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Zaid Ashai

Zaid Ashai

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Nexamp. Also a director at SparkCharge.

ExecutiveDirectorRoles at 2 startups
Updated Nov 10, 2026·Latest SEC filing Apr 17, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Zaid Ashai

Zaid Ashai is a chairman and chief executive officer at Nexamp.

Form D filings also name Zaid Ashai as a director at SparkCharge.

Zaid Ashai first appears on SEC filings in 2016.

Experience

This experience comes from Zaid Ashai's profile and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Zaid Ashai in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Nexamp, Inc. Current
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CEO (2010 – Present)
2010 – Present · Boston, MA
Develops solar projects and offers shared solar subscriptions to homes and businesses.
PJC Current
Venture Partner
2010 – Present
Vote Solar
Board Chair
2019 – 2026
Upside
Board Member
2021 – 2025
SparkCharge, Inc.
Director
2018 – 2025 · Somerville, MA
NECEC
Board Member
2017 – 2020
Solar Energy Industries Association
Board Member
2018 – 2019
Powerhouse Dynamics
Board Member
2013 – 2019
Retroficiency, Inc.
Board Member
2011 – 2015
Power Assure
Board Member
2010 – 2014
MyEnergy
Board Member
2011 – 2013
Kaufmann Fellows Program
Member of Class 13
2008 – 2010
KALPAN HYDRO COMPANY (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED
Board Member
2008 – 2010
3TIER by Vaisala
Board Observer
2008 – 2010
Good Energies
Global Venture Capital Investment Team
2007 – 2010
Point Judith Capital
Summer Associate
2006
McKinsey & Company
Summer Associate
2005
HarbourVest Partners
Associate
2001 – 2003
Credit Suisse
Investment Banking Analyst
2000 – 2001
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Investment Banking Analyst
1999 – 2000

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Zaid Ashai works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Nexamp, Inc. · Form D, Apr 17, 2026
PT
Peter Tawczynski
Chief Financial Officer and director
Kamran Idrees
Kamran Idrees
General Counsel
JM
John Murphy
Chief Strategy Officer
JA
Jun Adachi
Director
CC
Christopher Clark
Executive officer
ST
SparkCharge, Inc. · Form D, Sep 27, 2024
JF
James Floyd
Director
JA
Joshua Aviv
CEO and director
BS
Ben Stoddard
Director
DP
David Piperno
Executive officer

Sources

  1. SECNexamp, Inc. Form D, filed Apr 17, 2026
  2. SECSparkCharge, Inc. Form D, filed Sep 27, 2024