Jacquie Ashmore

Executive Vice President of Engineering, New Leaf Energy

2023 C3E Social, Economic, & Policy Innovation Award Winner

Jacquie Ashmore is a clean energy and sustainability expert with 15 years of experience in the business, technology, and policy spheres. She is the Executive Vice President of Engineering at New Leaf Energy, where she leads a sixty-person engineering team developing solar, energy storage, and wind projects, serving New Leaf Energy as it grows to develop 1 gigawatt of renewable energy annually. As a member of the four-person executive leadership team, she identifies strategic business priorities and has shaped New Leaf Energy in its first year after spinning off from Borrego in July 2022. She does this by scaling work in existing distributed generation markets and establishing work in new utility-scale and distributed generation markets.

Prior to taking this role, Ashmore co-founded Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, securing research funding from foundations and philanthropic donors and building an interdisciplinary team of senior fellows, faculty, and students from engineering, business, natural science, and public health backgrounds to drive the Institute’s research impact. She also built a research portfolio including integrated water management to support sustainability and affordability, as well as city action to drive equitable climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.

Ashmore is passionate about building an inclusive, equitable, and just clean energy future, and she serves on the boards of three nonprofit organizations with missions to expand the involvement of underrepresented groups in the energy and environment communities: New England Women in Energy and the Environment (NEWIEE), All In Energy, and Browning the Green Space. She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford (UK) and her PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University.