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Felix Yoon

Activist · DISC type Cd
Strategy and Venture Building - Energy Transformation at Walmart
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Felix Yoon leads strategy and venture building in energy transformation at Walmart. With a background in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley, he has extensive experience from General Motors, where he was instrumental in launching and scaling the gmEnergy division, focusing on grid decarbonization and zero-emissions solutions.

During his time at university, Felix was an active member of the CalSol UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team and Pioneers in Engineering, demonstrating an early passion for sustainable technology and hands-on engineering projects. He also completed an exchange term at Lund University in Sweden.

Unique fact: Felix began his career at GM as a Design Engineer for moving roof systems before pivoting to found and lead the companys new distributed energy business.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Strategy and Venture Building - Energy Transformation
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Personality Overview

How Felix shows up

Meticulous
Value Conscious
Observative

They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles. They respond well to confident salespeople. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Felix cares about

Energy Transformation
His entire career is focused on improving the grid, decarbonizing energy supplies, and reducing emissions, currently leading these efforts at Walmart after building gmEnergy.
Corporate Venture Building
He specializes in creating and growing new businesses within large corporations, having built GM's residential energy unit from a concept to a fully staffed business.
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Career

Work history

7-2023
Strategy and Venture Building - Energy Transformation
Walmart
5-2022 - 6-2023
Head of Strategy & Policy - gmEnergy
General Motors
7-2021 - 5-2022
Sector Manager - Residential Energy Solutions
General Motors
1-2021 - 7-2021
Innovation Lead - Internal Startups & Project Acceleration
General Motors
11-2019 - 1-2021
Lead Design/Release Engineer, Moving Roof Systems (Body/Exterior DRE)
General Motors
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Education
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Science (BS)
University of California, Berkeley
2016 - 2016
Exchange Term
The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

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