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Staffing is aligned to serve the Foundation’s overwhelming emphasis on climate change and energy policies. Ted Smith guides the Foundation’s strategy and funding as it commits its resources to climate mitigation and adaptation activities. Rob Pratt takes the lead on energy efficiency policy and implementation efforts, John Nordgren covers carbon capture and storage in forested landscapes, Amy Panek handles the movement-building portfolio. Policy issues associated with energy – biofuels, renewable energy, labor force growth, carbon markets and offsets, climate adaptation strategies, and power generation, etc. – are handled collaboratively. Consultants Foy and Dayton have ongoing roles as expert advisors and provide critical support for our energy efficiency program area. Peterson has responsibility for measuring the Foundation’s carbon footprint and sharing this model as a resource for other organizations.
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Senior Vice President
rpratt@kendall.org
Rob formerly served as Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s Renewable Energy Trust, the $250 million fund through which he developed a series of innovative programs designed to promote the use of clean energy technologies and build investment in the state’s renewable energy industry. Prior to directing the Trust, Rob was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Energia Global International, Ltd. (EGI), one of the leading renewable energy companies in Latin America. Founded in 1991, EGI (now Enel Latin America) became a major development company in the region, with hydroelectric, wind and distribution assets in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Chile. EGI’s Tierras Morenas wind project was the largest wind farm in Latin America when it was developed and constructed in Costa Rica in 1998.
Rob is Chairman of the board of the International Institute for Energy Conservation, Treasurer of the board of the Alliance to Save Energy, Chairman Emeritus of the American Council On Renewable Energy, and serves on the boards of the Clean Energy States Alliance, the Cambridge Energy Alliance and the New England Clean Energy Council. He received an MPA degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.
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Director of Finance and Administration
ghollister@kendall.org
Gerry is native to Massachusetts following several generations of New Englanders. He began his professional life as an engineer having graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in electrical engineering and then moved into manufacturing management armed with an M.B.A. from Boston College. After 20 years, Gerry decided a career change was in order and joined the nonprofit world as an accountant working for the Kendall Whaling Museum. Gerry resides in Sharon, Massachusetts with his wife Sheila and children.
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Controller/Grant Administrator
bodonnell@kendall.org
Bob comes to the Kendall Foundation with a career history in accounting, from a bank’s director of internal auditing, to time at a CPA firm and other bookkeeping and accounting positions. He holds a BA degree from Western New England College. Coming to work is a short commute as Bob and his wife, Noor live in Boston, close to his two grown sons living in South Boston. While he likes the city life he also has a passion for the outdoors; last fall he and his wife climbed Mount Washington. He is excited about joining the Kendall Foundation and contributing to its mission.
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Program Officer
jnordgren@kendall.org
John directs the Kendall Foundation’s Climate Change Policy program, which focuses on the role of forests as a climate change mitigation tool, as well as on climate change adaptation science and strategies. John joined the Kendall Foundation in 2005 with responsibility for the Northern Appalachians Landscape Conservation Program. He graduated with a B.A. in political science from The American University in Washington, and holds a M.A. in public policy from Tufts University, where his studies focused on natural resource economics and management. Sandwiched in between academics, John flirted with a legal career and worked in the Legislative Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. His interest in the intersection of science and environmental policy led him to the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences where he directed the conservation science programs from 2000-04. John has written on a range of topics, including water resources management, bridging the science/policy gap, landscape conservation strategy, federal public lands management, and road ecology. His professional affiliations include the Society for Conservation Biology’s Social Science Working Group and the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity Working Groups on Land and Freshwater Conservation and Conservation Science. He is a member of the Steering Committees for the Maine Environmental Funders Network, the Federal Forests and Climate Working Group, and an advisor to the Board of 2C1Forest. John lives in Sandwich, Massachusetts with his wife Stacey and their two children.
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Program Officer
apanek@kendall.org
Amy’s formative interest in the environment began with a science fair project in the 5th grade when exploring Oneida Lake’s (in Upstate New York) ecosystem and humans’ effect on it. Through the years, she has continued to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex interaction of humans with their surrounding environment and her range of living and traveling experiences have informed her academic and career goals as well as her commitment to reducing her own environmental footprint. Amy graduated from St. Lawrence University with a B.A. in Environmental Studies/Sociology and from Tufts University with a M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy. She previously worked for the Senate Post Audit & Oversight Committee at the Massachusetts State House, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s Renewable Energy Trust and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in Boston, Massachusetts. Amy happily lives car-free in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Dave Dayton
Consultant
Dave Dayton is President of Clean Energy Solutions, Inc., a consulting services company offering energy efficiency, engineering, and financing expertise to small businesses, non-profit and government organizations. In 1982 he founded Select Energy Services, Inc. (SESI; formerly HEC Inc.) and served as chairman until its acquisition by Northeast Utilities in 1990. As Founder and Director from 1990 until his retirement in 2002, Dave led the company's acquisition program and its development of new energy services in new markets. SESI recommended and installed (and often financed) over a billion dollars worth of energy-efficiency improvements in some of the country's leading institutional, government, and commercial facilities. Dave served as President of Energía Global International Ltd., for two years and on its Board for ten years, leading up to its acquisition by ENEL, the world’s largest publicly-traded electric utility. In 1968, Mr. Dayton founded the non-profit Technical Development Corporation (TDC) of Boston, and served as its President until 1982. During that period, TDC performed many innovative projects in energy conservation, criminal justice and job creation, and set up a number of other corporations in its fields of interest. Dave has also been the chairman or president of many public policy, health, cultural, and community organizations in Massachusetts, and has received several appointments by past governors to advisory boards and state councils. He currently serves on the board of the Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, MA. He served several years on the Executive Committee of the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol. He was appointed to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Renewable Industry Support Advisory Committee in 2002 and was subsequently engaged as a senior consultant to the Renewable Energy Trust. Mr. Dayton has spoken and published widely on energy efficiency and was on the Energy Task Force of the President’s Commission on Environmental Quality. He served 2 years as President of the National Association of Energy Service Companies, and is considered by many to be a leader in the evolution of the energy services industry. Mr. Dayton received a B.S.E.E. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University.
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Doug Foy
Consultant
Doug Foy is the President of DIF Enterprises, a company devoted to sustainable business practices and the development of social enterprises. Prior to founding DIF Enterprises in 2006, Doug served as the first Secretary of Commonwealth Development in the administration of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In leading this "super-Secretariat", Doug oversaw the agencies of Transportation, Housing, Environment, and Energy, with combined annual capital budgets of $5 billion, operating budgets of $500 million, and a total workforce of more than 11,000. Before his service in the Romney administration, Doug served for 25 years as the President of the Conservation Law Foundation, New England's premier environmental advocacy organization. Among other awards, Doug has received the President's Environmental and Conservation Challenge Award, the country's highest conservation award, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the national memorial to President Wilson. Doug, a member of the 1968 USA Olympic Rowing Team and the 1969 USA National Rowing Team, graduated from Princeton University as a University Scholar in engineering and physics, attended Cambridge University in England as a Churchill Scholar in geophysics, and graduated from Harvard Law School.
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