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Paul Fenn, CEO/Founder, has developed a matrix of market structures, financial tools and risk management strategies to make possible an exponential scaling up and accelerated deployment of renewable and demand-side energy technologies. Fenn authored California's 2002 Community Choice law, Assembly Bill 117, after co-authoring the nation’s original such law in Massachusetts in 1994 and going on to draft San Francisco's 2001 H Bond authority – the nation’s first municipal revenue bond authority to finance renewable energy development. Most recently, Mr. Fenn was primary author of San Francisco’s Community Choice Draft Implementation Plan and H Bond Program, a framework to make San Francisco 51% green-powered by 2017.

Julia Peters, Chief Operating Officer / Co-Founder, manages Local Power’s
daily operations including finances and subcontractor operations. Ms. Peters ran
Local Power’s coalition and nonprofit fundraising activities prior to 2007 and
managed San Francisco’s Proposition H campaign in 2001, helping form and
managing the San Francisco Community Choice Energy Alliance.

Howard V. Golub, LPI Chief Strategic Advisor, is former General Counsel of Pacific Gas & Electric. Mr. Golub is a senior partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, and has thirty years of experience in the energy industry. He provides services to a wide range of clients in the energy industry nationwide including investor-owned and publicly owned utilities, independent power producers, and developers of technologies for the production of energy. Nixon Peabody LLP (NP) attorneys are leaders in providing advice and counsel to municipalities and public entities in the development and implementation of energy strategies. NP is a nationally recognized bond counsel with experience and leadership in all areas of public finance. NP is perennially among the top-10 bond counsel representing thousands of issuers.

John Cutler, President / Co-Founder, Focus on Investor Relations, brings a
deep knowledge of project roll out and business development from his 20-year
career at T-Mobile USA and related wireless communication companies. Mr.
Cutler managed the acquisition of cellular telephone operating licenses,
radio and backhaul network design, real estate acquisition, site zoning and
permitting, network roll out, and the expansion and rebranding of direct sales
channels. He has been an advisor to Local Power for ten years.

Robert Freehling, Vice President, Research. His work includes include
technical analysis of performance based incentives for solar photovoltaics for
SMUD's solar program and the concept, design, and economic modeling of clean energy replacement for a fossil fuel power plant for Chula Vista, California. Mr. Freehling contributed to modeling elements of San Francisco's Implementation Plan for CCA electricity purchases, with emphasis on photovoltaics and renewables as a hedge to mitigate natural gas price risk.

Arthur Medlar, Chief Information Officer, co-developed WAIS, the first internet
search engine, as well as the early version of the Internet Archive
(waybackmachine.org). Art has 25 years in software development, design, and management experience - Starting with Thinking Machines in Boston, MA in the late 1980’s, Medlar was a software engineer programming massively parallel Connection Machines. During the 1990’s Medlar worked at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto, CA Operating Systems Research and Development. More recently Medlar was principal engineer at San Francisco-based Brightmail, an anti-spam software product, where he took a napkin sketch of the technology and managed the entire development process to full-scale deployment and sale of the company to Symantec in 2004.

David Erickson, Senior Climate Analyst - Since 2004, Dave Erickson has
been working on quantifying and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions at a local
level. As Technical Director of the award-winning Climate Protection Campaign,
he lead a technical team on the development of a comprehensive multi-sector
Community Climate Action Plan. Other projects Erickson worked on involved
GHG emissions analysis of water and wastewater systems, GHG inventories and energy efficiency projects for local government operations and GHG inventory
development and management for a variety of businesses. Prior to receiving a
second bachelor’s degree in Energy Management and Design, Erickson worked
in high tech startup companies as a software development engineer.

Major Advisors

Bradley Turner, Booz Allen Hamilton, Design-Build-Operate-Maintain Public
Works - Booz Allen’s lead for Local Power, is an attorney, with over 16 years of
professional experience structuring contracts for public-sector projects valued at
over $7B across a range of technologies. Founded in 1914, Booz Allen Hamilton
(Booz Allen) has over 19,000 employees world-wide including hundreds of
professionals skilled and experienced in helping government agencies develop
and successfully deliver approaches to meet their infrastructure needs. Booz
Allen is one of the largest and most highly regarded full-service management
consulting organizations in the world. Since 2004, Mr. Turner has contributed
substantially to Local Power’s CCA Program Design adopted by San Francisco,
involving a Design-Build-Operate-Maintain approach to the City’s renewable
rollout and 51% RPS. Booz Allen staff has extensive experience in structuring
procurement strategies and developing and supporting their implementation.

Chris Kiriakou, Chief Procurement Advisor, was Assistant General Manager of Energy Resources for the Turlock Irrigation District in California's Central Valley until 2002, where he served for 26 years before forming Cornerstone Consulting, specializing in power planning including conservation and energy management and rate design early in his career.

Bill Powers, PE, Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer, California
(Certificate M24518) Chief of Powers Engineering, San Diego, CA 1994-
ENSR Consulting and Engineering, Camarillo, CA 1989-93; Naval Energy and
Environmental Support Activity, Port Hueneme, CA 1982-87; U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 1980-81; Master of Public
Health – Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina, Bachelor of
Science – Mechanical Engineering, Duke University; Registered Professional
Mechanical Engineer, California (Certificate M24518), American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.