about modern electric

A next-generation
energy company.

Our mission is to protect American prosperity. We do that by delivering you the best products at the best price, So that energy cost inflation doesn't take away money from families. In fact, we do the opposite.

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Why We Started Modern Electric

Modern Electric didn’t start as a “startup idea.” It started as a pattern we couldn’t unsee.

Before energy, I scaled subscription businesses. And that rewired how I think: a subscription isn’t just a price. It’s a relationship. If someone pays every month, they deserve a consistent experience, clear accountability, and a system that actually improves their life over time.

Energy is already the most universal consumer subscription in America. Every household is enrolled. The difference is that families don’t get to choose the experience — and they’re the ones who absorb the volatility. When the system gets more expensive, the energy cost rises — even if your behavior doesn’t change.

That sensitivity to “the monthly” is personal for me. My mom is a first-generation Filipino American, and she taught me what real money attention looks like. She used to bring competitor grocery ads to the checkout line and ask for price matching, not as a stunt, but as a survival skill. It wasn’t about being difficult. It was about dignity: if you work hard, you should be able to keep your life stable.

Then I went boots-on-the-ground in Texas and saw how the status quo lands on real people. I met a homeowner who did everything “right.” She used less energy. She was careful. She tried. And still, her energy cost jumped roughly 25%, not because she became wasteful, but because grid investments and infrastructure upgrades get passed down to customers through a rate increase.

And I’ll never forget the pain in her eyes when she told me she had started asking her children for help with her monthly power bill.

That moment matters because it’s not about blame, it’s about structure.

We don’t think utilities are villains. The grid has to be upgraded. Demand is changing fast. Reliability matters. If utilities didn’t invest, we’d be dealing with more outages — and when the lights go out, people get hurt. The work utilities are doing is necessary.

What’s broken is everything around the consumer experience.

Home electrification today has been reduced to “solar,” sold like a one-time transaction through channels and incentives that weren’t designed for a long-term household financial decision. The technology is real. The delivery model is fractured. Homeowners end up in a maze: salesperson, installer, lender, utility — everyone involved, no one fully accountable.

Information gets scattered across parties. Threads get buried. Approvals get delayed. The homeowner becomes the project manager for something that impacts their family’s finances. It isn’t a people problem. It’s a communications and incentive problem. And, ultimately, it becomes a trust problem.

Modern Electric exists to set a new standard: one relationship, one clear promise, and a system that works quietly in the background.

We’re building an energy membership because energy isn’t a purchase, it’s a household subscription that shows up in kitchen-table decisions. It shapes what families feel safe spending, what they postpone, what they can plan for, and what they can’t. Over time, it can either create breathing room, or steadily take it away.

Our mission is simple: make the essential systems of modern life work for the people who fund them. To protect the stability of the American household, so that when families do the right things, they can actually move forward.

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Chino Lex

Founder & CEO

Chino Lex

Founder & CEO

Chino Lex

Founder & CEO

Leadership Team

Chino Lex

Chino Lex

CEO & Founder

Domain expert consumer technology and subscription businesses built from scaling an app publishing company at the age of 19 to 10M installs, 7-figure ARR, and an exit. Scaled an “online cable bundle" provider to 7-figure ARR. Experience in early-stage technology investing as a Venture Scout and Angel Investor (3x MOIC, 43% IRR). Alum of YC-backed lending startup, creating $300M in demand. Sold solar door-to-door find for customer discovery to understand today’s solar landscape – had a gun pulled on him in the field, underlining the poor customer experience for homeowners today. Chino leads all commercial initiatives including Product, Marketing, M&A, business development, Go-To-Market, and recruiting at Modern Electric.

Chino Lex

Chino Lex

CEO & Founder

Domain expert consumer technology and subscription businesses built from scaling an app publishing company at the age of 19 to 10M installs, 7-figure ARR, and an exit. Scaled an “online cable bundle" provider to 7-figure ARR. Experience in early-stage technology investing as a Venture Scout and Angel Investor (3x MOIC, 43% IRR). Alum of YC-backed lending startup, creating $300M in demand. Sold solar door-to-door find for customer discovery to understand today’s solar landscape – had a gun pulled on him in the field, underlining the poor customer experience for homeowners today. Chino leads all commercial initiatives including Product, Marketing, M&A, business development, Go-To-Market, and recruiting at Modern Electric.

Chino Lex

Chino Lex

CEO & Founder

Domain expert consumer technology and subscription businesses built from scaling an app publishing company at the age of 19 to 10M installs, 7-figure ARR, and an exit. Scaled an “online cable bundle" provider to 7-figure ARR. Experience in early-stage technology investing as a Venture Scout and Angel Investor (3x MOIC, 43% IRR). Alum of YC-backed lending startup, creating $300M in demand. Sold solar door-to-door find for customer discovery to understand today’s solar landscape – had a gun pulled on him in the field, underlining the poor customer experience for homeowners today. Chino leads all commercial initiatives including Product, Marketing, M&A, business development, Go-To-Market, and recruiting at Modern Electric.

Mike Churchill

Mike Churchill

CFO

Previously CFO of PE-backed Dividend Finance, scaling of financial operations from $175M to $3B in solar orginations, before exit to Fifth Third Bank. Mike specializes in financial strategy, executing pioneering transactions, treasury & cash management, PE-backed transactions and exits, accounting, and financial operations.

Mike Churchill

Mike Churchill

CFO

Previously CFO of PE-backed Dividend Finance, scaling of financial operations from $175M to $3B in solar orginations, before exit to Fifth Third Bank. Mike specializes in financial strategy, executing pioneering transactions, treasury & cash management, PE-backed transactions and exits, accounting, and financial operations.

Mike Churchill

Mike Churchill

CFO

Previously CFO of PE-backed Dividend Finance, scaling of financial operations from $175M to $3B in solar orginations, before exit to Fifth Third Bank. Mike specializes in financial strategy, executing pioneering transactions, treasury & cash management, PE-backed transactions and exits, accounting, and financial operations.

Greg Diamiani

Greg Diamiani

VP of Technology

ex-Head of Engineering at 1KOMMA5 (one of the world’s largest home electrification companies, worth over $1B). Cut SaaS deployment times by 350%, scaled teams by 400%, and doubled revenue in a year to over $800M and managed $4M cloud budgets, reduced costs by 25%, and built platforms with 99.99% uptime, handling 450,000 requests per second.

Greg Diamiani

Greg Diamiani

VP of Technology

ex-Head of Engineering at 1KOMMA5 (one of the world’s largest home electrification companies, worth over $1B). Cut SaaS deployment times by 350%, scaled teams by 400%, and doubled revenue in a year to over $800M and managed $4M cloud budgets, reduced costs by 25%, and built platforms with 99.99% uptime, handling 450,000 requests per second.

Greg Diamiani

Greg Diamiani

VP of Technology

ex-Head of Engineering at 1KOMMA5 (one of the world’s largest home electrification companies, worth over $1B). Cut SaaS deployment times by 350%, scaled teams by 400%, and doubled revenue in a year to over $800M and managed $4M cloud budgets, reduced costs by 25%, and built platforms with 99.99% uptime, handling 450,000 requests per second.

Adam Bohe

Adam Bohe

VP of Asset Management & Supply Chain

ex-Head of Asset Management & Supply Chain at the fastest-growing solar installer in the US (#1 in TX ’22, #1 in IL ’24) as employee #2 managing $300M+ P&L, $100m procurement spend, fleet ops, and logistics. Managed 19 warehouses in 19 states with an annual P&L of $150M+. Scaled a customized supply chain solutions company from $14M to $135M+ as employee #4, resulting in an acquisition by a Globaltranz (backed by Providence Equity, $35B AUM). Raised $25M as a CFO.

Adam Bohe

Adam Bohe

VP of Asset Management & Supply Chain

ex-Head of Asset Management & Supply Chain at the fastest-growing solar installer in the US (#1 in TX ’22, #1 in IL ’24) as employee #2 managing $300M+ P&L, $100m procurement spend, fleet ops, and logistics. Managed 19 warehouses in 19 states with an annual P&L of $150M+. Scaled a customized supply chain solutions company from $14M to $135M+ as employee #4, resulting in an acquisition by a Globaltranz (backed by Providence Equity, $35B AUM). Raised $25M as a CFO.

Adam Bohe

Adam Bohe

VP of Asset Management & Supply Chain

ex-Head of Asset Management & Supply Chain at the fastest-growing solar installer in the US (#1 in TX ’22, #1 in IL ’24) as employee #2 managing $300M+ P&L, $100m procurement spend, fleet ops, and logistics. Managed 19 warehouses in 19 states with an annual P&L of $150M+. Scaled a customized supply chain solutions company from $14M to $135M+ as employee #4, resulting in an acquisition by a Globaltranz (backed by Providence Equity, $35B AUM). Raised $25M as a CFO.

Hector Vargas

Hector Vargas

VP of Operations

ex-VP of Operations and People at Bright, the #1 clean energy company in LATAM, backed by Tier 1 US VCs. 12 years in manufacturing and ops, ability to drive KPIs. Led a fully remote team of 70 employees and 50 contractors, successfully deploying 30 MWs of distributed solar. Increased efficiency with a marginal and overhead CapEx savings of $250/kW. Maintained NPS of >45, beating regional benchmark by 40%.

Hector Vargas

Hector Vargas

VP of Operations

ex-VP of Operations and People at Bright, the #1 clean energy company in LATAM, backed by Tier 1 US VCs. 12 years in manufacturing and ops, ability to drive KPIs. Led a fully remote team of 70 employees and 50 contractors, successfully deploying 30 MWs of distributed solar. Increased efficiency with a marginal and overhead CapEx savings of $250/kW. Maintained NPS of >45, beating regional benchmark by 40%.

Hector Vargas

Hector Vargas

VP of Operations

ex-VP of Operations and People at Bright, the #1 clean energy company in LATAM, backed by Tier 1 US VCs. 12 years in manufacturing and ops, ability to drive KPIs. Led a fully remote team of 70 employees and 50 contractors, successfully deploying 30 MWs of distributed solar. Increased efficiency with a marginal and overhead CapEx savings of $250/kW. Maintained NPS of >45, beating regional benchmark by 40%.

Lincoln Payton

Lincoln Payton

Strategic Advisor to the CEO

ex-Head of Energy Investment Banking at BNP Paribas. A senior Finance and Energy/Carbon Executive, with experience in domestic and international corporate finance, principal investing, risk management and leadership roles on 3 continents. Lincoln has a comprehensive background building businesses globally across financial products focused around the Energy Industry, with strong history in the Americas and Europe.

Lincoln Payton

Lincoln Payton

Strategic Advisor to the CEO

ex-Head of Energy Investment Banking at BNP Paribas. A senior Finance and Energy/Carbon Executive, with experience in domestic and international corporate finance, principal investing, risk management and leadership roles on 3 continents. Lincoln has a comprehensive background building businesses globally across financial products focused around the Energy Industry, with strong history in the Americas and Europe.

Lincoln Payton

Lincoln Payton

Strategic Advisor to the CEO

ex-Head of Energy Investment Banking at BNP Paribas. A senior Finance and Energy/Carbon Executive, with experience in domestic and international corporate finance, principal investing, risk management and leadership roles on 3 continents. Lincoln has a comprehensive background building businesses globally across financial products focused around the Energy Industry, with strong history in the Americas and Europe.

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Modern Electric is built to anticipate global energy demand and remove the friction before it starts.

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CA HQ

43 Dore Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco

CA HQ

43 Dore Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco

CA HQ

43 Dore Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

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Austin

TX HQ

701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX 78701

Modern interior space with a blue circular coffee table, flowers in a vase, and books neatly arranged.

Austin

TX HQ

701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX 78701

Modern interior space with a blue circular coffee table, flowers in a vase, and books neatly arranged.

Austin

TX HQ

701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX 78701

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