ARIC NISSEN
Chief Executive Officer & Director
WITH BAJA CARPORTS SINCE 2024
Aric Nissen has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Baja Carports since 2024. He is an entrepreneur, business builder, and operator with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 brands accelerate growth, improve operations, and create long-term value.
Over his career, Aric has led organizations through growth, innovation, operational improvement, and market expansion. His experience spans strategy, sales, marketing, operations, shareholder communications, mergers and acquisitions, and business transformation.
Prior to joining Baja, Aric held senior leadership roles across a diverse range of industries, including Accenture, Restaurant Technologies, Subway Corporation, and ag-tech pioneer Kalera. At Kalera, he led global sales and marketing initiatives and helped scale the company through its transition to the public markets, supporting pre- and post-IPO growth, commercial expansion, and shareholder engagement efforts. Earlier in his career, he led brand development, product innovation, and advertising for Berkshire Hathaway-owned Dairy Queen, serving as the business leader for the iconic Blizzard® brand—one of the company’s largest and most successful businesses, generating billions of dollars in annual sales across more than 6,000 locations worldwide.
As CEO, Aric is focused on building upon Baja’s long-standing reputation as one of the nation’s leading providers of solar carports, shade structures, covered storage facilities, and parking infrastructure solutions. He is driving operational excellence, customer focus, and scalable growth while strengthening Baja’s position as an industry expert in the design, engineering, and construction of parking and shade infrastructure. At the same time, he is preparing the company for its next phase of growth through integrated solutions that combine steel structures, solar generation, battery storage, EV charging, and intelligent energy management.
Aric is the architect of Baja’s vision, “A World Powered by Parking™,” which reimagines parking assets as more valuable infrastructure that generates and stores energy, supports transportation electrification, strengthens grid resilience, improves customer comfort and convenience, and creates lasting value for businesses, communities, and our nation.
Aric holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Executive MBA from the University of Minnesota and is OSHA 30 Construction Safety certified. He is also the author of the forthcoming book Parked Power, which explores how parking infrastructure can help meet the growing energy demands of an increasingly electrified economy.
Prior to joining Baja, Aric held senior leadership roles across a diverse range of industries, including Accenture, Restaurant Technologies, Subway Corporation, and ag-tech pioneer Kalera. At Kalera, he led global sales and marketing initiatives and helped scale the company through its transition to the public markets, supporting pre- and post-IPO growth, commercial expansion, and shareholder engagement efforts. Earlier in his career, he led brand development, product innovation, and advertising for Berkshire Hathaway-owned Dairy Queen, serving as the business leader for the iconic Blizzard® brand—one of the company’s largest and most successful businesses, generating billions of dollars in annual sales across more than 6,000 locations worldwide.
As CEO, Aric is focused on building upon Baja’s long-standing reputation as one of the nation’s leading providers of solar carports, shade structures, covered storage facilities, and parking infrastructure solutions. He is driving operational excellence, customer focus, and scalable growth while strengthening Baja’s position as an industry expert in the design, engineering, and construction of parking and shade infrastructure. At the same time, he is preparing the company for its next phase of growth through integrated solutions that combine steel structures, solar generation, battery storage, EV charging, and intelligent energy management.
Aric is the architect of Baja’s vision, “A World Powered by Parking™,” which reimagines parking assets as more valuable infrastructure that generates and stores energy, supports transportation electrification, strengthens grid resilience, improves customer comfort and convenience, and creates lasting value for businesses, communities, and our nation.
Aric holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Executive MBA from the University of Minnesota and is OSHA 30 Construction Safety certified. He is also the author of the forthcoming book Parked Power, which explores how parking infrastructure can help meet the growing energy demands of an increasingly electrified economy.
