Executive Committee and Voting Directors

David Hepinstall

Chairman

David Hepinstall has been Executive Director of the Association for Energy Affordability, Inc. (AEA) in New York City since 1993. AEA, an independent training organization, is a not-for-profit membership, training and technical support and energy services organization whose mission is to use energy efficiency to maintain affordable and healthy housing for low and moderate-income families and communities. David has 25 years of direct experience designing, developing and managing innovative public and nonprofit programs serving energy affordability, community development and education needs in low-income communities. He is currently a member of NYSERDA's System Benefits Charge Advisory Group, the NYC Mayor's Energy Policy Task Force, and the Low Income Forum on Energy (LIFE) Steering Committee. Over the past three years, he has shepherded the development of AEA's Energy Management Training Center in the Bronx. The Center includes teaching labs with heating systems and advanced building controls designed for hands-on learning, and classrooms with digital video, Internet access, and computer presentation capabilities. AEA's trainers offer a wide spectrum of technical trainings for a broad set of audiences, including weatherization, field staff, boiler contractors, hydronic heating system designers, property managers, building superintendents, maintenance staff and others interested in improving the performance of their buildings or pursuing a career working in this field. David is a member of BPI's Technical Committee and participated in Expert Panels convened by BPI to develop the standards for BPI's Multifamily Building certifications.

Carrie Smith

Vice Chair and Treasurer

Carrie A. Smith is the Chief of In-Home Services for FSL, a nonprofit organization located in Phoenix Arizona. FSL provides a wide spectrum of social services that include housing, health care, home improvements and energy training to thousands of residents each year. With a team of 150+ employees and an annual operating budget of $10M, Carrie’s management and leadership span the health care and home improvements industry. Her responsibilities include executive oversight of the agencies home health and home care program, private duty nursing program, pathways clinical social service program and the FSL Home Improvements division. Since 2001, she has been directly involved in the Arizona Weatherization program, overseeing a technical staff and contractor base that has completed over 4,500 weatherization projects. She is an active member of the Energy OutWest Board of Directors and has chaired the organizations energy technical conference for the past six years. In 2004, with the help of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Arizona Energy Office, she led the development of the Southwest Building Science Training program, a BPI affiliate organization. To date, the SWBSTC has provided over 14,000 candidate training hours to thousands, many of whom have received BPI certifications. With help from the Arizona utility providers APS and SRP, she helped launch the Arizona Home Performance program (a local sponsor of the national Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program). In the spring of 2011, FSL received the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Sydney Roberts, Ph.D.

Secretary

Sydney G. Roberts, Ph.D. has actively engaged the greater building community through outreach activities at Southface. She is a lead instructor and curricula developer for a number of professional trainings, as well as supporting trainer with other staff. Sydney has delivered invited lectures on topics of energy efficiency and green building at diverse forums such as the 2010 ACI Trainers Consortium and 2007 British Consulate Climate Change Initiative Forum and has presented at regional and national conferences in this field. Dr. Roberts and her colleagues communicate with both building professionals and homeowners by publishing audience-specific articles in regional and national magazines and journals. Further, Sydney has represented Southface by speaking to the general public on topics of energy efficiency and home improvement through various media appearances on radio and television.

Dr. Roberts is the Project Manager for several Southface projects, including Home Performance with ENERGY STAR and the U.S. Department of Energy Building America projects and is the Southface Home Services Program Manager, overseeing all existing homes projects. Leading residential research at Southface, Sydney works directly with builders, providing technical assistance and forming collaborations with industry partners. She performs performance data monitoring, synthesis and reporting. As a Home Performance with ENERGY STAR provider and manager of existing homes projects, Sydney provides the link between federal ENERGY STAR standards and priorities and the education and mentoring of builders and contractors in Georgia.

Laverne Dalgleish

Immediate Past Chairman, Director

Mr. Laverne Dalgleish is a principal in the Building Professionals Consortium (BPC), which designs, develops and delivers site quality assurance programs for the construction industry. Laverne has been actively involved in the construction industry for over 32 years and has specialized in building envelopes, energy efficiency and building performance for over 20 years. Laverne is a frequent presenter across North America on a variety of topics as they relate to building envelopes, energy efficiency, green building practices, standards and quality of construction. Laverne is actively involved in the standards development process and is currently the chairman of ULC's Thermal Insulating systems and standards. He is also an active member in ASTM, CSA, CGSB and is Secretary of two ISO standard development committees. Laverne is currently the Executive Director of the Air Barrier Association of America.

Brian Castelli

Director

Brian T. Castelli is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Alliance to Save Energy. He has 30 years of national and international experience in the energy field, including expertise in energy efficiency, renewables, emission reductions, and electricity demand reduction. Prior to joining the Alliance in July, 2005, Castelli ran his own energy consulting firm. There, he was the federal energy liaison for the California Energy Commission and performed consulting assignments for the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Association of State Energy Officials and others. As an appointee of President Clinton, Castelli served as chief of staff to the U.S. Department of Energy's assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy from 1994 to 2001. He managed 550 staff and more than $1 billion in programs and research, development, and deployment initiatives and directed the development and implementation of energy policies and programs. Prior to DOE, Castelli was appointed in 1988 by Governor Bob Casey to the Pennsylvania Energy Office (PEO), and as executive director he ran the commonwealth’s energy policies and programs, managed the state energy office and the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, and took the lead on responding to energy emergencies. Earlier in his career, Castelli was senior vice president and cofounder of CEXEC, a private sector energy consulting firm. He has authored many articles, studies, and reports on energy-related issues, served on various boards of directors, and made presentations in many state, national, and international forums and conferences. Castelli holds two degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, a bachelor of science in chemical engineering, and an MBA in industrial/environmental management from the university's Wharton School.

Howard Katzman

Director

Howard is a Principal in GreenChoice Consulting, LLC, which provides training and consulting for energy efficiency programs, contractors and training organizations. He has been involved in the construction industry for over 30 years and has specialized in improving the delivery of sustainable construction techniques for 9 years. Howard has partnered with Saturn Online to be a regional Training Ally. He has taught numerous courses in all aspects of high performance construction and has developed curriculum and program standards for the home performance and weatherization industries. His recent clients include: Saturn Resource and Management, Alabama Weatherization Association (with RJ Karg & Associates), Performance Systems Development, and Louisiana Technical College. Howard is a certified Building Analyst, independent trainer and HERS Rater with over 30 years of experience in the construction industry at large. He consults on home performance for homeowners and contractors and ran his own renovation firm for 20 years. While on the staff of Southface Energy Institute, he helped to develop and then manage the EarthCraft Renovation and Home Performance with ENERGY STAR programs.

Steve Cowell

Director

Mr. Cowell has been President of CSG/Sun Power Electric, Inc. since 1984, and is the organization’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cowell has been the founder and director of numerous energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations during his career. For the past 30 years, Mr. Cowell has been involved in conservation programs around the country and has successfully advocated for energy efficiency as an electric power supply option. He has helped create and build the industry through sound public policy, legislation, development of utility company programs, establishment of trade ally networks and delivery of cost-effective residential, commercial and industrial energy efficiency programs. Under Mr. Cowell’s leadership, CSG has designed and implemented conservation and renewable energy programs for utilities, state agencies and other groups throughout the U.S. and has provided water and power conservation services to nearly one million businesses and households.

Matt Golden

Director

Matt Golden has a unique blend of experience as a practicing BPI Accredited Home Performance Contractor, having conducted over three thousand energy audits and home energy retrofits, and as a leader in the Home Performance industry. Matt is policy chair and was founding chairman of Efficiency First, a trade association representing over 1,300 Home Performance businesses and is a member of the Building Performance Institute, National Home Performance Council, and Home Performance Resource Center boards. Matt believes that the home energy efficiency industry can deliver on its promise through a smart public policy that engages private markets and leads to treatment of energy efficiency as a demand side energy resource. Matt is applying his real world market experience, running and raising capital for a home performance contracting business, with a deep understanding of public policy and program design, to help public entities and private industry clients develop and implement strategies to bring energy efficiency to market as a resource.

John Tooley

Director

John Tooley is one of the nation's leaders in the area of building science technologies. Hailed as a visionary in energy efficiency, Tooley has diagnosed and repaired more than 5,000 homes. He participated in the weatherization of more than 10,000 homes. He is recognized for his contributions to many of the largest utility and building programs in the nation. Before joining Advanced Energy in 1996, Tooley led a number of companies dedicated to preserving the state of Florida through quality building practices. These companies included: Natural Florida Homes, Natural Florida Retrofit Inc., Star Insulation, Home Energy Reviews of Orlando (HERO), and Infrared Services and Inspections. Today, Tooley is responsible for business development with the organization's Applied Building Science team. Regarded as a pioneer in the world of energy efficiency, Tooley trains builders and contractors all over the United States. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences and most recently at the 2008 Fourth Annual North Carolina ENERGY STAR Conference and the 2008 Energy Out West Conference.

Julie Humes

Director

Julie Humes has been involved in the contracting industry for over 30 years, the majority of her tenure in marketing management for Lennox Industries, manufacturer of heating, air conditioning, components and indoor air quality products. Since 2000, she has held a role in energy efficiency marketing management and has spent this time in a unique direct-to-dealer distribution relationship. She has been involved with national, regional, and local marketing from both the manufacturing and contracting sides with focus on energy-efficiency marketing strategies in several business segments – residential, commercial, new construction and refrigeration. In this role, Julie has worked with national and state organizations and local utility companies to achieve common goals in market transformation. Her expertise in consumer buying behavior for HVAC products brings a strategy that benefits the bottom line profits of contracting, utility, and manufacturing organizations.

Paul Francisco

Director

Mr. Francisco has been a research engineer with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center and Building Research Council at the University of Illinois since 2003, and worked as a research scientist for 10 years with Ecotope, Inc. in Seattle, WA. His research focuses on energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and their interactions in residential buildings, primarily through field measurement. Mr. Francisco is also involved with training of residential building assessors and contractors with a focus on building science principles and understanding the ‘House as a System’ approach that includes both energy and the indoor environment. He has held several leadership positions on ASHRAE committees related to residential energy and indoor environmental quality, is a member of the Weatherization Trainers’ Consortium, and is a member of the ad hoc Health and Safety Committee for DOE’s low-income Weatherization Assistance Program.

Liaisons

Patrick O’Shei

Non-voting Member

Patrick O’Shei is the Director of Performance Management and Evaluation Systems at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). He is responsible for energy program and market evaluation, management reporting and quality assurance. He is overseeing the implementation of a NYSERDA-wide Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing integrated system solution designed to support more efficient use of IT resources, more efficient business processes and more effective use of knowledge resources to produce desired outcomes.

He was most recently the Program Manager for Quality, Standards and Compliance in the Residential Energy Services Group, where he was responsible for oversight over: Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES), New York ENERGY STAR Homes (NYESH), EmPower NY and the small CST Photovoltaic Solar and Solar Thermal Programs. He designed key elements of NYSERDA’s contractor and field quality assurance systems and implemented a disciplined performance improvement methodology.

Prior to joining NYSERDA, Patrick held positions as VP of Operations and Finance for a commercial retrofit performance contractor, served as VP and COO of an educational not-for-profit, served as owner for the construction of an award winning Green Hotel/Conference Center and served as a principal/senior consultant for several firms.

Federal Liaisons

David Lee

Federal Liaison

David Lee is currently the Supervisor of the Residential Integration Program for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technology Program (BTP), which is focused on improving the efficiency of new and existing homes in the U.S. Formerly, David was the Director for the Residential Branch, overseeing the ENERGY STAR® New and Existing Homes Program. Prior to the ENERGY STAR Program, David was the Branch Chief responsible for the regulatory program to phase out the use of ozone depleting chemicals at EPA. Over his career, he worked in several policy offices with EPA and the Department of Health and Human Services, developing multimedia risk assessments of pollutants, as well as working on social security, pension and social welfare policy. Formerly, David was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya.