Seth Kiner is a trailblazer of the customer-centric and profitable smarter energy lifestyle, through which he helped build the largest conservation portfolio in North America. His passion is creating a truly sustainable future for the generations to come.

Kiner is a senior executive and compelling leader of organizational change with experience creating impact across all segments of the customer value chain for leading global, national and regional organizations. He has extensive experience with high value initiatives and comfortably sits in the middle of disruption, social change and technology, helping transform market models and drive sustainable growth.

Kiner’s passion for building the practice of Intelligent Sustainability carries through in both his professional work and personal life. As an active member of TreePeople’s board of directors, he is helping to build engagement with leaders locally and internationally to aggressively pursue more sustainable water practices in response to critical drought conditions.

Most recently, Kiner served as Vice President, Customer Programs & Services at Southern California Edison, where he applied his marketing and consumer behavior expertise to connect technology, data and the consumer. He spearheaded efforts designed to help businesses and homeowners adopt a smarter energy lifestyle, with a focus on emerging clean technologies. Kiner also had oversight for the company’s energy efficiency, demand response, and clean self-generation program portfolios; and led customer experience, marketing, ecommerce, new product development and strategic alliances functions. Kiner was responsible for building customer engagement, refining customer service models and achieving key business and product objectives. He pioneered the successful customer-centric introduction of smart meters to the company’s 5 million customers and is credited for transforming the go-to-market approach through the data-driven “next-best-offer” strategy that increased adoption and reduced costs. Additionally, he was a primary driver of the company’s customer strategy that helped improve J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction ratings from the fourth quartile to first.

Previously, Kiner served as Executive Director for KPMG, LLP. He was Vice President of Marketing for United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and held positions at Transamerica Corporation as well as several leading global advertising agencies.

Kiner currently serves on the board of directors for TreePeople and the China-US Energy Efficiency Alliance.