Leadership Team
Jake Clark
Jake is Vice President of Project Development for Encore Renewable Energy. He joined Encore in 2019 as a Project Developer, in a role in which he leveraged his multi-disciplinary background in project management, engineering, and energy law to advance Encore’s clean energy projects from inception through development, to the EPC phase. In this capacity, Jake…
Chris Clement
Chris is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer for Encore Renewable Energy, where he leads the Company’s project finance and corporate investment activities. Chris has over a decade of experience as a sustainable finance professional working to catalyze investment and innovation in the transition to a broadly prosperous, low-carbon economy. The common thread…
Chad Farrell
Chad is the Founder and co-CEO of Encore Renewable Energy, a leader in community scale renewable energy project development services. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the fields of brownfields redevelopment and renewable energy project finance, development and construction. At Encore, Chad leads the team’s innovative and collaborative efforts to design, permit,…
Phillip Foy
Phillip is the General Counsel and Chief Development Officer for Encore Renewable Energy. He joined the Company in 2014 and was named General Counsel in January of 2016, and CDO in January of 2022. Outside of Encore, he teaches energy courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont. At Encore, Phillip brings his…
Lauren Glickman
Lauren is the VP of Policy and Communications for Encore Renewable Energy. She has over a decade of experience in clean energy and climate change advocacy, and a successful track record for implementing winning social media and online strategies. She was awarded a Platinum Cleanie Award in 2019 as a Rising Star for the clean…
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson is the VP of Construction for Encore Renewable Energy. Sonia started her career in the R&D division of a large multinational gas turbine manufacturer in Montreal. Upon relocating to Vermont Sonia entered the state’s rapidly growing clean energy sector, working initially for a locally based solar data monitoring provider before joining Encore. As Vice…
Doug MacDonald
Doug is the VP of Engineering for Encore Renewable Energy. He has worked in the renewable energy industry for over 20 years and provides in-house engineering expertise to further refine the commercial designs that define Encore’s success to date. Prior to joining Encore, Doug worked for SolarEdge Technologies as a Senior Application Engineer, managing design…
Ralph Meima
Ralph is VP of Project Development at Encore Renewable Energy. His career spans 8 years in solar energy development plus earlier work in international IT marketing, systems consulting, and software development. He also devoted part of his career to research and teaching in management education with a sustainability focus, including serving as founding director of…
Ginie Olson
Ginie Olson is the VP of People & Talent for Encore Renewable Energy where she is responsible for all aspects of the Company’s human resources functions as well as general management of a number of Encore’s day-to-day business activities. Prior to joining Encore, she worked in several areas of human resources in the banking industry…
Jesse Stowell
Jesse is the Chief Commercial Officer for Encore Renewable Energy where he leads the origination of new solar and energy storage projects. He brings over two decades of experience to support the expansion of Encore’s growing project development pipeline. Prior to joining the team in 2016, Jesse was a Regional Sales Manager at SunEdison where…
Blake Sturcke
Blake is co-CEO of Encore Renewable Energy, where he is responsible for the Company’s operating and financing activities. Blake also oversees corporate development, M&A, and other general management functions. Prior to joining Encore, Blake co-founded Turning Earth, a leading clean energy company within the organics recycling and waste-to-energy sector. Earlier in his career, Blake worked…
Full Team
Kelsey Applegate
Bill Barnes
Laura Berry
Zack Browne, P.E.
Christine Giovannoli
Josh Dansie
Owen Dartley
Kate Desrochers
Wissam El Khatib
Rob Greer
Caity Hines
Lisa Hughes
Taegen Kopfler
Lilly Kuhn
Jenn Lacy
Amber Lessard
Perla Osuna
Cameron Reaves
Dan Sawchuk
Louisa Stevens
Board of Advisors
Jon Anda
Jon Anda is an investment banker, climate activist, and entrepreneur. In his 20-year career at Morgan Stanley he was Vice Chairman of Institutional Securities, co-head of global capital markets, head of equity capital markets, and head of investment banking & institutional equities in Asia. He was named a Managing Director of the firm while a…
Dr. Philip Asare
Philip Asare is a researcher, educator, and engineer with a strong interest in how we practice and teach engineering. At the University of Toronto, where he is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice and Division of Engineering Science, his teaching focuses on engineering design and his project…
Jerry Greenfield
Jerry Greenfield and his long-time friend and business partner, Ben Cohen, are the men behind one of the most talked-about and least conventional success stories in American business. Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., Greenfield has helped to build a store front venture into an ice cream and business marvel by making social responsibility…
Jamie Hendry
Jamie Hendry was a founder of the Managing for Sustainability (MSUS) Program in Bucknell University’s School of Management, where she is an associate professor and the MSUS Program Chair. She teaches foundational courses in sustainability, core courses in strategy and ethics, and the University’s unique experiential introductory course Management 101. Jamie loves to teach and…
Dr. Peter Jansson
Peter Jansson is President of Integrated Systems, a renewable energy consulting engineering firm, as well as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University. He worked as an engineer in the electric power industry and consulting for nearly 20 years before entering academia in 2001, during which time he designed/installed well over…
Janice St. Onge
Janice St. Onge is President of the Flexible Capital Fund, L3C (“Flex Fund”), a mission based investment fund providing flexible risk capital to Vermont’s food system, forestry and clean technology businesses. As President of the Flex Fund, Janice manages all facets of the Fund’s operations, including raising capital, deal flow, due diligence, and portfolio /…
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