Electric Vehicles and Starting ChargePoint

Rotarian Richard Lowenthal is the founder of ChargePoint, the world’s largest electrical vehicle charging network, with over 20,000 charging stations installed.

Richard retired from the company in 2014. He was the CEO of the company from 2007 to 2011 and remains on the ChargePoint board of directors. Previously, Richard was in executive roles at Cisco, StrataCom, Stardent Computers, and Convergent Technologies. Richard is also a former Mayor of Cupertino and has been heavily involved in the non-profit world. He has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley and holds over 30 technology patents.  He has two daughters and lives in Cupertino with his wife of 37 years, Ellen.

Richard is a former Cupertino Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year and was awarded the Character Award by the Santa Clara County Boy Scouts.  He has been President of Cupertino Rotary, Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation, West Valley Community Services, The Fremont Union High Schools Foundation, the Silicon Valley YMCA and the Santa Clara County Library system.

Currently Richard is helping others start-up companies, including Enlytics and Green Charge Networks.