host sites.

Chief Product Officer

Kevin Doyle

ChargePoint 25+ yrs software

25+ years in software engineering and product management. At ChargePoint as Senior Director of Product Management, oversaw driver services, APIs, payment systems, and utility interoperability—critical systems for scaling one of the world’s largest charging networks. Founder of Groksworld Limited. Leads product architecture and roadmap for Energy Guardian at EVready.

Chief Technology Officer

Brian Burke

25+ yrs engineering Cloud / AI / ML

25+ years building and leading scalable software platforms. Has led global engineering teams of 80+ while staying closely engaged in product and execution. Deep expertise in cloud architecture, AI/ML, and full-stack development. Built and scaled platforms from early-stage concept through commercialization on AWS. Leads platform architecture and engineering at EVready.

Head of Finance

Sylvi Nihan

Wolf & Company CyberArk MS Accounting

Brings deep public accounting discipline to EVready’s financial operations. Sylvi spent seven-plus years at Wolf & Company, P.C., a nationally recognized public accounting firm, progressing from Staff Auditor through to Audit Manager. She then served as Accounting Manager at CyberArk, a global cybersecurity company, before joining EVready. Holds a Master of Science in Accounting from UMass Lowell. Oversees budgeting, fiscal processes, and employee relations.

Sales Engineer

Tim Ducharme

Technical Sales Installation Clean Energy

The bridge between EVready’s technical capabilities and customer outcomes. Tim specializes in EV charging systems and pre-sales design, coordinating installations from site planning through commissioning. His background spans the electrical and clean energy sectors—project management, customer success, and installer training—giving him an unusually complete view of what makes a charging deployment actually work in the field.

EVready uses a comprehensive approach to charging and energy usage at each site. They show great care to ensure solutions fit each store and geography, bring deep knowledge of funding and incentives, and their technical expertise across charger types gives us peace of mind. I especially appreciate their honesty in such a fluid industry.

Martin Walsh

VP, Facilities Development

Sonic Automotive

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