About Us
About Dynamic Grid
The Dynamic Grid team operates like the decentralized grid we’re trying to create – our process for coming up with simple solutions to complex problems is highly collaborative and iterative. Everything that we work on is focused on addressing large-scale real-world problems.
Kay Aikin
Co-founder and CEO
Kay Aikin is the CEO of Dynamic Grid, based in Portland, Maine. She is a systems architect, energy strategist, and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and complex systems innovation. She has spent her career as an energy engineer, architectural designer, and business development executive.
Kay’s cumulative expertise enables her to lead Dynamic Grid in developing software solutions that must reconcile the conflicting demands of business, engineering, technical, and regulatory requirements.
Dynamic Grid builds on foundational research and architecture developed through Introspective Systems, co-founded with the late Dr. Caryl Johnson—a pioneering systems theorist whose work continues to inform approaches to managing complexity at scale. Together, we explored how real-time adaptive systems could enable more equitable, decentralized energy solutions.
Organizations Kay is involved in:
- GridWise Architecture Council
- UN Environmental Programme
- IEEE Power and Energy Society
- Smart Electric Power Alliance
Dr. Caryl Johnson – in Memoriam (1946-2019)
Founder, Chief Innovation Officer
Dr. Caryl Johnson was known for her ability to draw beyond the edges of envelopes that others didn’t realize existed. It’s with this instinct for innovation that Caryl founded Dynamic Grid together with partner Kay Aikin.
Caryl received her Ph.D. in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology, and from there developed research and expertise in a wide range of scientific disciplines, including geophysics, volcanology, mathematics, complex systems, machine learning, ecology, and philosophy.
Caryl passed away in 2019 after her battle with cancer, but her forward thinking and courage to look beyond convention to find solutions to complex problems is what guides Dynamic Grid today, and always.
Keith Lehman
Chief Technical Officer
Keith is a serial entrepreneur with the unique skill to understand both the technology and the business of solving problems. His life’s work sits at the intersection of energy efficiency, IT, energy management and building automation. He has been involved in the development of multiple products that include the deployment of AI-based machine learning and SaaS energy management algorithms and software.
Keith has extensive experience as a systems architect and leading product development teams for multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) energy products, including 17 years in IoT and energy management for companies such as Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) and others. He has a BS in Engineering Science and Mathematics and a BA in Physics from Tufts University.
John Geurin
Chief Sales Officer
John Guerin is an energy sales professional with more than 14 years of experience in renewable energy. His involvement in the development of wind, solar, cogeneration, and electric thermal storage technology projects enables him to bring a unique insight into the business practices and operating structures of renewable projects developers and a robust contact list to Dynamic Grid.
His previous role was as Director of Business Development for Caterpillar, transitioning with his employer Tangent Energy Solutions when it was acquired. John has served in positions with increasing responsibility, including as Regional Sales Manager for Canadian Solar, East Coast Commercial Account Manager for Enphase Energy, and Vice President of Operations and Sales for EOS Ventures.
How We Started
Dynamic Grid started out as Introspective Systems – a collection of innovative thinkers developing simple solutions to complex problems.
Seeing the challenges facing beneficial electricity and the urgency to reduce carbon emissions, we created Dynamic Grid to provide cost-effective and scalable solutions for a more sustainable electric grid.
Where We’re Going
We are committed to contributing to a 100% clean energy future.
We want to see change happen now. That’s why we developed the FlexDR platform and storage to work with existing grid infrastructures and other energy appliances.
How We’re Getting There
Our solutions are guided by simplicity, innovation, and the demand for global change.
We use simple market principles to address the complexity of the distribution grid.
