Sam Jaffe is a research analyst at Navigant Research. He has been involved in the energy storage industry for 7 years as an analyst and three years prior to that as an entrepreneur . He is a published author and a frequently requested public speaker. He is about halfway through climbing all the 14ers in Colorado, which would be a lot more impressive if he hadn't saved all the hard ones for last. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and three children.