SJ Maxted serves as the CoS/COO for Deloitte's public sector sustainability, climate and equity. As a Principal at ADL Ventures, she focused on energy venture development. Maxted also helped run the Task Force on the Work of the Future for the President of MIT and served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at MIT鈥檚 spin-out The Engine, a venture capital fund focused on advanced tough tech, breakthrough technology. She directed and scaled the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program across 40+ global regions to develop their regional innovation ecosystems.听
Maxted served in President Obama鈥檚 Administration at the United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) as Special Assistant to Secretary Dr. Steven Chu and was detailed to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to manage a tech transfer and commercialization portfolio. Earlier in her career, she also worked for former MA-Senator John Kerry under his Senior Advisor for Energy. She sits on the advisory boards for several sustainability focused accelerators like Chain Reaction Innovation, Forge Mass, Exponential Impact and has served organizations like Greentown Labs and LA Cleantech Incubator. She graduated from Duke University with continued coursework at Harvard, and is from Durango, Colorado. She is a currently a Colorado Governor鈥檚 Fellow and Colorado Cleantech Industries Association Fellow.