Efficiency First

Officers
	Greg Thomas, Chair Performance Systems Development Ithaca, NY Gregory Thomas is CEO of Performance Systems Development and Performance Systems Contracting. He was a founding board member of Efficiency First and served as a member of the Efficiency First Policy Committee and as Vice Chair before becoming Chair. He was a founding board member of Affordable Comfort Inc. and also served as board chair. He is a member of the RESNET board and a member of the National Home Performance Council Forms Committee. He received the Building Performance Institute Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.
	Matt Golden, Policy Chair/Second Vice-Chair Recurve, Inc. San Francisco, CA Matt Golden is the co-founder and president of Recurve, Inc. (formerly Sustainable Spaces), a leading provider of home energy audits and Home Performance retrofitting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Matt has been recognized by the Building Performance Institute as the first ever recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry. He speaks extensively on building science and integrated green design to such groups as the American Institute of Architects, West Coast Green and Build It Green. He has written numerous articles for Home Energy Magazine and has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Forbes, the New York Times and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Matt currently serves on the boards of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Home Performance Council, the Building Performance Institute, the California Building Performance Contractors Association, Build It Green and the Fine Home Building Magazine Green Building Advisory Board. Matt holds a bachelors degree in foreign relations from Georgetown University.
	Jordan Frugé, Treasurer Standard Renewable Energy Houston, TX Jordan Frugé is senior vice president for business development and co-founder of Standard Renewable Energy, where he has led the strategic development of the company in both the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. Since its start in 2006, SRE has grown to over 300 employees and has offices in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, making it one of the largest distributed energy services companies in the nation. Prior to helping launch SRE, Jordan worked for several Fortune 500 firms in management and logistics positions. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University.
	David Bangs, Secretary Home Performance Washington Seattle, WA David Bangs, a former Microsoft engineer and manager, is a clean energy investor focusing on residential energy services. After investing in home performance companies nationally, David founded Home Performance Washington to bring together service providers and other stakeholders to jumpstart a whole-house energy retrofit industry in his home state. Home Performance Washington is a founding chapter of Efficiency First, which David has been serving as chair of the national Best Practices committee.
Board of Directors
	Brian Bovio Bovio Advanced Comfort & Energy Solutions Sicklerville, NJ Brian J. Bovio is the Operations Manager of his third generation family business, Bovio Advanced Comfort & Energy Solutions. Brian graduated from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 2001 with a BA in economics, and has 15 years of expertise in the HVAC industry. Together Brian and his family, have transformed the company from a traditional heating & air conditioning company to a home performance contracting business focusing on the whole house approach, that also offers weatherization and insulation services to maximize homeowner energy savings. Brian is a BPI Certified Building Analyst/Envelope/Heating/Air Conditioning Professional as well as a NATE Certified Heat Pump Technician.
	Richard Burbank, State & Local Action Chapters Chair Evergreen Home Performance Rockland, ME Richard Riegel Burbank founded Evergreen Home Performance LLC in 2006. The company provides building diagnostics; building performance evaluations; energy audits; and modeling, training and building envelope installation and renovation for residential, multifamily and commercial buildings. As a building analyst and auditor, he has evaluated the full range of home types as well as hospitals, schools and. multifamily buildings. Evergreen’s building envelope projects range from installing cellulose in new construction and retrofits, air leakage reduction in residential and commercial buildings, and moisture mitigation. He is one of the first Building Performance Institute certified Building Analysts and Building Envelope Specialists in Maine, a BPI certification proctor, an ASHRAE member, and an affiliated contractor with Maine Home Performance with ENERGY STAR and ZeroDraft. He is a consultant on building envelope air tightness and testing for ESCOs, architects, and builders. In the fall of 2008, he founded Evergreen Building Science Trainings, a BPI affiliate that offers BPI training and certification testing for Building Analysts and Building Envelope Specialists.
	Lauren Carson CleanEdison New York, NY Lauren Carson is a Partner of CleanEdison, a nationwide leader in Green Jobs Training and Workforce Development. Lauren uses her expertise in sales and building management to develop strategic relationships and manage the sales team nationwide. Lauren has more than five years of expertise in residential real estate acquisitions and property management where she implemented green management practices and energy efficient improvements. Prior to joining CleanEdison, Lauren spent six years at Lehman Brothers where she was vice president of Interest Rate Derivative Sales and a mortgage analyst. Lauren graduated from Trinity University with a BS in Finance and Economics.
	Jonathan Cohen Imagine Energy, LLC. Portland, OR Jonathan Cohen is a principal and chief engineer for Imagine Energy, LLC in Portland, Oregon. He founded the company in 2003 and has established a new market for energy consulting and contracting in the residential and small commercial sector. Jonathan offers knowledge in building science and energy efficiency, solar PV, solar thermal, wind energy, heat pumps (including geothermal), and other energy technologies. Jonathan has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and M.S. studies in the same. He has served as a test engineer at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, CA and the National Wind Technology Center in Boulder, CO. He is an instructor at Oregon institute of Technology's renewable energy engineering program, teaching practical PV design and installation, as well as serving as chair of OIT's Industry Advisory Committee. He helped develop the Home Performance Contractor's Guild, where he acts as a board member, and was instrumental in developing policy for Clean Energy Works Oregon program, the Oregon Solar Energy Code, and permitting of solar installations on standing-seam metal roofs without roof penetrations. He and his wife, Jessie, also own and operate a neighborhood coffee shop, Posies Cafe, in North Portland, where they live.
	Matthew Cooper PEG Environmental Solutions Fairfax, VA Matthew Cooper is the president and CEO of PEG Environmental Solutions, a full-service environmental, engineering and energy consulting firm with its corporate headquarters located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. PEG is in its 12th year of operation, serving the built environment consulting needs of commercial, consumer and residential clients throughout the Mid Atlantic and Northeastern United States..
	Stephen Crouch Johns Manville Denver, CO Stephen Crouch has been the Residential Marketing Manager for Johns Manville since November 2007. In this role, he leads marketing and business development activities for the DIFM side of the new construction and existing home retrofit insulation market. He finds the existing home retrofit portion of his work particularly rewarding, in part because of the complexity and opportunity associated with getting the Home Performance industry off of the ground, and also because of a personal passion for the work of retrofitting homes. He currently represents Johns Manville in the HOME STAR task force for the Council of NAIMA and the Building Insulation Committee for NAIMA. Prior to the reorganization of NAIMA he was also a member of the Building Codes and Existing Homes Subcommittees of NAIMA with Chairman responsibility for the Existing Homes Subcommittee. Prior to working for Johns Manville, he worked for the Appliance Solutions division of Emerson Electric in a variety of roles ranging from finance to business development to marketing and sales.
	Doug Donovan, Best Practices Chair Greener Dawn Inc. Solana Beach, CA Doug Donovan brings a unique combination of entrepreneurial know-how and business fundamentals to Greener Dawn. With a background which includes launching three start-ups ventures, he thrives on the energy of young companies. Doug brings a financial background developed over three years in equity research at investment bank, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now CSFB) and three years as the Chief Financial Officer at Blue Scope, Inc. Doug is also currently a partner at Echo Mountain, a Colorado ski resort which he developed and managed from 2004 to 2008. Doug holds a BA from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
	Rick Gerardi Masco Home Services Daytona Beach, FL Rick Gerardi has over 25 years of management experience implementing innovative strategies for improved energy efficiency and building performance in the nation’s residential sector, while also pioneering creative strategies to address the special energy needs of low-income households. Since February 2009, he has been part of a strong team building a new Home Performance division of the Detroit-based Masco Corporation. As a key member of the Masco Home Services team, Rick is helping the company build a national network to deliver energy efficiency and Home Performance services to American homeowners. Prior to his move to MHS, Rick established and managed the Residential Building Performance Group for Lockheed Martin, and from 1998 to 2007 he established the Residential Energy Affordability Program at NYSERDA, which by 2006 administered more than $70 million per year of public and ratepayer funds for residential and consumer energy efficiency efforts that drove over $250 million per year in work and services. For his work in energy efficiency programs for low-income households and other aspects of energy retrofitting, Rick has been honored with the Rebuild America 2002 Person of the Year award from the DOE, the 2004 Michael Thompson Visionary Leaders award from the EPA, and the Alliance to Save Energy 2005 Unsung Heroes in Energy Efficiency award. In 2008 he was inducted into the BPI Energy Efficiency Hall of Fame.
	Damian Hodkinson True Energy Solutions, Inc. East Rochester, NY Damian Hodkinson has over 20 years experience in the implementation and construction management services, with the last five dedicated to energy efficiency consulting and demand side energy reduction projects. He has expertise in field and theoretical building energy analysis, energy modeling, building diagnostics, and the coordination and management of multi-faceted projects, with thousands of single family, multifamily, commercial, and municipal projects completed. He holds BPI Building Analyst, Envelope, Multifamily Analyst, Heating and A/C or Heat Pump certifications, EPA Lead Safe Worker certification, and he is RRP Lead Certified. He holds a B.S. in Geology from the University of Maryland and has earned a M.Sc. Geosciences (Structural analysis, Geochemical & thermal modeling) from the University of Arizona.
	Mike Rogers GreenHomes America Syracuse, NY Mike Rogers is the Senior Vice President for Market Development with GreenHomes America. GreenHomes improves the comfort, energy efficiency and durability of homes, and is a leading U.S. home performance contractor. Coming from a family contracting background, he has extensive experience in Home Performance retrofitting, from individual homes to the state and federal level. For GreenHomes, Mike has led the creation of business systems across all aspects of the company, guided operations at the incubator locations in New York and New Jersey. For 15 years he has been a frequent presenter at national conferences and meetings in the energy efficiency, green building, and indoor air quality industries. Prior to joining GreenHomes, Mike had an 11-year affiliation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in various full-time and consulting roles. In particular, he was a lead developer and primary supporter of the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program jointly run by the EPA and the Department of Energy. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
	Dan Thomsen, National Membership Chair The Building Doctors Los Angeles, CA Dan Thomsen is the president and founder of The Building Doctors, a Home Performance contracting company that provides building performance testing and energy efficiency retrofitting. Dan is a lifelong environmentalist from the time he was a Boy Scout and achieved the Eagle Scout ranking. Dan received a Bachelor of Science from the College of Agriculture and Forestry at West Virginia University and a Master of Science from the School of Forestry at North Carolina State University. He is a member and trainer with the California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA); he is certified with the Building Performance Institute (BPI) as a Building Analyst Professional; and he is certified through the California Home Energy Efficiency Rating Service (CHEERS) as an existing home rater to prepare the HERS reports required for Energy Efficient Mortgages. Dan is also a certified Green Building Professional with Build It Green, and a founding member and National Membership Chair of Efficiency First. He has completed a course in infrared imaging for home inspectors, energy audits and disaster restoration contractors with the Infrared Training Center, has received a certificate of appreciation from the City of Los Angeles for his volunteer work planting drought-tolerant gardens, and has an active Real Estate license.
	Peter Van Buren TerraLogos Energy Group Baltimore, MD Building on an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and a Masters in Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning, Mr. Van Buren brought his 25 years of experience in sales and customer service to TerraLogos. As President of the company, he focuses on business development and marketing, coordination of the inspection/report/contractor process, and quality assurance of all aspects of work. Trained as a home energy auditor, he has a thorough knowledge of building sciences and the energy-efficiency problems in Maryland.
	Larry Zarker Building Performance Institute Takoma Park, MD Larry Zarker is the chief executive officer of the Building Performance Institute, the professional credentialing organization for both the weatherization and Home Performance contracting industries. He directly oversees BPI’s national expansion of affiliate organizations that deliver training and credentialing services in key markets throughout the country. He is responsible for the development of BPI’s national standards relating to weatherization and Home Performance work, the certification process for weatherization and Home Performance professionals, the accreditation of Home Performance contracting companies, and independent third-party quality assurance covering the work of BPI Accredited companies. Prior to joining BPI, he worked for nearly 20 years with the NAHB Research Center and served as vice president of marketing for more than a decade. In this role, he managed construction of a national demonstration house in 1990 with products made from post-consumer recycled materials, and in 1994 he developed a series of townhouses featuring a building-integrated photovoltaic roof. Throughout his career, he has helped initiate and manage programs in green and sustainable building and remodeling, certification and accreditation programs for the building industry, and advanced technologies including the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) program.
Staff & Advisers
	Jared Asch, National Director San Francisco, CA For more than a decade, Jared Asch has been an entrepreneur, organizer, political adviser and fundraiser dedicated to community responsibility, innovative marketing and business development programs, and progressive environmental and energy policy at the local, state and national levels. Jared has served as a policy consultant for presidential candidates, U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and many Florida legislators, and has prepared grants on behalf of nonprofits and municipalities targeting the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nearly a dozen state agencies. He has appeared as a lecturer with Green Tech Academy, a nonprofit organization providing professionals with expertise in clean technology, and he teaches a course entitled “Politics of Going Green” in the Sustainability and Energy Management program at the University California-Berkeley. Additionally, Jared has earned LEED®AP certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and has hands-on experience in green construction, home retrofitting and residential solar installation. He has a master’s degree in public administration from American University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Florida State University.
	Kara Saul Rinaldi, Government Affairs Consultant Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Washington, DC Kara Rinaldi has more than a dozen years of experience in advocacy strategy development, lobbying and media relations. She has directed national policy, communications and grassroots campaigns leading advocacy efforts with the Administration and Congress on tax, appropriations, authorization and climate change policy for national and international NGOs and corporations. Prior to joining ERM, Kara was the Director of Government and Public Affairs for Owens Corning, a Fortune 500 company that is a leader in insulation technologies. She also held the position of Senior Director of Policy for the Alliance to Save Energy, a bipartisan, nonprofit coalition of prominent business, government, environmental and consumer leaders who promote the efficient use of energy worldwide. Kara also has worked on the Climate Change Campaign for the World Wildlife Fund and in the offices of Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-Calif.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). She holds a masters degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelors from the University of California, San Diego.
	Coby Rudolph Coby's career in politics has been focused on engaging people in the political process. In college he led led various Jewish student groups and recruited Californians to join the campaign for a renewable portfolio standard. Between 2004 and 2006, Coby directed grassroots campaigns in seven states. Since then, Coby has led grassroots work for the Save Darfur Coalition and the Alliance for Climate Protection ("Repower America"). At Efficiency First, Coby spends his time working with existing and prospective members; helping Efficiency First members grow and expand state and regional chapters; and mobilizing members and others in favor of policies that will grow the Hone Performance industry. Coby holds a B.A. in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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