Ari Matusiak is co-founder, president and CEO of Rewiring America. He is founder and co-chair of Power Forward Communities, a national coalition awarded $2 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to decarbonize and reinvest in American households. He was founding partner of, and is currently a senior advisor to, PVG, a fast-growing consulting firm committed to driving climate solutions that also deliver real economic value at scale.
Matusiak was previously the co-founder and chair of Young Invincibles, a nonprofit that gave voice to young adults in the health reform debate and helped drive passage of the Affordable Care Act, and was chief strategy officer of Renovate America, a residential energy efficiency and renewable energy financing platform. From 2011 through 2014, he was special assistant to the president and director of private sector engagement in the Obama White House.
Earlier in his career, Matusiak was vice president of strategy and community impact at the Rhode Island Foundation and co-founder and director of HousingWorks RI, a coalition that catalyzed over $1 billion in affordable housing development and thousands of good paying jobs in the Ocean State. He graduated cum laude and as a Public Interest Law Scholar from Georgetown University Law Center, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.