As the Vice President of Marketing at Clean Power Research, Matthew leads a team of marketing professionals to build the company’s brand and drive business results. In this role, Matthew has aligned his passion for clean energy with his technology industry experience that spans agile startups and Fortune 500 companies. Matthew’s expertise lies in his ability to weave innovative narratives that resonate with diverse audiences and generate revenue growth and brand loyalty. He has a wide background in product marketing and management roles with a focus on go-to-market, data-driven campaigns and digital marketing initiatives that deliver strong business results. Matthew’s background includes marketing and leadership roles with technology businesses including Tyco Electronics, Ivanti, Microsoft & Outerwall (Coinstar/Redbox). Matthew has a BA from Whitman College. 

Jennifer brings a customer focused approach to her work at Clean Power Research. As a PowerClerk Product Manager, she works closely with our utility customers to understand their needs, strategize solutions and translate those concepts into software development specifications. She collaborates with customers on key processes such as the design and launch of new energy programs, partner integrations, data visualization and reporting. Jennifer holds a Master of Science with a concentration in Sustainable Systems from University of Michigan, a B.S. in Environmental Studies from Elon University, and is certified in Database Management and Industrial Ecology.

James is a Senior Technical Product Manager who joined the PowerClerk Team a year ago. His mission is to ensure your integrations with PowerClerk provide efficiency and value while being as secure and seamless as possible. Before joining Clean Power Research, James honed his skills architecting large-scale authentication, healthcare, and telecommunications systems. He’s always available to dig into the details of your current integrations and open to discuss ideas and solutions for the next ones. 

Aubrey joined Clean Power Research in January of this year as a Customer Success Manager for utility products, including PowerClerk® and WattPlan®. Her primary focus is working with Program Designers to understand their needs while developing programs that adhere to Clean Power Research's best practices. Prior to January, Aubrey spent five years with CopperTree Analytics collaborating with building management teams to optimize energy usage and reduce environmental footprints. Aubrey is deeply committed to fostering both success and sustainability.

Hannah Keenan is a Senior Manager at the Center for Sustainable Energy, a national nonprofit that accelerates adoption of clean transportation and distributed energy through effective and equitable program design and administration. She has nearly a decade of experience in state and utility solar and clean energy programs, including the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) Program, California Solar Initiative (CSI) and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Solar Incentive Program. Hannah brings a deep understanding of solar installations at all stages of development and expertise in program administration and operations, intentional project management, and customer and community engagement. 

Lauren is a team lead for Customer Success with Clean Power Research’s utility products, including PowerClerk® and WattPlan®. She works closely with utility program managers to streamline program processes and adopt best practices. She also focuses on providing support resources and training programs to admin teams. Lauren joined Clean Power Research in 2022 after five years of project management experience in facilitating environmental programs at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and holds a Master’s in Biology. Her favorite part of her role is hearing the joy admin feel in automating processes large and small, allowing them to focus on growing their clean energy sectors.

Andrew Price joined Clean Power Research in 2020 to lead our Transportation Electrification business development efforts. He works closely with utilities to shape and implement their transportation electrification strategies, leveraging his 7+ years of experience in the EV ecosystem. Prior to joining Clean Power Research, Andrew spent four years at Nissan Europe’s European Headquarters where he supported the Electric Vehicle and Energy Services departments with policy and business development initiatives across Europe. He has authored and contributed to several leading white papers and studies analyzing the opportunities and impacts associated with vehicle-grid integration. Andrew holds an MBA in Digital Transformation from Durham University in England and a B.S. in International Business from the College of Charleston.

Lauren is a team lead for Customer Success with Clean Power Research’s utility products, including PowerClerk® and WattPlan®. She works closely with utility program managers to streamline program processes and adopt best practices. She also focuses on providing support resources and training programs to admin teams. Lauren joined Clean Power Research in 2022 after five years of project management experience in facilitating environmental programs at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and holds a Master’s in Biology. Her favorite part of her role is hearing the joy admin feel in automating processes large and small, allowing them to focus on growing their clean energy sectors.

Evan works as a Product Manager on the PowerClerk Team. Evan’s core responsibility is ensuring that we are building a best-in-class tool that can be used across a multitude of utility programs. Currently, Evan is focused on promoting PowerClerk’s Electric Vehicle Program capabilities while ensuring a seamless user experience for our utility customers. Evan has experience working in business development and product management across a variety of industries and graduated from the University of Washington’s MBA program in June of 2022.

Jennifer brings a customer focused approach to her work at Clean Power Research. As a PowerClerk Product Manager, she works closely with our utility customers to understand their needs, strategize solutions and translate those concepts into software development specifications. She collaborates with customers on key processes such as the design and launch of new energy programs, partner integrations, data visualization and reporting. Jennifer holds a Master of Science with a concentration in Sustainable Systems from University of Michigan, a B.S. in Environmental Studies from Elon University, and is certified in Database Management and Industrial Ecology.

Gabe is the Director of Strategy for Efficiency First California. His primary focus is overseeing the SMUD Contractor Network and SMUD's residential gas-to-electric conversions rebate programs. His duties include program design, reporting, strategy, and managing the contractor support and quality control teams.

Besides his day-to-day duties managing the SMUD programs, Gabe also helps with the overall strategy in EFCA's other ventures:
Clean Energy Connection, the EFCA trade group, and Business Development.

Gabe started working in the Home Performance and residential energy efficiency industry and CleanTech after receiving his MBA with an Emphasis in Sustainable Business from San Francisco State in 2012. Prior to his master's, he worked for many years in marketing and production design in the natural food and media industries.

Torsten Zabka is Clean Power Research's Group Customer Success Manager overseeing Customer Success operations for PowerClerk, WattPlan, and SolarAnywhere. He started his journey at Clean Power Research's in spring of 2018 growing the Customer Success Team enabling fulfillment of 40+ Professional Services projects to date spanning from complex FERC utility programs to EV and EVSE programs to internal projects such as PowerClerk’s Ticket System, Learning Management System, and Certification Program. Torsten brings along 20+ years of experience working with SaaS companies in a variety of positions in web development, localization management, customer success, and team management.

As a Customer Success Manager on the PowerClerk® team, Amanda works with new customers to ensure a seamless onboarding experience and maximize feature adoption. Prior to joining Clean Power Research in 2023, Amanda worked at Convoy, helping customers improve their operational efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies and Sociology from Santa Clara University and is passionate about building a more equitable and sustainable world.

Hiro Hiraiwa leads strategic business development initiatives pertaining to Clean Power Research’s utility solutions. He brings 20 years of program management, technology strategy, solution architecture, and stakeholder engagement experience in the energy and utility sector to identify customer pain points, evaluate long-term growth opportunities, and articulate value propositions of the innovative software solutions that Clean Power Research offers. Prior to joining Clean Power Research, Hiro led solution delivery, business development, and product management efforts in support of Bidgely’s expansion into the Asia-Pacific markets. His other experience includes serving various utility clients and government agency clients as a consultant at Navigant (currently Guidehouse), focusing on program management, technology evaluation, and R&D strategy engagements. Hiro holds an M.S. and B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California - Berkeley.

James is a Senior Technical Product Manager who joined the PowerClerk Team a year ago. His mission is to ensure your integrations with PowerClerk provide efficiency and value while being as secure and seamless as possible. Before joining Clean Power Research, James honed his skills architecting large-scale authentication, healthcare, and telecommunications systems. He’s always available to dig into the details of your current integrations and open to discuss ideas and solutions for the next ones. 

Aaron is a Web GIS Administrator for PNM Resources, Inc. (PNMR) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He’s been working in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for over 25 years and has been with PNMR since 2003, where he supports the company’s web mapping ecosystem and engages in data analysis and data processing. He started integrating PowerClerk and GIS in 2018, automating what was previously a manual process to populate GIS data from PowerClerk. Aaron has also worked with a team to reduce the time needed to produce cost estimates for new services. It utilizes a public-facing ArcGIS Online survey form to populate PowerClerk projects, which engineers in turn use to track projects and create estimates with a custom web map. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison (BS) and the University of New Mexico (MA, PhD). 

Diana Barton's tenure at Central Hudson Gas & Electric as an Engineering Associate in Electric Distribution Planning has been supporting the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) interconnection process. Over the course of 14 years, she has been involved in a wide range of activities, from managing applications to reconciling project costs, all while staying updated on regulatory policies.  In her most recent role as the PowerClerk Program Manager for the past 8 years, Diana has played a pivotal role in the development and enhancement of Central Hudson’s Interconnection Online Application Portal (IOAP). She initially spearheaded the configuration and implementation of the program and has since transitioned into overseeing its ongoing improvement, ensuring its compliance with regulatory changes, proactively identifying areas for enhancement, and optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the interconnection process through PowerClerk updates.

Andrew Galczyk is currently a senior engineer at DTE serving in the Interconnection department and has been with the company for over 5 years. He began his career at DTE as a student co-op in the New Technology team for the first one and a half years before transitioning to his current role with the Interconnection team. He graduated with a B.S.E. from Oakland University with a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent most of his time in the Interconnection team performing typical interconnection engineer duties while also adding the responsibility of being the lead PowerClerk designer for DTE’s Interconnection program. Over the last couple years, he has been responsible for integrating DTE’s PowerClerk program with various other internal systems, developing tools to assist and streamline the day-to-day work for fellow Interconnection engineers and created PowerBI pages to track projects statuses and metrics.

As a product manager on the PowerClerk® team, Brandon primarily focuses on DER modeling and data-driven decision making. He has developed and continues to maintain PowerClerk's internal data ecosystem and works with customers to understand and improve program performance. Brandon joined Clean Power Research in 2023 after 3 years in the pharmaceutical industry at Catalent Biologics working to improve capacity producing Covid-19 vaccines. He graduated from Purdue University in 2021 with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

In her role as Customer Delivery Manager, Melissa is responsible for onboarding utility customers to PowerClerk®. She works closely with existing and new customers to define and deliver training programs, document as-is and to-be business processes and to run integration workshops with other third-party vendors.  Prior to joining Clean Power Research in 2019, Melissa worked on Puget Sound Energy’s Meter Operations team and has 6+ years’ experience in project management for electric utilities, as well as hands-on experience in implementing the Power Clerk platform from the utility side. Melissa holds an Associate of Applied Science in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, and Masters in Business Administration focusing on Business Leadership. Melissa enjoys creating FERC Generator Interconnection PowerClerk workflows that resemble the starship enterprise and occasionally eats cake for breakfast.

Shannon Roberts is a product manager for WattPlan®, a customer facing energy advisor tool for rooftop solar, battery storage, electric vehicle charging and rate education. Previously she worked on residential battery storage at SunPower, and utility-scale solar and storage at Doosan GridTech. She holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 

James is a Senior Technical Product Manager who joined the PowerClerk Team a year ago. His mission is to ensure your integrations with PowerClerk provide efficiency and value while being as secure and seamless as possible. Before joining Clean Power Research, James honed his skills architecting large-scale authentication, healthcare, and telecommunications systems. He’s always available to dig into the details of your current integrations and open to discuss ideas and solutions for the next ones. 

Scott DeWees is a member of Clean Power Research’s Customer Success team, focusing on delivering EV and EVSE program configurations for PowerClerk customers. Scott joined CPR in 2021, arriving with subject matter expertise in renewable energy, transportation electrification, and building energy efficiency. Scott previously served in the public sector in program management with the Port of Seattle SeaTac Airport and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency supporting renewable energy and decarbonization programs. In his first professional endeavor he worked for a commercial solar project developer and has been “energized” by supporting decarbonization ever since.

Shelly Whitworth is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations in their efforts to advance the clean energy transformation. She’s served as a Product Marketing Manager at Clean Power Research since 2021. She originally embarked on her renewable energy journey with Central Coast Community Energy, a public Community Choice Aggregator in 2018. Beyond work, Shelly enjoys outdoor activities with family, including camping, hiking, and snow adventures.