Jim is President and Co-Founder of Invenergy—the world’s largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of energy solutions. Invenergy has developed more than 200 projects, with a combined capacity of over 33 gigawatts, across 34 U.S. states and four continents.
With expertise in technology, finance, and project execution, Invenergy develops and builds complex energy and infrastructure projects - across solar, wind, natural gas, transmission, and storage, and continues to explore emerging technologies.
Since its founding in 2001, under Jim’s leadership, Invenergy has funded its growth exclusively through private investment and has raised over $65 billion of corporate and project financing in the capital markets. Over his four-decade career, Murphy has managed multiple organizations – from start-ups, to growth and to liquidity events.
Murphy serves as Chairman of the Board at Illuminate USA, an Invenergy company and one of the largest and most advanced solar manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Murphy is also a member of the Investment Committee for Energize Capital, Invenergy’s venture and growth capital funds manager, and serves on the Board of Reactivate LLC, Invenergy’s distributed generation development platform. Murphy drives pragmatic energy policies that impact the industry and has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Wind Energy Association, American Council on Renewable Energy, and American Clean Power Association (ACP), and was the inaugural chair of the ACP Board.
In 2024, Murphy was appointed Chair of the Board of ACP’s Clean Power Institute (CPI), whose mission is to promote education about the clean energy industry and to build and train its workforce.
Before Invenergy, Murphy served as the Chief Financial Officer at SkyGen Energy LLC, Vice President at The Deerpath Group, Inc., and manager at Arthur Andersen.
Murphy holds a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, and a CPA certification from the University of Illinois.
