• Cleantech & climatetech writer and solo entrepreneur.

• Past solar PV developer, energy business entrepreneur, industry analyst, expert regulatory witness, and product development engineer with more than 45 years of energy industry experience.

• Licensed professional engineer.

• Graduate of MIT (MBA) and UMass/Amherst (BSME).

An Insider’s Perspective

I bring an industry perspective, having built clean energy businesses, consulted to utility and industrial companies, and testified as an expert witness on utility regulations.

Most recently, I founded Cleantech Adoption LLC to help clean tech companies grow their businesses with strategic content, research, and analysis, delivered via webinars and Executive Briefs.

Previous positions:

• Ameresco, Vice President of Solar PV. I founded and led Ameresco’s solar PV project development, installation, and operations business unit, making it the largest solar PV installer in New England, serving municipalities and state agencies.

• Global Insight, IHS (now S&P Global), Managing Director of natural gas economic research. I wrote executive management briefs on natural gas supply and demand forecasts to help business leaders plan near-term investments.

• Sun Microsystems, Director, global utilities and business development. I prepared and delivered presentations to utility executives in the U.S., Australia, France, and the U.K. to help Sun Microsystems’ senior account executives win new business. Prior to Sun Microsystems, I wrote the Sun Boardroom Executive Minutes: Manufacturing & Energy Sectors for Tendo Communications.

• Forrester Research, Senior Analyst, energy and eBusiness strategies for utilities and industrials. I wrote more than 30 analysis reports on energy eBusiness adoption and provided interviews to the national press (Wall Street Journal, New York Times) on the industry projections.

• Cambridge Energy Research Associates (now S&P Global), Senior Associate Consultant. I drafted 20-year scenarios for the future of electric utilities.

• XENERGY, Senior Vice President, Supply Management Services and Total Energy Cost Control Strategies for industrial clients. I negotiated gas and power supply contracts, testified before state Public Utility Commissions, and met with Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners to lower energy costs for glass, steel, lighting, and other industrial clients.

• GTE, Corporate Energy Manager. I reduced the annual energy budgets for GTE’s industrial business units by conducting energy audits of manufacturing plants and recommending energy-efficiency and utility-cost reductions.

• Carrier Corporation, Heat pump product development engineer. I received a patent on Carrier’s new heat pump design.

Volunteering, Education, Licenses

• Volunteering: I co-founded the Ignite Clean Energy Business Plan Competition for the MIT Enterprise Forum, which later merged with the Cleantech Open.

• Education: Graduate from MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst engineering school. At UMass, I was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, an Engineering Honor Society; enrolled in ESIC, a program for Engineering Services to Industry and Community; and was a Physics Commonwealth Scholar.

• Licenses: Professional engineer in Massachusetts.