Our Team

CJ Ejimuda, MSc

Founder

Quantize Energy's inception was greatly influenced by CJ's experiences from his time as a reservoir engineer at XoM. At XoM, in both front and middle office roles, CJ played a pivotal role in a team responsible for detailed technical and economic evaluations of energy projects, contributing to the approval of projects exceeding $100 million by the investment committee. In 2017, leveraging his extensive background in energy markets and proficiency in big data and AI, CJ developed a structured finance and engineering solution for rapid valuation of energy assets and to support the long-term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects. Recently, CJ held the position of Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) helping build customer solutions and ensuring their technical delivery quality for AWS partners globally. His career also spans a range of positions in startups, from full-stack developer (web and mobile) to data engineer, data scientist, and roboticist, in California and Colorado. CJ has authored several papers on AI and a speaker at major tech conferences focusing on big data and fintech. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Technology Owerri and holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Rob James

Advisor

Rob is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP supporting their San Francisco, CA & Houston, TX offices. For more than 40 years, he has helped clients achieve their goals on complex energy, construction and infrastructure transactions. As a co-leader of Pillsbury’s Energy Transition practice group, Rob’s practice focuses on: energy project development and acquisitions; complex commercial agreements and joint ventures; and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for facilities and infrastructure, including public-private partnerships (PPPs). His work spans sectors, including renewable and conventional power generation, transmission and storage; alternative fuel and oil and gas production, refining and transportation; LNG, hydrogen, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS); chemicals and mining; and public transit, university and health care infrastructure. Rob also counsels on climate change adaptation and sustainability, logistics, international investment protection, fine art acquisition, and ESG and other corporate compliance programs.

Charles Amarikwa, PE

Advisor

Charles is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of California with an impressive career spanning 38 years in electrical power, communication and control systems. His broad expertise covers developing utility-scale renewable and thermal power projects. Moreover, Charles has extensive experience in supervising the construction of these projects, serving as an Engineer of Record (EOR) or Owner's Engineer. His skills further extend to providing specialized consulting and project management, as well as implementing control system applications for commercial and heavy industrial clients.