Season Finale: Live from Climate Week
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Aaron Denman
Partner, Bain & Company
Aaron Denman
Partner, Bain & Company
Aaron Denman leads the Americas Utilities and Renewables practice at Bain & Company. He is also a core member of Bain & Company’s Strategy, Energy and Natural Resources and Performance Improvement practices.
Aaron has led client engagements addressing a range of topics, including corporate strategy, growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, merger integration, performance improvement, organizational design and change management.
Prior to Bain, Aaron spent four years at Eli Lilly & Co in a variety of finance and business development roles, including support of Lilly’s Japan, Canada, Mexico and AMEA operations. In addition, he served as an advisor to the CEO for a clean-energy start-up in Indianapolis, where he helped commercialize Article 1 of a “mobile microgrid” for a US military installation.
Aaron earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in mathematics from Wabash College.
Kingsmill Bond
Senior Principal Energy Strategist, RMI
Kingsmill Bond
Senior Principal Energy Strategist, RMI
Kingsmill Bond is a senior principal in the Strategy Team at RMI. His role is to write research on the energy transition narrative, with a focus on financial market participants.
Kingsmill spent 25 years as a sell-side equity analyst and strategist, writing research for investors such as Blackrock and Fidelity. He worked for Deutsche Bank, Citibank, and Sberbank in London, Hong Kong, and Moscow. He analyzed a wide range of stocks and themes, from the resurgence of Russia to the growth of the internet, from the rise of China to the implications of the US shale boom. About 7 years ago Kingsmill figured out that the energy transition would be the greatest driver of financial markets and geopolitics in our era, and he has been working on it ever since. Kingsmill believes that energy lies at the core of all of our systems, and the shift from fossil fuels to renewables can only be compared with the industrial revolution of 250 years ago, which enabled a 50-fold increase in primary energy demand and shaped the modern world.
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Our Season One finale brings you a debate about the pace of the energy transition that was recorded live at NYC Climate Week three weeks ago. How fast is the transition progressing, really? And why might there be divergent opinions on the subject? The debate was co-moderated by James Lawler and Dina Capiello (RMI), and features RMI’s Kingsmill Bond and Bain’s Aaron Denman.
As we bring Season One to a close, we want to thank all of you, our listeners and newsletter subscribers, for being interested and engaged in understanding climate and energy transition solutions. Thank you also for your countless comments, episode ideas, and guest suggestions.
We look forward to being in touch with all of you again in 2025.
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