As founder and CEO of The Arcticom Group, Jim leads the organization’s mission to provide the highest-quality customer experience for the design, installation, and maintenance of refrigeration and HVAC systems. He is especially attuned to serving customers that have mission-critical needs, and ensuring continuous and optimized performance.
A purpose-driven leader with a history of success in both private equity/venture capital and public company environments, Jim excels at building high-performing, customer-centric teams through transparency and open communication that deliver lasting impact. His achievements include delivering substantial growth and profitability across complex multi-channel markets, from early stage start-ups to large, mature industrial brands.
Jim’s passion for the mechanical services sector grew from his time as an area general manager with Johnson Controls and later as the leader of North American distribution for Trane Commercial Systems/Hussmann. His diverse leadership experience includes serving as the industrial division president of Filtration Group Corp, the world’s fastest growing filtration company, president of the residential and industrial divisions of SunPower Corporation, and CEO of the landmark Silicon Valley-based grid scale energy storage start-up, EnerVault.
Jim began his career in military and commercial aerospace markets with Bearing Inspection Incorporated and AlliedSignal Aerospace. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Jim and his family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
