Our Team

Liza Bowles
President
Focus: Business development; company management; research leader and coalition builder
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Manages government/private industry projects
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40+ years of experience in building consulting
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Member Fire Protection Research Foundation, Home Builders Care Board of Directors
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Former president NAHB Research Center
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Matt Evans
HERS Rater, Senior Analyst
Focus: Energy code trainer, Building System Analyst, Energy Star verifier; RESNET/BPI trained; simulation and modeling
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Conducted 100s of in-person and online trainings on the codes in New York State and Connecticut
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Former high school teacher
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Field experience as a building system analyst, HERS Rater + years of working as a builder
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High-performance home construction expert

Veronica Gentile
Energy Analyst and Outreach
Focus: Provides research and analysis across current projects.​
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Performs program tracking, research, and analysis for ongoing projects within EEE program & ZERH which includes the tracking of individual construction aspects for residential buildings
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Research and compilation of alternative green building incentives programs nationwide.

Sam Bowles
Senior Analyst
Focus: Project and program management, strategic marketing/communications, data analysis and reporting
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Manage federal, state, private industry projects
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Communications director for the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home program
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Outreach to build awareness and consumer education (social media, industry and community events)
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Certified HERS Rater
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BPI Building Analyst
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RIVA Facilitation Trained

Rebecca Stodgell
Energy Analyst
Focus: Project management, data analysis
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Data analyst expert and
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Manage energy performance analysis, including data collection from various software tools.
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Data collection, analysis and reporting with the understanding of the construction and/or building operations industry.
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Proficient MS Office skills
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Culture Management

Evan Rzenik
Energy Engineer
Focus: Energy and renewables; energy modeling; Energy Star rater;
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Sustainable energy finance and analysis expert
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Visual Basic programming for Microsoft application
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Data acquisition systems and CR Basic programming
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R programming for data analysis
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Advanced mathematics in MATLAB
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