Jim Davis is Executive Director, Sustainability, Energy & Climate Impact with SAP, the world’s leading business applications software company.  Jim works at SAP Labs in Silicon Valley and provides internal and external thought leadership for SAP’s rapidly growing portfolio of enterprise sustainability solutions.  Jim also directs partnerships, alliances and business development to deliver SAP solutions to organizations of all sizes in private industry and government.  He has recently returned from the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen, where he represented SAP in meetings with senior government officials and business leaders.

Jim has over 28 years experience in environmental, power and energy industry R&D, consulting, and software solutions, beginning with technology transfer for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) research programs in acid rain, emissions trading, competitive energy markets and global climate change.  Following EPRI, Jim was a business development executive with ICF Consulting, delivering environmental and energy strategies to power and gas companies responding to California energy deregulation.  Since 2001, Jim has leveraged his expertise in environment and energy regulation and policy to deliver best in-class software solutions to support environmental performance improvement and sustainable business management.

Jim earned his BS with Distinction in Biology and Earth Sciences and his MS in Environmental Sciences at Stanford University.