Gia Schneider is the CEO of Natel Energy, which she co-founded with her brother, Abe Schneider. With over 20 years of experience in the energy industry, Schneider leads and operates Natel’s growing portfolio of hardware and software hydro solutions, project development, and river restorations in locations worldwide. Under Schneider’s leadership, Natel also acquired Upstream Tech in 2017, providing enhanced water intelligence through ML, satellite imagery, and data to further support hydropower operations and improve remote watershed monitoring.

Before co-founding Natel, Gia served as a partner at EKO Asset Management Partners and was helped establish the energy trading desk at Credit Suisse. Previous roles include commodity-focused work at both Constellation Energy and Accenture. Schneider was recently selected as a 2022 Grist “Fixer,” an honor given to the top 50 emerging leaders in climate and sustainability and is an Unreasonable Fellowship recipient, an invite-only organization of growth-stage entrepreneurs. Gia currently serves as a board member of the Freshwater Trust and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) National Council.

She received her Chemical Engineering and Economics degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a graduate of the Texas Academy of Math and Sciences (TAMS).