Danny Kennedy

Danny Kennedy is Sungevity's Founder and author of “Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy – and our Planet – from Dirty Energy”. A long-time social entrepreneur, Danny has achieved global recognition as an environmental activist, spokesperson and opinion leader. Before Sungevity, Danny was the Campaigns Manager for Greenpeace Australia Pacific. In 2001, he ran Greenpeace's California Clean Energy Campaign, the success of which helped lead to the current California Solar Initiative. Danny was the founder and first Executive Director of Project Underground in the 90s, and serves on several for- and not-for-profit boards. He has a Bachelor of Science from Macquarie University in Sydney and dropped out of the Law School there. Danny lives in California with his wife Miya Yoshitani and two daughters.