NativeEnergy helps you help build Native American, farmer-owned, community based renewable energy projects that create social, economic, and environmental benefits. Native Americans and farmers traditionally care for and care about the environment because they are also very dependent on the gifts of the Earth for their survival. They are seeking a way to build their economies and their communities. This is one of the reasons we developed our novel approach to renewable energy; we want our business - our work - and so also our customers' purchases, to make a real difference.
Our Management
Tom Boucher, President and Chief Executive Officer
Tom Stoddard, Vice President and General Counsel
Patrick Spears, Management Committee Member
Bill Kallock, Vice President of Operations
Rob Smart, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Our Staff
Anne Hambleton, Senior Manager, Business Development
George Hoguet, Director, Affinity Marketing
Billy Connelly, Marketing Director
Brian Killkelley, Director, Supply Origination & Management
Joel Boucher, Graphic Design / Web Master
Kevin Hackett, Marketing Specialist
Jenn Wood, Senior Marketing & Sales Specialist
Ayesha Dinshaw, Marketing & Sales Specialist
Nancy Dennis, Customer Support
Vinnie Fugere, Senior Manager, Business Development
Kathy FitzGerald, Customer Service Manager and Office Manager
Colorado office
Jonny Bearcub Stiffarm , Business Development Manager
Our Consultants
Robert Gough, Senior Consultant
Steve Allenby, Business Development Advisor
NativeEnergy Travel Offsets
Megan Epler Wood
Richard G. Edwards
Our Management
Our President and Chief Executive Officer, is an energy industry veteran. His experience spans utility strategic and financial planning, power marketing, energy supply and renewable energy projects. As one of the founders of Green Mountain Energy, Tom led the business plan team, helped raise capital, designed new energy products and services, and developed innovative renewable energy supply contracts. In 2000, Tom initiated and co-founded NativeEnergy, a renewable energy marketing company which is creating innovative services, nationwide marketing and strategic relationships to support renewable energy development and fight global warming. With his wife Jeanne, Tom built their own energy-efficient Vermont country home over 25 years ago, and still harvests wood for much of their heating requirements. As a boy, Tom learned wood and metal working from his dad and grandfather - and while still in school, designed and built a small wind turbine for his backyard. Now years later, he proudly views new 200 foot-high wind turbines, biogas, and solar projects that are the result of his team�s efforts.
tom.boucher@nativeenergy.com
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Tom Stoddard
Co-founder and Vice President and General Counsel, Tom Stoddard, provided business advice and conducted business transactions at prominent law firms in Boston, MA and Manchester, NH. Subsequently at Green Mountain Energy, Tom focused on energy supply contracts, regulatory compliance, affinity marketing relationships and substantiation for marketing claims. As a "recovering" attorney, Tom co-founded NativeEnergy with the firm belief that business can be good for the environment, and that we can all do well by doing good.
Tom lives with his wife Stephanie, a visiting nurse, their son Ryan and their dog and three cats on a farm abutting the Green Mountain National Forest. As a child, Tom grew to love the outdoors during long walks in the woods behind his family's retreat on a Vermont lake. He is an enthusiastic catch-and release fisherman (in all four seasons), loves camping and makes wooden furniture in his woodshop in the barn.
Bill Kallock
Bill Kallock, Vice President of Operations, has seventeen years of experience in the energy services and utility consulting industries. While earning a MBA from the University of Michigan Business School, Bill worked closely with Tom Boucher and Tom Stoddard on the development and launch NativeEnergy in 2001. Over the past 6 years Bill has been a Senior Advisor to NativeEnergy, while at the same time he developed a successful renewable energy consulting practice for Summit Blue Consulting. Prior to business school Bill was a Lead Project Developer for Enron Energy Services focused on energy efficiency projects.
Bill developed a passion for the outdoors while growing up in a rural part of Ohio. It is this love of the outdoors that inspired Bill's career in the green energy and energy efficiency field. Bill lives with his wife, son and dog in the rural Vermont, where they enjoy skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, sailing and hiking.
Rob Smart
Rob Smart is a seasoned strategic marketing and business development executive with comprehensive experience working with executive teams to evaluate and strengthen existing market strategy in a variety of industries. He has led the execution of sales and marketing plans for companies in the semiconductor, Internet technology, and energy sectors, including working closely with strategic partners and clients. Prior to joining NativeEnergy, Rob was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at Distributed Energy Systems, where he was a key member of the senior management team for DESC’s wind turbine business. Rob lives with his wife Maria and their four children in Calais, Vermont, where they enjoy the many wonders of Vermont’s Green Mountains and the central Vermont region.
Mr. Patrick Spears is a member of NativeEnergy's Management Committee and co-founder and President of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (COUP), representing eleven Tribes in the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Intertribal COUP is involved in policy issues and outreach education to Tribal governments, Tribal Colleges, and indigenous environmental organizations on telecommunications, climate change, energy planning, energy efficiency and renewable energy development. The policy work includes specific proposals to support renewable energy development, energy efficiency, and as team member of the Intertribal Energy Network. Mr. Spears has worked in tribal government and Indian programs in various capacities over the past 30 years.
As a member of the development team, he assisted in the first commercial, utility scale wind turbine project (750 kW) at the Rosebud Casino and on feasibility and development of the 30 MW project for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He has provided consultant services for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe on feasibility for community and wind-hydro pump storage projects and is currently consulting with the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe on community and rural wind projects. Spears also manages the wind energy feasibility and development for community and commercial wind power for the eight COUP Tribes in the 80 MW Intertribal Wind Project.
Intertribal COUP represents Tribal energy interests from regulatory and economic perspectives at regional and national levels on regulatory issues, policy analysis, energy development plans, and legislative proposals. Mr. Spears views energy as a key component of sustainable development and economic restoration. The energy interests range from utility regulation policy, energy planning, energy efficiency, and renewable energy with emphasis on wind energy development.
Mr. Spears is a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and completed undergraduate work in Sociology with emphases in Anthropology and Indian Studies from the University of South Dakota, and graduate study in Public Administration at the Washington D.C. Public Affairs Center, University of Southern California.
pat.spears@nativeenergy.com
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Our Staff
George is responsible for expanding the company’s marketing outreach with key business partners and non-profit organizations. In August 2007, he relocated to Vermont from Pennsylvania, where he worked closely for us with the Departments of Environmental Protection and Agriculture in developing the emission calculation methodologies and market for renewable energy from animal waste on family dairy farms.
With a BSEE from the University of Dayton, Ohio, George spent 28 years in the electrical power and controls industry, advancing from sales engineer to senior posts including Automotive Marketing Manager and Director of Product Marketing with Gould Inc. and the Square D Company. In 2001, he returned to his hometown of Philadelphia, making a major career shift into the environmental field where he helped develop the policy-based Cool Pennsylvania Coalition for PennFuture, and also worked as the Million Solar Roofs coordinator.
George is a member of The Climate Project, the 1000 trained presenters for Al Gore’s slideshow from the film, An Inconvenient Truth, and has been a member of Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, Penn Environment, the Alliance for a Sustainable Future and a Steering Committee member of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia. He is our representative to the Vermont Business for Social Responsibility network.
george@nativeenergy.com
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Billy Connelly
Billy Connelly, Marketing Director, has more than 15 years experience in marketing, communications, and public relations. Prior to joining NativeEnergy in 2002 Billy worked for two regional recycling operations in Boston and for PBS affiliate WGBH-TV, where he helped re-launch the hit - 70s show ZOOM. As a publicist Billy placed clients in Newsweek, New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, and on Bloomberg News Radio, among others dozens of other major media. Billy sits on the Advisory Board for the Sci Fi Channel's "Visions for Tomorrow", and he has been trained by Al Gore and The Climate Project to present Mr. Gore's slideshow, as seen in "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH".
Billy telecommutes from his home lives with his wife Lisa Bailey, a senior scientist with an environmental consulting firm, outside Boston, which keeps his carbon footprint as small as possible. Both are avid hikers and campers, and Billy is a complete novice fly-fisherman.
billy.connelly@nativeenergy.com
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Brian Killkelley
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Jonny Bearcub Stiffarm
Jonny BearCub Stiffarm, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Nation, is the Business Development Manager for NativeEnergy. She brings a wealth of experience in negotiation, small business development, contracts, and leadership. She served in Mayor Wellington Webb's administration as the Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of Contract Compliance for both the City and Denver International Airport and his Native American Indian Liaison to the local, regional and national Indian Nation entities. She received her undergraduate from Brigham Young University and a juris doctorate from the University of Minnesota School of Law.
jonny@nativeenergy.com
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Joel Boucher
Joel is our webmaster and graphic designer. While finishing his B.A. in visual communications and working as a freelance designer, Joel began work on branding NativeEnergy in 2002, and he has created a unique look for the Company's marketing programs, through print and interactive media outlets.
joel@nativeenergy.com
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Kevin Hackett
Kevin Hackett came to NativeEnergy with a background in sales and marketing
from the ski industry and action sports world. He was born and raised in
Vermont and graduated from Champlain College. When he is not working, Kevin
enjoys spending time with his girlfriend and his dog Kota, and skiing in the
woods of Vermont.
kevin.hackett@nativeenergy.com
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Jenn Wood
Jenn joined NativeEnergy in June 2007, almost immediately after she graduated from Tufts with her Masters in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning with a concentration in Sustainable Design and Social Change While at Tufts, she co-taught a Master's level course entitled Strategies for Social Change and worked with Ceres, a national coalition (of which NativeEnergy is a member) focused on advancing social and environmental corporate responsibility. Prior to pursuing her Master's degree, Jenn spent more than ten years in the outdoor, adventure therapy profession leading trips with various populations all across the U.S., Canada, and also in Tanzania. These adventures evolved out of her two Bachelor degrees, one being Outdoor Education and the other, Sustainability and Education, both from Northland College in Ashland, WI.
jenn.wood@nativeenergy.com
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Ayesha Dinshaw
Ayesha Dinshaw joined NativeEnergy as a Marketing & Sales Specialist after graduating from Middlebury College with a BA in Environmental Studies and a Studio Art minor. While in college she worked on a Zero Waste program, a thesis on environmental literature, and studied abroad in Namibia. In the past she has been involved with issues of conservation biology, environmental justice, and unsustainable development, and is now excited to be part of the carbon offset industry. She is from Bombay, India, but loves Vermont and will not leave until she sees a moose.
ayesha.dinshaw@nativeenergy.com
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Nancy Denis
Nancy Dennis
Nancy Dennis has more than 30 years of experience in customer support, sales and administration. Prior to joining Native Energy she was project coordinator for a custom printing systems company. Two of her projects were working with Masterfoods (custom printing on M&Ms) and P&G (printing on Pringle potato chips). She also volunteered as a research assistant in Greenland and Antarctica collecting and analyzing snow and ice core data to understand past climate properties.
A native-Vermonter Nancy enjoys skiing, hiking, sailing, horseback riding and kayaking.
nancy@nativeenergy.com
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Ms. Hambleton has more than fourteen years experience in the fields of climate policy and renewable energy. Before joining NativeEnergy, she led the market development of a corporate energy and greenhouse gas management software solution. She has advised companies on renewable energy and carbon offset (CDM) investments in Latin America, worked with developing country governments to create carbon offset programs, and worked on three of the first international carbon offset projects to be accepted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Initiative on Joint Implementation. Anne also worked on international climate policy at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United States Agency for International Development; and is a published author on the subjects of sustainable development and market-based environmental solutions.
Anne lives with her husband, David, three teenagers, two Labradors, two cats and four horses on a farm in Addison County. Anne is an avid amateur steeplechase jockey and loves skiing, kayaking, and any sport that involves going across country at speed.
anne.hambleton@nativeenergy.com
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kathy.fitzgerald@nativeenergy.com
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vincent.fugere@nativeenergy.com
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Robert Gough
Bob Gough is an attorney with graduate degrees in sociology and cultural ecology, with over 30 years experience and two fellowships on tribal cultural and natural resource issues.
The first director and now a consultant to the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Utility Commission, Gough participated in WAPA negotiations for tribal allocations of federal hydroelectric power. He is the secretary of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy, an organization composed of federally recognized Indian tribes in the Northern Great Plains providing a forum on rights and resources for utility services on tribal lands, and co-chairs the national assessment's Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop.
Gough contracts with the DOE -Wind Powering America program's Wind Powering Native America Initiative, and co-directs the NativeWind.org and EnergyIndependenceDay.org campaigns supporting partnerships between ICLEI-Cities for Climate Protection and the Intertribal COUP tribes interested in building sustainable homeland economies based upon renewable energy.
bob.gough@nativeenergy.com
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Steve Allenby
Steve has been in the energy field for over 26 years. He worked for 14 years for an investor-owned utility in the Northeast, the last 6 of which as Senior VP of Operations and Marketing, and President of the utility's unregulated energy services subsidiary. Steve has developed considerable expertise in the development and financing of the federal energy efficiency and renewable market. He has written 3 reports for ESource dealing with federal energy efficiency and utility privatization. On behalf of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), Steve was a principal drafter of a model energy efficiency services agreement between the Edison Electric Institute and the Department of Defense.
steve.allenby@nativeenergy.com
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NativeEnergy Travel Offsets
Megan oversaw the formation of The International Ecotourism Society (www.ecotourism.org) in 1990, the first and largest ecotourism NGO in the world and was its president for 12 years. Under her leadership, TIES developed a membership program in over 100 countries, workshops and stakeholder meetings that reached tens of thousands, and an international communications program that reached millions. Since 2003, Megan's firm EplerWood International (www.eplerwood.com) has worked for the World Bank International Finance Corporation to develop sustainable tourism strategies for some of the poorest nations in the world, and for USAID developing market-based ecotourism programs in biodiverse regions of Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ecuador, and Honduras.
megan.eplerwood@nativeenergy.com
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Richard spent years working in sustainable development and as a marketing specialist living in Latin America for the Organization of American States. His more recent work is focused on the private sector, including heading the sales of a pioneering ecotourism operator and consulting with operators, hotels and ecolodges to market effectively in a technology-driven world. Richard is a Top Travel Specialist for Cond Nast Traveler, recognizing his efforts in sustainable tourism in Central America through his adventure travel company, GreenSpot.
richard.edwards@nativeenergy.com
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