Luke Ackerknecht is CEO and Co-Founder of Alpha Grid, an AI-powered software platform accelerating the deployment of EV charging and energy storage infrastructure across the United States.

Raised in upstate New York with a deep passion for climate science, Luke studied at Cornell University and Georgia Institute of Technology before building a career at the intersection of AI and energy.

Luke led product and machine learning at Google X and Nest, where he pioneered AI-based solutions spanning grid mapping, load forecasting, and counter-terrorism detection.

Luke co-founded Alpha Grid alongside Phil Stahlfeld to tackle the soaring soft costs threatening the clean energy transition, securing $2.5M in initial funding led by Asymmetric and Twine Ventures, with total funding reaching $5.1M.

Alpha Grid's intelligent platform ingests billions of data points across power system models, real estate, and transportation telemetry, helping operators unlock 25% more revenue while streamlining EV charging deployment at scale.