Christine Primmer

Senior Advisor

Venture-backed Tech Company Growth Strategy & Corporate Development

Christine Primmer is an investor / operator with diverse expertise helping venture-backed technology organizations build scale and resilience. She’s closely advised, operated and partnered with 20+venture-backed tech companies in energy, transportation, smart buildings and IOT, ranging from Series A to E, helping them grow revenue and scale operations using data driven strategies, partnerships / M&A and capital. Previously Christine founded and led the Strategic Business Development team for Cox, where she partnered with the CSO / VP of M&A to develop and govern $350MM growth portfolio in emerging tech that generated 2.5X in adjacent revenue growth in 4 years. Prior to Cox, Christine worked with Southern Company and Georgia Power to develop and incubate new business ventures, including running a large-scale Smart Cities program with the City of Atlanta, AT&T and GE. Prior to Southern Company, Christine led energy and mobility investment theses at SJF Ventures, a $125MM impact investing fund, following early career experience at GE Energy and Alvarez & Marsal.

  • Growth strategy and corporate development, with a focus on novel, pragmatic strategies and purposeful, collaborative execution

  • Strategic partnerships, specializing in bringing together venture-backed technology companies with large enterprise utility organizations

  • Growth operations, systematically identifying, reviewing and adjusting KPIs / OKRs to effectively execute cross-functional strategic initiatives

  • C-suite stakeholder alignment and influencing, facilitating high stakes decision making amidst competing priorities and convictions

  • Investor relations / private company boards, effectively balancing operational execution with board engagement and communications