Principals

A. Quincy Vale
President
Founder and President of PowerHouse Enterprises™. Quincy is responsible for day-to-day management of all company operations. In addition to establishing PowerHouse’s modular homebuilding operation, he participates in projects ranging from managing competitive energy procurements for municipal and private entities, to renewable energy and green building project management, and to advocating for policy and regulatory developments before administrative agencies and legislative bodies. Quincy also serves on myriad planning and advisory committees including the Green Buildings Advisory Committee convened by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Sustainable Design Roundtable.

Prior to starting PowerHouse, Quincy developed and managed the Massachusetts Green Buildings Program for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and was involved with all aspects of its work on the Renewable Energy Trust. In this role, he acted as a project manager for green building design and construction projects throughout the state and administered financial assistance as grants and loans of approximately $100 million to hundreds of recipients for work relating to a wide variety of projects and renewable energy technologies. In addition to gaining significant expertise with a wide variety of generating systems and energy efficiency measures, he also participated in the development of many state and utility policies that influence the marketplace for the technologies, including the RPS regulations, ISO-NE’s Generation Information System, and distibuted generation interconnection protocols.

John D. Rossi
Design Principal
A Leed 2.1 accredited design professional and registered architect with 10+ years of architectual, interior and industrial design experience. John, the son of a Connecticut builder/developer, grew up in and around residential construction and even maintained his own construction business for a time.  John has worked as a free-lance sculptor and filmmaker and he has a number of product designs undergoing the initial Patenting process.

John is responsible for all aspects of design and engineering coordination including meeting with developers and homeowners from the beginning of the PowerHouse integrated design process.

Design issues involve everything from typical architectural services relating to our modular homes to the design of our startup factory and manufacturing processes through to the integration of sustainable manufacturing practices and materials with our designs and construction methods. We have also begun to explore alternative uses for materials with regard to our modules.

Director

Matthew Eisendrath
Sales and Marketing
Matt has a strong background in driving sales, marketing, & business development for start-ups. He also has valuable experience in the energy efficiency and real estate fields, having worked as a carpenter, real estate developer, and consultant. Matt's real-world experience has been reinforced with the academic study of Real Estate Development & Finance, Economics, and Energy and Environmental Politics at Harvard.

Associates

Hillary Ward
Registered Architect
Graduated Carnegie Mellon and has worked in MA for more than 8 years. Hillary has also worked in China, while studying architecture at the internationaly known Kun Ming Polytechnic.

Sheila Lemke
Sheila is a graduate of Tulane U. School of Architecture in New Orleans and has been practicing in Boston area for more than 10 years... "her sense of taste, finish and proportion is exquisite" - JR

Nancy Williams
General Counsel
An experienced attorney with substantial public construction and management experience.

Jason Lu
Financial Manager
An energy and development project finance specialist with 6 years national and international experience in investment banking.

Advisors

Corporate & Market Development:

Richard Bertman – Principal, Childs Bertman Tseckares (CBT/Architects, Inc.).

Jeff Lissack – Serial Entrepreneur. Business Development, Start-up funding, and operations executive for three early stage companies, one of which he helped take public (The Cobalt Group); former Director of Recycling Market Development, Mass DEP.

Martha Broad – Green Power & Green Marketing expert; former Managing Director, CLF Ventures; founding General Manager of Rainforest Crunch on behalf of Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen.

Green Building/Clean Energy/Healthy Housing Technologies

John Snell – Peregrine Energy Group; Consultant to the Healthy Public Housing Initiative.

Carl Orio – Chairman, Water Energy Distributors, Inc.

Greg Watson – Expertise too numerable to list.

Housing & Urban Development Policy

Dr. Lawrence J. Vale – Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning - Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joy Conway – Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative; Chairperson, City of Boston Green Building Task Force.

William Andrew Shutkin – President & CEO, The Orton Family Foundation; formerly President, New Ecology, Inc.