Matt Grocoff is an Internationally recognized systems-level climate strategist and initiative builder, real estate developer, policy advocate, and thought leader with 20+ years leading coalitions to decarbonize buildings and neighborhood-scale electricity systems. Founder of THRIVE Collaborative and FEW Energy, developer and energy systems designer of Veridian at County Farm—an all-electric, fossil-fuel-free, solar-plus-storage, net-zero energy community with one of the nation’s first Virtual Power Plants. National communicator on net positive water, electrification and grid-interactive buildings; frequent collaborator with regulators, utilities, unions, and mission-aligned philanthropies.

Matt has been recognized for pioneering America’s oldest home to achieve net-zero energy certification (“Mission Zero House”) and for advocating for distributed renewable energy and resilient community food, energy and water infrastructure. Matt’s work has captured international headlines from the New York Times, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Irish Times, Good Morning Croatia, and a featured PBS documentary.

As founder of FEW Nexus, Grocoff hopes to pioneer the integration of Food, Energy, and Water systems directly into the infrastructure of buildings and communities —designing the human-built environment to function as elegantly as a forest ecosystem.