Elizabeth Kaiga

Chief Commercial Officer, DNV, North America

2020 Business Award Winner

Elizabeth Kaiga is currently Chief Commercial Officer at DNV, North America. In this role, she leads commercial activities and manages customer relationships and quality assurance. Her work focuses on providing strategies and solutions to support an equitable global transition to safer, reliable, and sustainable energy. She also chairs DNV’s Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Board. Kaiga is a transformational leader in the energy industry who has, for over two decades, developed and implemented innovative growth and client development strategies for national and global professional service firms.

Prior to joining DNV, Kaiga led business development efforts for the Renewable Energy Practice at CohnReznick LLP. Kaiga held similar positions within the Energy & Utilities Practice at Marsh & McLennan, Arthur Andersen LLP, and ICF Consulting. Kaiga serves on the Board of Directors for Women of Renewable Industries & Sustainable Energy (WRISE), a national nonprofit that promotes the education, professional development, and advancement of women in the renewable energy sector. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Solar Sister, an organization that delivers clean energy solutions to off-grid rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, by leveraging a network of women entrepreneurs. Kaiga is a strong supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion, and has received recognition in that capacity from the YMCA of Greater New York, the Houston Business Journal, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Kaiga holds a Master of Arts Degree in Global Marketing from Emerson College.