Kevin Smith:
CLASS OF 1975
Forest View High SchoolClass of 1975
Arlington heights, IL
University of Chicago - BusinessClass of 1986
Chicago, IL
Purdue University - EngineeringClass of 1979
West lafayette, IN
Kevin's Story
Married for 37+ years with three great children (my wife Cheryl is originally from Elmhurst). Currently Chief Executive Officer for Arevon Energy, a large-scale solar energy development company with more than $12 billion of assets in operation across the US .
My family and I spent most of our lives in Chicago area, with 6 years in London. My wife and I have been in California since 2013, but still spend time in Chicago visiting friends and family. My career path has been in energy, with the last 14 years in renewable energy - solar and wind. I've built energy projects in more than a dozen countries on five continents. After living in London, England with my family for 6 years and building international power projects around the world, moved back to the Chicago area (Wilmette) in late 2001 and headed up development for a large scale wind energy company as SVP (Invenergy). Moved to Santa Monica, California and then Malibu while Chief Executive Officer with SolarReserve, LLC from 2008 through 2018. In January 2019 I took on the CEO (Americas) position with Lightsource bp, and after building more than $4 billion of solar projects in the US and Brazil, I took over as CEO of Arevon Energy in August of 2023.
Currently reside in Tiburon (Marin County) in the San Francisco area and all three children are now out ...Expand for more
of college and scattered around the US and Europe (Portland OR, Denver and Frankfurt, Germany) and engaged in interesting careers. I graduated from Purdue University in 1975 with a Mechanical Engineering degree and from the University of Chicago in 1986 with an MBA in Finance. Oldest daughter, Kristine, graduated from University of Southern California majoring in International Relations/Global Business and received her Masters from American University (Washington DC) in Global Environmental Policy, specializing in international water policy. Kristine is married and recently took a role with her company to work on water infrastructure projects in Tanzania!! Middle child (son), Connor, graduated in 2015 from University of Illinois majoring in Urban Planning, and now owns a tap room in Portland, OR called Workers Tap - stop by if you are ever in Portland. Youngest daughter, Jenna, graduated in 2016 from University of Colorado (Boulder), and completed her Masters in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (now working in an ER in Denver). Great crew!!
College: Graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree in 1979; received MBA (Finance) from University of Chicago in 1986. In 2008, I was honored with the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award from Purdue University in 2012.
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