Kirk Hayes is CEO of Brookwood and Director of Mission-Critical Infrastructure at Zero RFI, Brookwood’s parent company.
Kirk leads Brookwood’s expansion into mission-critical and power infrastructure, pairing the firm’s 35 years of owner’s-representative and program-management discipline with his own career building and operating utility-scale power. Across SunEdison, Tesla Energy, FTC Solar and Recurrent Energy, he has led engineering, procurement, project management and construction on a portfolio representing more than $5 billion in capital responsibility and over 4 gigawatts delivered to commercial operation.
Most recently, Kirk ran operations for a hyperscale data-center power district in Nevada, engineering a standardized, repeatable 50 MW power block with Schneider Electric that carried a reliability baseline study through FMEA into locked design decisions. Before that, as Managing Director of EPC at Recurrent Energy, he built the project and construction-management organization and raised $500 million from BlackRock to execute against it, delivering utility-scale solar projects across Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.
Before energy, Kirk spent more than a decade in semiconductor manufacturing at Applied Materials and Lam Research, serving Intel, IBM, TSMC and Samsung, then built the pilot and production lines for a solar-cell manufacturer and was awarded a U.S. patent for a new way to make thin-film photovoltaic cells, now in use by NASA. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, he was the first person McKinsey & Company ever hired without a degree.
Kirk Hayes is CEO of Brookwood and Director of Mission-Critical Infrastructure at Zero RFI, Brookwood’s parent company.
Kirk leads Brookwood’s expansion into mission-critical and power infrastructure, pairing the firm’s 35 years of owner’s-representative and program-management discipline with his own career building and operating utility-scale power. Across SunEdison, Tesla Energy, FTC Solar and Recurrent Energy, he has led engineering, procurement, project management and construction on a portfolio representing more than $5 billion in capital responsibility and over 4 gigawatts delivered to commercial operation.
Most recently, Kirk ran operations for a hyperscale data-center power district in Nevada, engineering a standardized, repeatable 50 MW power block with Schneider Electric that carried a reliability baseline study through FMEA into locked design decisions. Before that, as Managing Director of EPC at Recurrent Energy, he built the project and construction-management organization and raised $500 million from BlackRock to execute against it, delivering utility-scale solar projects across Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.
Before energy, Kirk spent more than a decade in semiconductor manufacturing at Applied Materials and Lam Research, serving Intel, IBM, TSMC and Samsung, then built the pilot and production lines for a solar-cell manufacturer and was awarded a U.S. patent for a new way to make thin-film photovoltaic cells, now in use by NASA. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, he was the first person McKinsey & Company ever hired without a degree.