Matineh leads Powerline’s growth, drives commercial and business development, and builds strategic partnerships with some of the world’s largest project developers and utilities.

She specializes in applications of AI for power markets and energy projects. Prior to Powerline, Matineh co-founded and served as CEO of Watt-Learn, an AI software company specializing in utility-scale energy storage optimization. Under her leadership, Watt-Learn achieved a successful acquisition. She served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Map Energy, where she led further development of the technology, which was deployed on some of the first grid-scale batteries in the United States.

Before Watt-Learn, Matineh was Director of Data Science at kWantera, where she pioneered some of the industry’s first AI models for integrating power plants, wind farms, and large-scale loads into the grid. Matineh holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where her research focused on AI solutions for proactive energy system diagnostics.