Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization SOGO Energy
Location Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male Also Known As C・ジェフリー・チャー
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Jeffrey Char is a serial entrepreneur and investor focusing on distributed renewable energy. He is Co-founder & Chairman at TRENDE, an online renewable energy retailer accelerating the widespread adoption of solar power in Japan, and Founder and CEO at SOGO Energy, a distributed utility building a platform to serve rural communities in Asia
with affordable, reliable, and clean energy. He is also Founder & CEO at J-Seed Ventures. He co-founded and built several successful ventures including Sozon, an online marketing company sold to ValueCommerce (TSE Mothers: 2491), Solis, a domain registrar sold to GMO Internet (TSE: 9449), SSK Technology, an electronics component company sold to Suzuki Manufacturing, and Pario Software, a network security company sold to Lucent Technologies (NYSE: ALU). Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was a corporate attorney in Silicon Valley and securities research analyst in Tokyo. Jeffrey studied economics at Sophia University in Tokyo and law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law School.



