Alistair Pim is Vice President, Innovation & Partnerships for NECEC, a non-profit dedicated to making the Northeast the best place to start and grow a cleantech business. He and his team have responsibility for the Cleantech Open accelerator in the northeast, Cleantech Navigate and the Strategic Partner network programs. Prior to NECEC, Alistair was VP of Business Development and Alliances in the Global Smart Cities segment at Schneider-Electric, where he was responsible for developing the partner ecosystem. Alistair has extensive experience in the energy technology industry initiating and developing strategic relationships regionally and globally with IT industry leaders and local government, then building and managing teams to leverage these relationships for mutual business benefit and customer value. Prior to Schneider-Electric Alistair was with start-up SynQor Inc, working as GM European operations, and VP WW Sales.

He has travelled to over 50 countries, and lived in UK, France, Malaysia and now the US.

Alistair serves on the cleantech committee for the MIT Enterprise Forum and served on the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of ASAP (Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals), and is a CSAP (Certified Strategic Alliance Professional). He holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management (UK) and a BS in Engineering Science from the University of Exeter (UK) and lives in Boston.