Christina Fernandes is the Chief Operations Officer at Energy Innovation, where she serves as a strategic partner in advancing the organization’s mission through values-driven management and organizational excellence. She provides executive oversight of finance and accounting, human resources, IT and systems, and operations, and executive support. Christina previously served as Energy Innovation’s Chief Financial Officer, and also brings prior leadership experience in business operations within higher education.
Christina earned her MBA from California State University, East Bay, with a concentration in global innovation, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a focus on race and ethnicity, along with a minor in criminology, from the University of San Francisco. She lives in the Bay Area with her family and enjoys spending time outdoors, discovering great food, and exploring new places.