Michael Birk

Senior Director, Development, West

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • ENGIE North America Inc. (6 yrs)
    • Senior Director, Development, West
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

      Lead the team responsible for the development, execution, scaling, and financial success of multi-gigawatt wind, solar, storage and data center solutions across multiple regulated and deregulated markets in North America.

    • Director, Development, California
      Feb 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      Led the team responsible for the development, execution, scaling, and financial success of multi-gigawatt energy storage solutions that provide flexibility services.

    • Manager, Strategy & New Markets
      Jul 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Led Commercial Analytics for hybrid and co-located renewables and energy storage optimization, development, and investment across US regulated and deregulated wholesale electricity markets.

  • Manager, Commercialization at AMS
    2019 - 2020 · 1 yr

    Commercialization, corporate and product strategy, sales engineering in California (CAISO), Texas (ERCOT), and Australian (AEMO) markets. Enabled contracted sales of AMS' AI driven market optimization and digital intelligence platform from $0 to ~$500k Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in <1-year, leading to $18 MUSD acquisition from Fluence. Fluence acquired AMS in 2020, now Fluence Digital.

  • Associate Manager, Global Business Development and Market Entry at Tesla
    2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

    Focused on select strategic projects and first-of-its-kind commercial offerings in New York (NYISO) and New England (ISONE). SolarCity's Grid Engineering Solutions (GridX), acquisition into Tesla Energy.