Brick

Brick is an integrated solutions provider for sustainable infrastructure driven by reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence. We are developing proprietary reinforcement learning and AI agents to automate and optimize the management of facilities to help save energy, cost and decarbonize. We are serving an over 1-trillion-dollar market with initial focuses on buildings, data centers, industrial facilities and hotels.

Sebastian Sheng – CEO
• Ex-CFO & Energy Storage Lead at MGN: Battery storage developer in NYC, responsible for development and a $30M P&L; Ex-head of Wayo China, backed by Neo
• Former renewable energy and infrastructure investment banker at J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley, leading over $5B in M&A and financings
• Energy, AI SaaS & Hardware serial entrepreneur – raised over $40M and one exit in 2016
• Brown University – Master in Science and electrical engineer by trade

Nick Talbott – COO
• Results-driven Director of Business Operations & Strategy with 10+ years of experience driving growth and operational excellence in the technology sector
• Led the development and execution of strategic initiatives for high-growth business units at Fidelity, Kraken, Pinterest and Wells Fargo
• Spearheaded international expansion into 10+ global markets, and implemented cost reduction initiatives with AI-driven automation saving over $1M annually
• MBA (University of Virginia Darden)

Avinash Ranganath – Head of RL/AI
• Optimized resource management with RL models: Enhanced efficiency in data processing, trading, and warehouse operations with applications in sustainability
• Applied RL in strategic simulations and AI-driven automation: Trained agents for optimizing tasks such as international expansion and virtual control, and researched RL and robotics to advance energy-efficient, low-carbon infrastructure solutions
• Ph.D. in Electrical and Automation Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid followed by postdoc research in Deep RL for character control, from Clemson University