Founder PresidentMarc Rappaport has been involved in renewable energy for over forty years. He served as the founding president and a charter member of the Oregon Solar Energy Association in 1971. In 1972, he invented the geothermal-solar hybrid system, for which he was later awarded the basic patent. During the same period, Marc engineered and developed the business plan for what is now Biomass One, L.P. This 30 mW biomass plant in Medford, Oregon has been in commercial operation for the past 26 years. He served as a founder, general partner and managing partner of this project which remains a very profitable operation. As a result of his pioneering works, he now holds the honor of being the only American asked to present at the Sustainability of the Planet conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Board of Directors I. David Reingold has a bachelors from Dartmouth College and a PhD from the University of Oregon. He taught organic chemistry at Haverford, Middlebury, Lewis & Clark, and Juniata Colleges, and recently retired to Portland. He has served as a national officer in the Council on Undergraduate Research and as a local officer in three different sections of the American Chemical Society. Dave's website. Sandra Foltz is now retired from the field of education and social services in the
Portland area. She has served on the boards of the Guadalajara Sister
City Association and the Clackamas Service Center. Her educational background
includes a bachelors in Psychology from the University of Oregon and a degree
in Education from Portland State University. Her background training has also
included fundraising, sales and grant writing. She has run her own skincare
business for the past 24 years. She also has a passion for clean energy and the
environment, travel, the outdoors, music and sports. Michelle Yockelson has a varied educational background, beginning with a Certificate of Advanced
Mastery in Arts and Communications from South Eugene High School in Eugene,
Oregon. She pursued her undergraduate education at Juniata College in
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where she designed her own Bachelors of Arts program
in Peace and Politics. In 2017, she graduated with a JD, a Graduate
Certificate in Civil and Human Rights Law, and a Certificate in Public Policy
Mediation from Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana.
She is passionate about healing the world and encouraging individuals and
communities to embrace an ethos of social obligation. She has
participated in the development of civic engagement and community legal
education programming in 8 countries, most recently in Myanmar. She has
returned to her home state of Oregon and is excited to be a part of the
Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation. Prior to joining the Alliance, Tom co-founded and was CEO of VizX Labs, a cloud-based bioinformatics company. Earlier, he led a team that turned around and doubled the size of Axio Research. He directed public affairs at the state’s largest biotechnology company, Immunex, and was President of the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association. Tom spent fourteen years as a Trustee of Harborview Medical Center including serving as Board President. He has served on the Boards of VizX Labs, Axio Research, the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (Chair), the Technology Alliance, the Washington News Council (Treasurer), the University Sunrise Rotary Club (President), Council of State Bioscience Associations (Chair), Seattle Mental Health (Chair), Crisis Clinic, Magnolia UCC (Moderator), and others. Tom has an MBA from the University of Washington and a BA in economics from the University of Virginia. His MBA thesis was “U.S. Petroleum Dependence and Energy Alternatives.” Selection Committee Mike Grainey was Director of the Oregon Department of Energy between 2002 and 2009, and led the State’s efforts to become one of the leading states in energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy. He was Renewable Energy Advisor of the Oregon Business Development Department between 2009 and 2014 where he promoted clean technology jobs and recruited renewable energy manufacturers, and is currently Principal of Michael W. Grainey Consulting, working on clean energy project finance and development, sustainability, energy policy and climate change. Kal Lambert (see above)
Bill Lemon has over 25 years in the energy industry starting with Pacific Gas and Electric where he was a key contributor to the financial evaluation of the full spectrum of electric generation technologies, current and emerging. He was later recruited by ConneXt (now part of by Alliance Data Systems), a provider of information technology products for the energy sector, where, as the Senior Product Manager he led their efforts to identify the key technical and business implications of deregulation on energy IT. Most recently, as Senior Vice-President at Source Capital Group, he leads fundraising efforts for a variety of Cleantech businesses from start-ups to large renewable energy projects. Traci Pashley has more than 13 years of experience as a structural engineer in renewable energy. She has worked as an engineering consultant and small-business owner, devoted to promoting clean energy from renewable sources. She currently works for Vestas Americas as Manager of Engineering and Technical Support for Vestas’ North American fleet of more than 8,500 wind turbines. She holds a degree in mathematics from Linfield College and a degree in civil engineering from Portland State University. |