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6th percentile
Multi-board director at Duke Energy, NXP, and Oshkosh now chairing LayerZero
Credibility
Operator · 4th percentile
- Wikidata entity exists for Annette Clayton, confirming her as a notable public business executive.
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wikidata entity exists for Annette Clayton, confirming her as a notable public business executive.
What you likely need
You'd get the most value from Festival events that put you in the room with energy-transition founders who need board-level strategic guidance and corporate introductions you're uniquely positioned to make. High-signal roundtables with hyperscaler infrastructure operators and AI data center builders would directly accelerate LayerZero's partnership pipeline. Intimate dinners with other multi-seat board directors would help you pressure-test your portfolio balance and formalize your emerging angel practice.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA dinner with infrastructure leads from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud on mission-critical power reliability and data center uptime, where you can position LayerZero Power Systems as the go-to solution for AI infrastructure operators
- introsA roundtable connecting energy-transition founders with corporate strategy and venture arms at Duke Energy and NXP Semiconductors, where you facilitate warm introductions as the connective tissue between both sides
- positioningA dinner with 6-8 energy journalists, LinkedIn top-voice operators, and CERAWeek/GridEdge program directors to sharpen your decarbonization narrative and surface keynote and byline opportunities for 2025
- tacticalA structured office hours session with 4-5 growth-stage supply chain decarbonization founders who need a Schneider Electric and Dell-credentialed operator to stress-test their go-to-market and partnership strategies
- fundraisingA dinner with 8-10 operators-turned-angels who have formalized energy-transition or industrial-tech angel practices, to help you structure your own diligence process, deal flow sourcing, and check-size strategy
- wellbeingAn intimate roundtable with other executives holding four or more concurrent public board seats to share frameworks for allocating attention, avoiding conflicts, and deciding when to rotate off a seat
- positioningA happy hour with past CERAWeek and GridEdge keynote speakers and program chairs to get a candid read on how to land a mainstage slot and what decarbonization angles are most in demand for 2025 and 2026
- introsA roundtable with founders building at the intersection of AI infrastructure and energy — power management, grid software, thermal systems — where your LayerZero chairperson role and Duke Energy board seat make you the highest-value person in the room