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The EnergyWindow Management Team
Jack Mason Dr. Jack Mason, President

Jack Mason is an electric power industry executive with more than 30 years of relevant energy industry and consulting experience. He has managed numerous information-technology-based service and system businesses, where he oversaw business, service, or product development. He has held management positions up to and including president of a $50 million public company employing 300 professionals, Tenera, L.P. Mason also played a key role in developing two successful businesses that were subsequently acquired at favorable revenue multiples, including Advanced Technology, which was acquired by Emhart, Inc., and subsequently acquired by Black & Decker, and PRISM Consulting, which was acquired by Indus International (IINT). Dr. Mason has advanced degrees in engineering and management from MIT and the Sloan School.


Chris Wiederspahn Chris Wiederspahn, Vice President Business Development

Chris Wiederspahn has over 20 years of business development and marketing experience. Recently, he has been called upon to develop analyses of changing wholesale power markets for the federal government and to help revamp the sales and marketing strategy for one of the nation's top five electric utility holding companies. Prior to this, he was in charge of sales and marketing for GPU Advanced Resources, an unregulated subsidiary of a five-billion-dollar holding company specializing in the sale of retail energy and energy services. Here, he built and managed the sales and marketing team of 25; grew sales from zero to approximately $100 million in 14 months; and helped the company become profitable within three years. He has consulted with hundreds of industrial/commercial customers across the nation, in both energy and marketing-related capacities.


Ian Bowman Ian Bowman, Director of IT and Product Development

Ian Bowman is an energy industry veteran with more than 11 years experience in technology management and lean business process development. Most recently, he was Director of Development at UtiliTech, Inc., where his duties included strategy development, continuous improvement, software development, & regulatory compliance. He co-developed custom software to automate core business functions, including workflow scheduling, utility analysis, client billing, financial forecasting and business metric tracking. He has led cross-functional implementation teams and has applied technological solutions to solve critical business challenges and gain competitive advantage through optimized business processes. Prior to this, he held positions as a senior market analyst with FirstEnergy Solutions and as Process Development Manager at GPU Advanced Resources, as well as earlier engagements with Honeywell, Merrill Lynch and AT&T. He has consulted with a variety of companies, including industrial and commercial energy users, on custom software development, database management and business technology strategy. Bowman holds a BA from Rutgers University.


Christa Lassen-Vogel Christa Lassen-Vogel, Chief Marketing Executive

Christa Lassen-Vogel is an Addy Award winner who brings 20 years of national creative and strategic branding experience to EnergyWindow. Previously, she served as a brand consultant for Sterling-Rice Group, where she developed strategic positioning platforms, new product concepts and advertising campaigns for a Who’s Who list of global companies including Quaker, Pfizer, Kimberly-Clark, McCormick Spice, AT&T, Bernina and a host of others in technology, consumer products, and telecommunications. In 2000, she founded Art of Business, Inc., an integrated marketing and brand development consultancy. She has served corporations including Sun Microsystems and Qwest, as well as a variety of companies in verticals such as packaged goods, healthcare, consumer services, telecommunications, and business and leisure travel. She is a frequent guest contributor to product development and positioning initiatives in the brand consulting industry. Ms. Lassen-Vogel earned a Bachelor of Science in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.


Joan Wright Joan Wright, Vice President Finance and Administration

Joan Wright is a corporate finance and administration executive with more than 25 years of experience. Most recently, she was CFO for Financial Times Energy, Inc., a division of Pearson plc, based in Boulder, Colorado, which provided energy information services, pricing indices and strategic consulting to the energy market place. Prior to this, she served as the controller/CFO/treasurer for Esource, Inc., an energy information company. She also held a position as controller of Sony Corporation of America's Technical Operations Center in Boulder, Colorado. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from New York Community College.


Joan Wright Peter Edwards, Partner, Altira Group - EnergyWindow Director

As an Altira partner, Peter Edwards advises start-ups and growth-stage companies. He has a strong understanding of energy and information systems technology, and serves or has served on the boards of directors of RC Squared, GeoDynamic Solutions, Boyd Geomatics, WhiteStar, Austin Geomodeling, Jones Intercable and Cochlear. Edwards joined Altira as a partner in 1998. He began his career with the Wall Street law firm of Dewey Ballantine and subsequently relocated to Denver to become senior in-house counsel to Jones Intercable, Inc., a publicly held cable systems operator. In 1985, he joined Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson, a large regional law firm, where he became a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Law practice group. He also serviced as counsel and strategic advisor to several large technology companies. Edwards earned bachelor's degree in business administration from University of Michigan, and a J.D., cum laude, from University of Michigan.


The Energy Window Advisory Team:
Energy Window has maintained a strong set of advisors since its inception, including:

Earl McLaughlin

Earl McLaughlin currently is the president of Boulder Tomorrow, a nonprofit group aimed at promoting long-term economic health in the Boulder area. McLaughlin also has served as a marketing and new business consultant. He also has extensive energy industry experience. Specifically, he provided consulting on the formation of Cadence, a national energy service company. He was vice president of Energy Services for roughly 10 years and also worked as a regional manager, and energy services manager for Public Service Co. of Colorado.


Larry Fenster

Larry Fenster is an energy company investor and former chief executive of Natkin Energy Management, a Colorado-based energy performance service company. Fenster was president of this firm and its successor, ServiceMaster Energy Management, for more than 15 years. He also subsequently founded Global Facility Solutions, a facility management outsourcing company. Fenster currently is an angel investor in a variety of start-up and early-stage companies. Fenster earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Nebraska, and an MBA from the University of Colorado.


Wayne Greenberg

Wayne Greenberg is the former president of Financial Times Energy (FTE), an international research publishing and consulting firm specializing in energy markets, power technologies and utility industry business issues. Prior to FTE, Greenberg was president of Shepard's, the legal publishing arm of the McGraw-Hill Companies, and also has held various management positions at LEXIS-NEXIS, the world's largest provider of online professional information. He received a bachelor's in public communications from Boston University; an MBA from Tulane University; and a J.D. degree from Tulane Law School, where he also served as an associate dean.
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