Executive profile: CEO of EnerNOC (Boston)

It was 2005, four years after he co-founded EnerNOC Inc., and Tim Healy was doing some soul-searching about his future with the company.

The Boston-based energy management firm had been growing, and Healy, the company’s CEO, had had a role in hiring all of its employees.

Until No. 67.

“When that 67th person came on board, and I didn’t know that person, and I hadn’t interviewed that person, I said, ‘Wow, this is going to be different,’” Healy recalled.

Healy said he spent a full month reflecting on whether he was the right person to lead EnerNOC through the next stages of growth. Was he comfortable in this sort of environment? Could he put aside his entrepreneurial desires and instead focus on scaling up a company?

Ultimately, he realized he was the only man for the job at the company, which he founded in 2001 with a business school classmate, David Brewster, EnerNOC’s president.

“At the end of that four weeks I said, ‘I’m in, and I’m in for the long haul,’ ” Healy recounted.

EnerNOC’s board of directors, however, had never doubted Healy, said board member T.J. Glauthier.

“There was never any question about whether Tim would stay on as the CEO,” said Glauthier, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy.

EnerNOC would go public in a $99 million IPO in 2007, and has gained the largest share of the nation’s demand-response market — becoming the poster child for the Massachusetts cleantech industry along the way. When a Massachusetts television ad promoting passage of an energy bill hit the air earlier this year, it featured Healy as the spokesperson.

Today, Healy is one of the few local tech company founders who has stayed on with his company after going public.

“Tim is a very strong spokesman both for the company and for the sector,” said Peter Rothstein, president of the New England Clean Energy Council. “He has clearly risen to the challenge of leading a growing public company.”

Read the full story in the Boston Business Journal.