Will Blanchard is the founder and CEO of WattShift, an energy data and software provider enabling cheaper, greener energy for homes across America by optimizing smart energy devices for grid incentive schemes. Will has worked for more than 8 years in the smart home and energy device industry — founding CyberPowered Home to build smart load panels during undergrad, serving as the thermostat and demand response product manager at Alarm.com, and then as a senior PM for energy data at a seed to Series A startup.

Will came to Booth as a member of the full-time class of ’24 to begin working on what has become WattShift.  After competing in NVC his first spring (’23), Will decelerated and is now in the Booth part-time program. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he triple majored in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Economics and Strategy.