David Reingold

President

Dave 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.

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Leah Y. Parks

Director of Communications

Leah Parks co-authored the book, "All-Electric America: A Climate Solution and the Hopeful Future."​ She is an independent consultant who solves problems in clean technology and energy policy. Parks is a former editor for ElectricityPolicy.com and Electricity Daily and former VP of Business Development at OpConnect. 

Parks served on City of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Environmental Policy Task Force, has acted as an advisor for technology reports, and writes about innovations in clean technology and the energy transition.  She holds a Master of Science degree from Stanford University in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison in International Relations.

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Marc Rappaport, Founder

Marc 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. He served as a founder, general partner and managing partner of this 30 mW biomass plant in Medford, Oregon which has been in commercial operation for the past 26 years. He  holds the honor of being the only American asked to present at the Sustainability of the Planet conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Sandra Foltz

Friend of the Board

Sandra Foltz is 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. She has 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.

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Erica Valli

Secretary/Treasurer

Erica Valli is a transactional attorney with experience in the renewables sector.  As a native Oregonian, she returned to Portland a few years ago and has been working for Stoel Rives LLP, participating in its Environment and Natural Resources practice. Prior to that she lived and worked in London for over ten years. She has a degree from UC-San Diego and studied at the London School of Economics before attending law school in the UK.

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Bryce Yonker

As the executive director & CEO for Grid Forward Bryce leads strategic development, industry engagement, programs and operations. He was a founder and original board member of the organization dating back to 2009. He is also the principal for EnerTec Development, a energy and tech consultancy and is an advisor to energy growth companies. Bryce previously served as the senior director of business development & strategy for Clean Edge, a leading clean tech market research and advisory firm and VP of membership for Technology Association of Oregon. He holds a bachelor degree in business administration from Pepperdine University and an international MBA from IE in Spain. In his spare time, Bryce enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, and being in the NW outdoors especially with a fly-rod in hand.

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Richard Jaskiel

Friend of the Board

As a lifelong equity investor and former Registered Investment Advisor, Richard Jaskiel employs both fundamental and technical analysis in building portfolios.  He has owned and operated a Portland small business and was a project manager in both technical and economic development arenas.  He has a BA from Reed College, and has pursued subsequent coursework in mathematics, computer science, accounting and technical writing.

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