Amir Orad appointed as Kraken CEO
Amir Orad, newly appointed Kraken CEO. Image courtesy Octopus Energy Group.
Octopus Energy Group has appointed Amir Orad as the dedicated CEO for Kraken, an energy supply platform operating across Europe, the UK, Japan, US, New Zealand and Australia.
Kraken forms part of Octopus Energy Group and is contracted to serve 54 million energy accounts globally through licence agreements with energy companies.
Prior to his appointment with Kraken, Amir Orad garnered over 25 years of experience in scaling global technology businesses, most recently serving as the CEO of New York City-based Sisense, a software company embedding Cloud AI and Analytics, where he grew the company 17x.
Said the incoming Kraken CEO in a release: “Very few companies in the world serve a true purpose of making it a better place. Even fewer do that at scale and can impact hundreds of millions of people.
“Finding that Kraken does exactly that, and is doing so while harnessing the most cutting edge technologies of AI, analytics and the cloud has resulted in an instant match. I’m honoured to join the Kraken team, lead its aggressive momentum and serve our important purpose of leading the world’s energy and utilities transformation.”
Prior to his time with Sisense, Orad served as CEO of Nice Actimize, based in New Jersey, which provided enterprise software to the world’s largest banks and Fortune 500 companies, monitoring trillions of dollars annually.
Orad has also served as technical co-founder and EVP of Cyota, a cyber analytics company, and received his MBA from Columbia University, has a B.Sc in Computer Science and is credited as an inventor on several security and analytics related patents.
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Said Greg Jackson, founder & CEO of Octopus Energy Group: “After a global search, I am delighted to welcome Amir as CEO of Kraken. He has a rare combination of deep technology expertise, experience growing cloud businesses and most importantly, delivering success for clients.
“This appointment will enable Kraken to keep scaling whilst maintaining its unparalleled reputation for successful migrations and rapid innovation as it helps utilities digitise and transform, globally.”
Gavin Patterson, Chairman of Kraken, added: “Amir’s experience leading three data analytics driven companies will accelerate our market leadership further as we keep pushing the boundaries of AI’s role in the energy transformation.”
Kraken clients include Octopus Energy, Severn Trent, Tokyo Gas, Origin Energy, EDF, E.ON, Portsmouth Water Good Energy, Hanwha, Cuckoo, Energy Queensland as well as dozens of large utilities that use its services in flexibility, grid management and more.
