James Ehrlich

James Ehrlich has recently been appointed a faculty position at Singularity University, and is the Founder of ReGen Villages, a Stanford University spin-off company creating the “Tesla of Ecovillages.”

James Ehrlich is the Founder of ReGen Villages, a spin-off company inspired in part by Stanford research during the Solar Decathlon, and a UN Sustainability Brief co-authored by James Ehrlich, Professor Larry Leifer, Chris Ford (AIA) from the Stanford Center for Design Research on the future of tech-integrated real estate development in the built environment that power and feed self-reliant families.

James Ehrlich is also a Senior Technologist at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at Opus Novum consortium at NASA Ames and an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab.

James successfully founded and managed technology and media companies with successful exits. For nearly a decade, Mr. Ehrlich executive produced an award-winning national public broadcasting series based on case studies of organic and bio-dynamic family farms, that at its apex reached over 35-million homes each week, and is also the co-author of a best-selling companion book on Hachette, Organic Living THG (2007).

James spent 14-years filming case study research on organic and bio-dynamic family farms and produced an award winning national PBS TV series.

As a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over 25 years, primarily in the video game and entertainment technology area, James designed worlds that made sense. James became a Senior Technologist at Stanford University in 2012 and the first Entrepreneur in Residence at the Stanford Center for Design Research in 2016. He is also a Senior Fellow at Opus Novum at NASA Ames, and in 2016 was appointed to a White House / U.S. State Department Joint Task Force on the Nexus of Food, Water, Energy and Waste.