Kelly Yazdani

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyyazdani/

Kelly Yazdani leads customer experience and operations at Voltus, where the company is transforming how distributed energy resources participate in electricity markets while supporting grid reliability. She oversees teams spanning marketing, customer success, field operations, and dispatch operations that manage more than eight GW of distributed energy resources across North America.

At Voltus, Yazdani has built and scaled marketing, inside sales, and sales operations teams while progressively taking on leadership of customer success, field operations, and dispatch operations — expanding from a marketing leadership role to overseeing the customer experience from acquisition through ongoing operations. She is currently conducting a comprehensive customer listening tour across strategic accounts to drive retention and expansion in critical markets.

Yazdani holds a BA in chemistry and environmental studies from Dartmouth College and began her career as an FTR trader at DC Energy, gaining firsthand experience in electricity markets. After roles in analytics and entrepreneurship, she joined Voltus in 2020 to help build the marketing function, eventually taking on broader leadership roles as CMO and now CCO.

She is particularly motivated by challenges at the intersection of technology, operations, and customer value — from helping customers generate revenue from flexible load while supporting grid reliability to building teams that deliver strong outcomes in rapidly evolving industries.

Yazdani lives in Vienna, Virginia, with her family. On Saturdays, she facilitates a “Meaningful Conversations” group that brings together people from diverse backgrounds and faith traditions to explore issues of social importance. Outside of work, she enjoys barre classes and swimming.