Matt Golden blends his experience as a licensed and BPI Accredited Home Performance Contractor and as a recognized leader in the Home Performance industry, to provide clients with a unique combination of market and public policy acumen.
Matt's was previously Founder and President of Recurve, a practicing home performance contracting company and software developer powering the residential energy efficiency market by delivering the most advanced in-home energy modeling, reporting and estimating software tools to help contractors and utility companies profit while saving homeowners money. In 2010 Recurve ranked as the 24th Top Energy Company by Inc Magazine and 3rd Most Innovative Energy Company by Fast Company. In 2011 it was a GoingGreen Global 200 top private company for innovation and transforming big industry. Recurve’s technology was acquired by Tendril to be incorporated into its smart grid cloud platform.
Matt believes that the home energy efficiency industry can deliver on its promise through smart public policy that engages private markets and leads to energy efficiency delivered 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, in order to help public sector and private industry clients develop and implement strategies to bring energy efficiency to market as a resource.
Michael Blasnik ASSOCIATE
Michael Blasnik, based out of Boston, Mass., has more than 25 years of experience in performing state-of-the-art research on energy efficiency, designing efficiency programs, and conducting energy program evaluations. His areas of specialization include research and pilot program design; impact evaluation methods; assessment and refinement of engineering algorithms for predicting energy use and savings; development of building diagnostics approaches; statistical analysis; and mathematical modeling of building performance. He has published many technical papers, made more than 100 presentations at related conferences, and led many field trainings on building diagnostics.
Michael has worked with programs across the country as one of the nation’s leading EM&V consultants to align program performance with actual demonstrated savings. His experience evaluating a variety of program types and business models, combined with a wealth of real world data on actual savings, makes Michael perhaps the country’s leading authority on linking predicted and actual energy savings.
Rick Gerardi PRINCIPAL
Rick Gerardi continues to be an industry leader in designing and implementing innovative programs and businesses for improved energy efficiency and building performance for three decades. He has had demonstrated success at state and national levels in both the public and private sectors in fulfilling the promise of a focused strategic vision to realization. Rick has been a pioneer and advocate of market-based approaches to program deployment designed to develop a sustainable market for residential energy efficiency as an inherent value to consumers and a viable business model.
Rick will bring his unique expertise gained through years of both public and private sector involvement with the home performance industry. Rick headed the New York State Weatherization Assistance Program for fourteen years, before creating the residential deployment programs for NYSERDA, including the original Home Performance with Energy Star program. Rick went on to private sector rolls at both Lockheed Martin, and more recently MASCO’s WellHome Home Performance initiative. Rick’s experience extended to new home construction with innovative Energy Star Homes program design at NYSERDA and heading up MASCO’s Environments for Living business unit which works with large scale builders across the country and conduct over 20% of all HERS ratings in the country.
Rick developed and implemented the most successful low-mid and rental / split incentive home performance program in the country while running the NY Home Performance with Energy Star program for NYSERDA. The innovative approach to this hard to reach market resulted in significant uptake in these hard to reach sectors, which now comprise 45% of the total program. While at NYSERDA Rick worked closely with TRC Energy Solutions in implementing the innovative Multifamily Building Performance Program which is now a national model for addressing that sector. Rick is currently consulting with LBNL as a recognized thought leader on strategies to engage moderate income homeowners.
