Brynne Kennedy

Kennedy leads EH Energy as Chairman and CEO, following the 2026 majority buyout investment which she led. Kennedy also leads EH Energy’s US commercial and data center activities.  

Kennedy is also Co-Founder and Partner of American-Swiss energy investment firm Smart Society Capital (SSC) which she co-founded to invest in energy companies with novel solutions to meet growing power demand and grid challenges. Kennedy has handed over SSC operating responsibilities to her Partners. She is a member of the SSC Investment Committee and a Board Director at SSC portfolio company Caban Energy.

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Kennedy previously led US-UK software company Topia as Co-Founder and CEO from 2010-2018, where she led double-digit annual growth rates, international expansion and more than $100M of fundraising. In 2020, Kennedy was the party nominee for US Congress in Northern California where she earned more than 45% of the vote in an exceptionally bi-partisan campaign focused on economic growth and energy transition. Kennedy has been recognized with numerous awards in the US and Europe including the Entrepreneur of the Year honors in the Women of the Future, Women in IT and CloudNOW Awards as well as London Business School’s Distinguished Alumna Award. Kennedy began her career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers.  

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Kennedy has lived and worked across the US, Europe and Asia. She speaks fluent English and French, and broken Mandarin. She is a mother to her 1-year-old daughter Fiia (“Fifi”) and her 9-year-old cavapoo Archibald (“Archie”). In her spare time, she runs marathons, plays tennis, skis, reads fiction literature and enjoys classical music, jazz and theater.  

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Kennedy holds a B.A. from Yale University, where she was a Division 1 gymnast, Ivy League Champion and the recipient of the Thomas W. Ford graduation award, and an MBA from London Business School with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Management. Growing up she was a national elite gymnast for the United States and a State, Regional and National champion.

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