Executive Bios
LED Savings Solutions is a national energy reduction company that saves tens of thousands of dollars each month for our clients, with cash flow positive results in the very first month. We have recently established some groundbreaking domestic/international production and financing relationships that reduce up-front costs to $0 for property owners. Our ‘best-of-breed’ approach is simply based on matching the most cost-effective next generation lighting products with the needs of our clients. See Featured Clients. For LED Tubes and multi-tube fixtures, we focus on the EAGLE LED TUBE System by Independence LED Lighting
Our sister company GREENandSAVE, LLC was the first to offer comprehensive Return on Investment (ROI) rankings and Take Action recommendations on multiple ways to ‘Go Green' in order to save money for both residential and commercial energy initiatives. The four years of research, beginning in 2003, culminated with the groundbreaking online offering to the public in 2007. The lighting division, LED Savings Solutions, has clients that come from a diverse range of industries including: Commercial, Retail, Education, Industrial, Hospitality, and Health Care. The scope of the projects ranges from several thousand square foot properties to properties that are over a million square feet. When it comes to performance results, the proof is in the cost reduction. See this sample CASE STUDY with our clients pre and post retrofit Utility Bills.
IN THE NEWS: See recent article on LED Saving Solutions, the parent company, GREENandSAVE LLC, and the founder Charlie Szoradi. Click here.
LED Saving Solutions LEADERSHIP TEAM
Our team of Architects, Lighting Professionals, Certified Energy Auditors, LEED Accredited Professionals, Mechanical Engineers, Researchers and MBAs focus on performance and matching the best-of-breed lighting products to our clients needs.
CHAIRMAN & CEO - Charles Szoradi
Charlie Szoradi brings multiple decades of hands on experience to the culture of sustainable living and cost-savings for property design and remodeling. He focuses on ‘high performance’ architecture, and in the early 90s he wrote his Masters of Architecture thesis on sustainable design, entitled ‘Eco-Humanism’. Charlie is a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - Accredited Professional), a Certified Building Performance Institute (BPI) Energy Auditor, and he has taken an eco-leadership role at the national and regional level. In 2009, Charlie was elected to the Board of the Sustainable Business Network and selected as a member of the Green Economy Task Force, with direct participation on the Capitol Hill Delegation. He is also the founder and President of GREENandSAVE, the sister company of LED Saving Solutions, which was chosen as one of the finalists of the Sustainability Awards. He serves as the Chief Instructor of the company’s Eco Academy. From the cover profile of Inventors Digest Magazine to the Energy Expert for US Magazine, Charlie has simply dedicated his career to green innovation.
Charlie was inspired by the potential of making environmentally sensitive architecture accessible to mainstream Americans. Rather than just defaulting to techniques from 1970s technology and aesthetics, he created a platform to produce active/passive integrated systems. The design solutions focus on function, style, significant cost-savings, and environmental sustainability. Charlie encourages the adaptive re-use of existing structures and materials, all while maintaining an overall aesthetic that appeals to the traditional as well as contemporary aesthetics. Charlie, his wife Cynthia, and their son have recently completed the transformation of a formerly in-efficient 1950s residence that they were able to ‘re-use’ and transform rather than tear down. The home focuses on saving money as well as the environment, and it is one of the most energy efficient homes in America.
Charlie is a sought-after leader and speaker on adaptive re-use and sustainable design with appearances at a diverse range of leading institutions such as the Green Building Council, Brain Reserve Think Tank, and the Wharton Business School. He has served multiple years as the Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts, where he has created programs such as Urbitec, which focus on innovative product design through recycling and re-use. He has also been featured in a documentary film that received the Director's Award at the Black Mariah Film Festival. The film specifically profiles his vision and follows the process of adaptive re-use in converting a massive 22,000 square foot abandoned church complex into a mixed-use residential and commercial property. Charlie has also served as a consultant to the Philadelphia Office of Recycling across many years. He created the education kiosk program and the website as the cornerstone of the interactive marketing initiative.
1993 and 1994 were benchmark years that 'seeded' the growth of GREENandSAVE. In 1993, the company's founder, Charlie Szoradi completed his Masters Thesis on ‘Eco Humanism’ and secured US Patent #5,215,490 on the Building block set of tenon engaging edge connecting members. The thesis set the stage for the groundbreaking new approach to energy efficient and environmentally sustainable architecture, and the invention set the stage for the development of a new generation of Educational Building Construction Sets, High Performance Concrete as well as Structural Insulated Panels that are used today for wall as well as roof construction - now referred to as SIPS.
In 1994, Charlie conceived and produced a pilot Eco-Culture/Recycling show “Fix the Hut” . The show was the culmination of over twenty-five interview segments shot across the country over a two-year period. The show focused specifically on people that had created innovative habitats, furniture, fashion, and lifestyles related to adaptive re-use and environmental sustainability. This interest in communicating through eco-education programs, speaking engagements, and media has coincided with Charlie’s ongoing work in architecture and real estate development. Charlie has purchased over 200,000 sq. ft. of urban space that he has had a hand in converting from ‘left for ruin’ factories, warehouses, and schools into mixed-use residential and commercial property. Transforming neighborhoods and salvaging urban landscape has been an integral part of overall sustainability in his career.
Charlie’s early inspiration to focus on sustainability came at the end of the 1970s when he sat at a young age in a gas line with his Dad during the gas crisis. His father, who is also an architect, introduced him to colleagues that were then pioneering active and passive solar powered houses. He learned that Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, and Charlie teamed up with two friends at St. Albans School for Boys and proceeded to build ‘Omega – The Boat of the Future’ and subsequently won the Grade School Science Fair Popular Prize with the solar powered ship. Years later, major influences have also included working in Northern California’s bay area, working in Japan for the celebrated eco-architect Kenya Maruyama, living in Eastern Europe hubs like Budapest and Prague, and rural villages and Amish communities that rely almost exclusively on sustainable living practices.
Over his academic and professional career, Charlie has traveled extensively throughout Asia, Africa, Central and North America, and Central and Eastern Europe, where he has studied specifically how people build cost-effective and environmentally sensitive homes and communities. Charlie grew up in Washington, DC and graduated from St. Albans School for Boys. He then earned his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia and went on to earn a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Charlie is a registered architect and currently lives in Greater Philadelphia with his wife and son in their self-sustaining home that inspired the development of ‘GREENandSAVE ’.
IN THE NEWS: CISCO Systems recently selected GREENandSAVE's Founder and President, Charlie Szoradi, for their One Million Acts of Green. See the video profiles: Small Acts, Big Rewards and The Most Energy Efficient Home.
PRESIDENT - Robert Driscoll
Robert Driscoll has over two decades of experience in finance and private equity, as well as specific management experience as the President of a manufacturing company. Prior to working with Independence LED Lighting, Mr. Driscoll was a Managing Principal at Striker Partners, based in Suburban Philadelphia. He joined Striker in January of 2002, and his primary responsibilities included sourcing, structuring, negotiating and closing transactions, as well as evaluating operating performance, coordinating financial and legal due diligence, and reviewing transaction agreements for Striker’s investments. Prior to joining Striker, Mr. Driscoll ran Mellon Ventures’ Philadelphia office. Before Mellon Ventures, Mr. Driscoll was President & CEO of Star Anchors & Fasteners, where he directed its successful turnaround in bankruptcy. Prior to Star, he was a Principal at DSP, a private equity group focused on leverage buyouts of firms emerging from bankruptcy. Prior to DSP, Mr. Driscoll was with the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group where he focused on strategic and implementation issues, and operational turnarounds for troubled companies. Before business school, he completed the First National Bank of Boston’s credit training program and worked in the Restructuring Division. Mr. Driscoll also worked in the firm’s High Technology Division where he structured and serviced loans to companies in a variety of technology industries. Mr. Driscoll has been a Guest Lecturer for the Finance Department at the Wharton School, and he is the former treasurer and board member of the Philadelphia Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).
In addition to his current participation on several non-profit boards, Mr. Driscoll is a current or former Director of Touchstone Wireless, LaserGrade, LP, AimNet Solutions, Burlington Motor Carriers, Business Express Airlines, InterLine Brands, New Orchids Paper Products, Quality Veneer & Lumber, Inc., RealWinWin, Inc., and Tekni-Plex, Inc.
Mr. Driscoll earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Vermont and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in suburban Philadelphia with his wife, son and daughters.
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER - Jerry Frazee
Jerry Frazee has over thirty years of extensive and diversified domestic and international business experience. He has logged over 2.5 Million miles of international travel to date, much of which has been for establishing offices and manufacturing plants throughout Asia in Hong Kong, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Korea. This perspective is invaluable to Independence LED Lighting, given the purchase of certain LED components from Asia, and especially given the recent shift from its LED linear ‘Tube’ manufacturing in China to its current US based operations.
Mr. Frazee brings a wealth of innovation, and leads the Company’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), overall Quality Assurance (QA) and Engineering Research and Development (R&D) teams. Over his career, he has managed and directed over 23 product design and launches valued at up to $125 million from concept through distribution. He has also managed and directed the Greenfield construction of multiple manufacturing factories both in the US and internationally, and pioneered strategic initiatives to facilitate double-digit operating cost reductions for over 16 products.
Mr. Frazee also understands, first hand, the challenges of high growth companies. He is an experienced entrepreneur who has successfully been a senior founding executive participant in six successful start-up companies resulting in one technology sale and two IPO:Dataspeed, Inc. and Interactive Network, Inc, based out of Silicon Valley companies.He had a pivotal role in positioning the two pre-IPO companies for annual revenue growth exceeding 45% , and negotiated, structured and secured investments at 10 times initial market valuation. Mr. Frazee also successfully founded International Manufacturing Specialists, Inc (IMS) and International Sourcing Specialists, Inc. (ISS). In his executive positions, he has successfully expanded operations and markets internationally for several companies across his career, most notably, leading the team to move AT&T's telephone manufacturing business to the Far East.Over the course of his career he has also worked as both a Program Manager in the Electronics Division and a Cost Engineer/Operations Manager for MATTEL, Inc. Prior to that, he worked for MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Corporation as an Industrial Engineer. The combination of start-up experience coupled with work for major US Corporations gives, Mr. Frazee added perspective to help drive Independence LED Lighting forward in the growing LED global marketplace.
Mr. Frazee served in the US ARMY after earning his Science Degree in Industrial Technology from Long Beach College. His education also includes an Executive Bachelor/MBA Program, Pepperdine University with Continued MBA senior status course work at Pepperdine University.
DIRECTOR of FINANCE - Gretchen Yankanich
Gretchen Yankanich has over two decades of experience in finance and management consulting. Over the course of her career, she has worked as a CFO and also provided Consulting for Group Instruction and Training and CPE Credit Instruction.Mrs. Yankanich has experience in a range of business sectors from Consumer Goods to Business Equipment, from Health Care Medical Equipment to Industrial Metal Fabrication, from Small Tools & Accessories to Environment Consultants, and from Mortgage Investment to Real Estate Development. This breadth of experience is key for Independence LED Lighting as it relates to the company’s LED equipment manufacturing and role in optimizing operating costs within the Real Estate sector.
From to 2009, Mrs. Yankanich served as the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller for IVY WALLS MANAGEMENT CO., LLC, & MARSH VIEW ASSOCIATES, Inc., the Berwyn, PA based Holding Companies in focused on Service, Technology, Finance, Materials. She was the executive managing $100M+ in private equity business assets, resulting in a 65% increase in overall earnings during her tenure.Her work included serving as the lead advisor/negotiator on M&A activity and financial due diligence. She provided strategic analysis and tax planning strategies, and directed and reengineered the finance process, controls, and policies. She reported on risk management strategies at corporate and business asset levels. She also developed revenue, margin and cash management strategies, managed corporate, treasury, tax matters and the inter-company allocations. Mrs. Yankanich administered $11M in corporate bonds & other debt instruments. She directed all capital and operating budgets for regulatory and external audits. Mrs. Yankanich also prepared the consolidated financial statements, routine internal audits, and provided leadership to 6 senior managers, 4 direct reports and indirect oversight of 80 employees.
Prior to working with IVY WALLS, Mrs. Yankanich was the Chief Financial Officer and Controller for HUMAN CAPITAL SOLUTIONS, LLC, a West Chester, PA based technology company. She was the also the CFO at JOBNET.COM, INC. , and prior to her roles as CFO, she worked as an Accountant and Tax Preparer for BRANDYWINE OUTFITTERS, MCFADDEN & CO., CPA’s, and KERRIGAN, ROWAN & JOHNS, based out of Exton and West Chester, PA.
Mrs. Yankanich earned her BS in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and also holds a BA in Film Production.
Sean Darras, Chief Engineer
Sean Darras brings to LED Saving Solutions the best combination of mathematical rigor from his engineering background and big picture insight from his professional certifications in environmental design and energy auditing. Sean’s ability to effectively research and communicate Return on Investment initiatives has earned him opportunities ranging from ‘Strategies in Light’ Conference participation to speaking engagements at the ‘Go Green’ Expo.
Sean runs point on sourcing, testing, and reviewing products and their specifications. He also oversees LED Saving Solutions’ measurement and verification services. Simply, when it comes to sub-metering on site at client properties, Sean manages the sourcing and installation of the right hardware for the right applications. On the control front, as an example, Sean works with clients and third party testing laboratories to ensure that for high performance lighting clients, the dimming, occupancy sensor, and light harvesting hardware and software work seamlessly with LED lighting retrofits.
Following a great interest in the new Green Economy, Sean joined GREENandSAVE, the sister company of LED Saving Solutions, in April of 2009 after successfully completing the Certified Home Efficiency Consulting program along with the RESNET Certified Energy Auditor program. Sean has gone on to earn LEED AP status (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - Accredited Professional). As a skilled craftsman and a mechanical engineer, Sean brings a deep understanding of the unique requirements necessary to differentiate a building project from a Green building project. At LED Saving Solutions Sean focuses on the Company’s high performance lighting, manages third party product testing, supports the Eco Academy as a trainer in the LED Boot Camps, and Sean also oversees the monthly updates the Company's groundbreaking Savings Report software.
While obtaining his Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of Delaware, Sean held positions with a missile defense company and a sustainable real estate developer. After graduation, Sean worked as a full-time Project Engineer at SUNOCO one of Philadelphia's largest energy companies, where he was routinely responsible for the successful execution of multi-million dollar projects.
Christopher McMeekin, Chief of Inventory Control
Chris McMeekin brings progressive approaches to the distribution and inventory process. Chris specifically works with the company’s Account Managers and Channel Partners on the inventory, purchase orders, material-handling, and high-performance demonstration and sales kits for the Company's outside Lead Providers, Channel Partners, and Authorized Distributors. Prior to his promotion to Chief of Inventory Control, Chris worked for LED Savings Solutions as an Account Manager, where he learned firsthand the need to have a streamlined process with rigorous inventory control systems. With connections in the Health Care field, Chris is also helping to reduce the operating costs of hospitals via LED lighting. Specifically, his work on the LED retrofit of a Structured Parking facility at one hospital, helped reduce the electricity cost of operating the lights by more than 50%. Overall, Chris is not only dedicated to creating efficiencies in operations and helping the environment, but also committed to providing clients money saving solutions for their businesses. Chris has lived in the Philadelphia area for twenty years and currently lives in Bryn Mawr, PA on the western Main Line of the city. He attended the Episcopal Academy for fourteen years and earned his undergraduate degree from Hampden-Sydney College.
Carrie Kaltwasser, Director NYC Tri-State Office
Carrie Kaltwasser brings to LED Saving Solutions an outstanding combination of sustainability and business acumen. Prior to joining the LED team, she ran Evergreen Office Interiors (EOI). EOI looked first to the reuse and reconfiguration of office furnishings, and then followed up with a wide range of furniture offerings designed for sustainable life. Evergreen Office Interiors was based on a commitment to be good stewards of the environment—preserving natural resources and choosing recycling and waste reduction practices whenever possible. Since 1983, Carrie has been involved in all aspects of furniture. This includes Sales, Sales Administration and Supervision, Project Management, Installation Management and, Furniture Management. This depth of experience specifically with commercial office clients gives Carrie the ability to add tremendous value to LED Saving Solutions’ clients specifically when it comes to operating cost reduction through the company’s high performance lighting division LED Savings Solutions.
Carrie understands and anticipates the issues involving the coordination process from the point of sale to the final phase of the order. On the lighting front, she works with clients to manage all aspects of the purchasing process. This includes, preparing detailed proposals and Saving Reports, verifying the correctness of an order and specifications, reviewing the manufacturer’s acknowledgements and resolving discrepancies, execute changes and amend purchase orders, coordinate shipments/deliveries between the factory, warehouse, installer and the end user.
Carrie has also brought her management skills to LED Saving Solutions. During her tenure with the largest Steelcase dealership in Detroit, she supervised a department with fifteen sales administrators. Carrie wrote the company’s first procedure manual and trained all sales employees (account executives, customer service representatives, and project managers) in the systems and procedures. Prior to joining LED Saving Solutions, Carrie also worked as a department manager for a Knoll dealership. Her department was responsible for the competitive bidding process for large projects, and this skill set directly applies to the LED Saving Solutions initiatives. The logistics of any energy efficient installation demands a rigorous attention to detail, and Carrie has also worked for a local (union) installation company. She gained practical knowledge and expertise to understand the details for a successful installation. This included working with various trades, project-specific site conditions, construction delays and conflict resolution. Carrie was the Contract Administrator for GE Aerospace with sites nationwide. From her company’s headquarters they evaluated reuse, refurbishment and redeployment of excess products to sites throughout the country. Given the increasing pace and complexity of the American Energy Revolution, Carrie’s multiple decades of experience…simply give our clients a key advantage in operating cost reduction.
Key Members of the NYC team include:
Senior Account Manager - Kim Curts
Energy Analyst - John Lalley
Showcase on Sector Leadership
The following sample profiles demonstrating the range of background and skills in our Sector Leaders.
Pete Musser- Surface Parking and Underground Parking
Growing up in California, Pete has always been environmentally-minded. Initially working directly with the Company’s Green News Department as a reporter for green business trends, Pete quickly ascended the ranks to become one of the Company’s leading Energy Consultants. Pete now acts as Director of Parking, managing a diverse team of Account Managers, Channel Partners and Lead Providers. Additionally, Pete actively supports the ongoing LED representative education for LED Saving Solutions through the creation of informative documentation and online training webinars.
Pete’s fresh perspective and insight adds value across the organization in the rapidly changing energy reduction marketplace. Pete’s leadership experience ranges from serving as the General Portfolio Manager of the Peggotty Investment Club to founding and organizing a sustainable beach-recycling program for the East Beach Association in Rhode Island, which ran for three years under his watch. Given that LED Saving Solutions sees American Energy Independence as a team sport, we also applaud Pete’s legacy of team work with four years of Varsity Lacrosse in Division 3 NCAA, while earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Connecticut College.
Steve Marshall- Office, Institutional, and Multi-Family
Steve Marshall has spent his career finding solutions to complex problems related to real estate and sustainability. He previously practiced law at Kaplin, Stewart, a nationally recognized real estate law firm, where he specialized in land use and environmental law. Steve transitioned to the ownership side where he was both Director of Real Estate Development and Director of Acquisitions and Leasing for BioMed Realty Trust (BMR). BMR is a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE- BMR) providing real estate to the life sciences industry through a portfolio of over 11M square feet of lab/office space.. His accomplishments while at BMR include acquisition, development and leasing of the state of the art Center for Life Science Boston (CLSB), a 700,000 square foot, 18 story research facility adjacent to Harvard Medical School. At the time of its completion (2009), CLSB was believed to be the largest LEED Gold certified building of its kind in the world. Steve heads up LSS efforts in the office, multi-family, hospitality and institutional sectors. Steve has lectured extensively on real estate entitlement and transactional issues. He holds a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the Temple University School of Law. He is a licensed attorney in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and a Pennsylvania licensed real estate broker.
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT and SUPPORT
We have in-house Account Managers as well as Energy Auditors, Channel Partners, and Research Associates across 26 states and growing. With over 180 trained LED Energy Analysts from 2009 and 2010 and over 120 Channel Partners, we are pleased to share an example of their diverse background and experience.
Michael Wischnia, Account Manager
Michael Wischnia is an Energy Consultant with extensive experience in Account Management, Technology and Sales. At LED Saving Solutions, Michael focuses on servicing Commercial and Institutional accounts. He earned his MBA from Temple University, and over the course of his career, he has Co-Owned an Electrical Contracting Business and worked at Hay Associates in the Business Strategy Group. The combination of his business background and lighting experience position him very well for his work within LED Saving Solutions.
Michael also has a profound understanding of Business to Business Technology and Sales. For more than twenty years, Michael worked in Telecommunications as an Account Executive for AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya and several Avaya Business Partners selling complex hardware and software solutions. Michael is dedicated to customer service and works diligently to help customers reduce energy consumption with realistic paybacks for their investments. Outside of the office, Michael is an avid tennis player and string musician, and he has coached both baseball and basketball.
Nakita Johnson, East Coast Research and Trend Reports
Given the dynamically changing nature of the new Green Economy, LED Saving Solutions is committed to constantly monitoring the trends in product development, service tactics for energy savings, and socio-political national and international legislation and trends. Our research and daily news content is so well respected that in 2009 GREENandSAVE was selected by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) to serve as their Strategic Partner to provide news and Return on Investment Data to support the ‘Green Designees’ and their Green Resource Council. NAR currently serves over one million real estate agents and brokers, so this outreach is part of changing the inertia within such a key industry of property influencers. In 2009 GREENandSAVE was also approved as one of only three ‘Green’ trusted feed content providers for Google News, which reaches tens of thousands of reporters and millions of individuals across the US and the world. Staying on top of the evolving green industry and serving as an eye-in-the-sky is core to our mission. The research and news benefits the visitors to GREENandSAVE.com, the property owners that are served through Home Efficiency Checkups and Commercial Energy and Lighting Audits, and the Consultants that are trained though our Eco Academy.
Nakita Johnson brings an architect and preservationist perspective to GREENandSAVE and LED Saving Solutions. Nakita grew up in Northern Virginia and has seen firsthand the devastating effects suburban sprawl can have on the environment. She is a firm believer that it is possible to integrate green technologies into historic structures without damaging the historic integrity of a building. Before she started her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Nakita became a LEED Accredited Professional and assisted in the design of a 20th century Georgian Revival mansion to receive a Gold LEED rating.
While at the University of Pennsylvania Nakita worked to blend all of her interests together. She received a Masters in Architecture, Masters of Science in Historic Preservation, and a certificate in Ecological Architecture. While traveling abroad in various European countries she saw the possibilities for a more sustainable way of living. Nakita has also completed GREENandSAVE’s Eco Academy training programs for Home Efficiency Consulting and the LED Saving Solutions Boot Camp on commercial lighting. The combination of her education, training, and field work provides the key perspective in this dynamically changing eco-energy economy. For article submissions on new products, services, trends, or people that are saving money and the planet, please Click Here.
Jake de Grazia, West Coast Research and Trend Reports
Jake de Grazia is based out of Southern California, and he brings key west coast and global perspective and industry insight to LED Saving Solutions. Jake grew up in Chadds Ford, PA, and his grass roots connection to the ‘green economy’ dates back to his childhood summers selling tomatoes and raspberries at SIW Vegetables, his uncle's roadside stand. Years later, he graduated from Brown University, where he studied a lot of literature, economics, and creative writing but majored in Eastern Religion.
Jake spent the four years following his undergraduate studies abroad. First he went to tropical northeastern Australia, working on an organic mangosteen orchard and teaching snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. Then he went to China, where he studied Chinese, translated, interpreted, worked with microfinance institutions, and became addicted to the internet while working for the founders of a dot com startup project.
At the end of 2007, he returned to the United States to develop a consumer education tool called The Carrot Project, which compares brands on their relative social and environmental responsibility. The project's goal is to help create an economy in which people buy the things they buy from businesses that they actively choose to support. Jake has also worked with companies like Acorn Energy, a venture capital firm that invests in energy infrastructure technologies, and this work has given him the breadth of insight starting back in his childhood with ‘local’ produce sales to the new American Energy Revolution.