Ramya Swaminathan
Malta Inc
Chief Executive Officer
Ramya Swaminathan led the spin-out of Malta from X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X) in 2018 and has been the company’s CEO since its founding. She has led Malta through multiple rounds of corporate venture funding and has recruited a world-class, multi-disciplinary, global team focused on commercializing Malta’s thermal storage technology.
She sits on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Electricity Advisory Committee, the New England Advisory Committee of National Grid, and the Women’s Energy Network Boston Executive Advisory Committee. She is a DOE Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Initiative Ambassador, a DOC Select Global Women in Tech Mentor, and an Unreasonable Impact Americas Fellow.
Before founding Malta, Ramya was the CEO of Rye Development, which she grew to be the leading developer of new hydropower generation and energy storage projects in the United States. Prior to her work in hydropower, she was a public finance banker, most recently as a Director at UBS where she focused on public power clients and senior managed more than $10 billion in financings. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government and a BA in Anthropology from Amherst College.
