Jonathan Greenberg is a financial journalist and solution-driven entrepreneur specializing in creating disruptive technologies and transformative narratives. He is CEO of EV Everywhere, a breakthrough technology licensing company that is developing the world’s first 5 MWh mobile battery charging station. EVEs will charge battery arrays and heavy duty electric vehicles without the need to access an overburdened transmission grid or expensive charging infrastructure.

A Web 1.0 pioneer, Jonathan started Gist.com in 1996 to provide the first customizable TV listings and content guide. Gist competed successfully with TV Guide Online and was one of 14 companies to win the first ever Webby Award in 1997.

As Gist’s CEO, Greenberg managed a staff of 80 for six years, providing custom TV listings applications in three countries for a dozen of the world’s largest media companies, including Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC.

Greenberg began his career as a fact checker at Forbes magazine, in 1980.  The following year, he became the first reporter to work with Malcolm Forbes to create the Forbes 400 Rich List, as recounted in his Town & Country article,  Forbes’ 100th anniversary issue,  and the definitive biography of Malcolm Forbes. Greenberg also wrote Forbes’ first two major profiles of Black entrepreneurs, and its first articles about the battery and the electronic games industries. His investigative feature articles have since  appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Forbes, The New Republic,  the Huffington Post (where he was a blogger for four years), and Manhattan, Inc. (contributing editor).

Following the September 11, 2021 attack on the World Trade Center, Greenberg was appointed Policy Director for the New York City Council’s Select Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. As the City Council’s lead analyst and policy maker for federal relief programs, he managed public hearings for downtown businesses, non-profits and residents. His work resulted in more than $250 million of federal funds being re-directed to needy businesses and residents closest to the World Trace Center. He was instrumental in winning a reversal of a federal plan to move the U.S. Customs House from its historic home of more than 200 years in Lower Manhattan to Bayonne, New Jersey.

Greenberg started Progressive Source Communications in 2007 to help non-profits and advocacy groups directly build public awareness through people-powered digital media campaigns.  The company recently created a 10-part educational web video series for the California Air Resources Board, and campaigns for organizations like Stonyfield Farm, the ACLU and the Virgin Foundation. Progressive Source owns the SonomaIndependent.org, an award-winning public interest solution focused website.

Progressive Source also owns the SonomaIndependent.org, a 7-year old award-winning public interest solutions and advocacy website. The Sonoma Independent has launched numerous successful grassroots efforts, including the campaigns to Stop All Government Evictions from Safe Affordable Alternative Housing (SAGE), Bury Fire-Causing Power Lines Now! throughout California, and Restore Library Hours in Sonoma County.

Greenberg’s 45 years of professional media and reporting experience has been enhanced by a Yale Law School Masters Degree fellowship program, from which he graduated with honors in First Amendment Law from internationally renowned attorney Floyd Abrams and then Yale University President Benno Schmidt.

Greenberg is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Staking A Claim: Jake Simmons and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty, which a Washington Post Book World front page review called, “a rare biography that challenges the readers senses in the same the way science fiction does.”  In 1992, he edited Buying America Back: Economic Choices for the 1990′s, an anthology of 45 progressive solution-oriented essays called by Publisher’s Weekly,  “An immensely important resource for policymakers, community activists, and everyone concerned with building a more humane future.”

From 2005 through 2006, Greenberg was vice president of Fenton Communications, where he created and managed media outreach, messaging and advertising campaigns for clients, including the two “Save Darfur” rallies in Washington and New York, and Helen Hunt’s “Faith & Feminism” Internet video and ad campaign.

Greenberg is a graduate of New York City’s Stuyvesant High School, where he was a four term student of author Frank McCourt, an experience which both writers recalled in the New York Times Education life years later. He received his B.A. in rhetoric and literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Masters Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School. He is a founding member director, and current co-chair of the board, of the 20-year old Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, which trains young New Yorkers to be effective leaders.

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