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Seth Baruch is National Director for Energy and Utilities at Kaiser Permanente and is responsible for managing sustainable energy programs across the organization, including solar projects at a hundred different hospitals, data centers and medical office buildings. Part of this program includes the development of microgrids and rapid installation of electric vehicle charging stations across the Kaiser Permanente portfolio. Baruch is also helping lead the effort for Kaiser Permanente to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020. He has spent his career developing clean energy projects and programs. He led a multi-million dollar initiative at the Washington, DC-based Alliance to Save Energy to improve energy efficiency in the Former Soviet Union. He later founded his own company, QualityTons, that designed projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. QT helped clients around the world lower emissions and generate carbon offset credits, which were sold in the international carbon markets. QT was eventually acquired by Climate Change Capital, a large UK-based investment fund that financed clean energy projects. At CCC, Baruch managed project origination and executed the company's first project in the United States.