Bill Kanzer Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston

The XDC Network combines the power of public & private blockchains with interoperable smart contracts. By using XDPoS, an low-energy validation technology (instead of mining), the XDC Network is one of the greenest blockchains, having among the lowest carbon footprint in the industry (more than 6 orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin or Ethereum)

Boston, MA

• Ampion provides billing, acquisition and customer service for community solar farms.
• Responsible for acquiring members for community solar farms both directly and through channel partners and resellers.
• Motivate and manage sales team to achieve required result
• Improve processes to increase efficiency and drive profitability

Greater Boston Area

• Relay Power is dedicated to making clean, renewable power available to as many homeowners as possible. We specialize in acquiring, servicing and billing residential customers for community solar installations. We're.
• Contract with developers to fill their arrays with residential customers.
• Build inbound channel through partnerships with a wide variety of organizations to provide additional inbound lead flow for community solar sales.
• Responsible for all marketing activities from branding to website to collateral to social media

Boston, MA

• Next Step Living is a leading residential energy company providing energy audits, weatherization, windows and solar
• Led team of 40 who rated homes, generated estimates/proposals, reviewed all technical aspects of sale, oversaw installations and provided technical support and service
• Worked cross-functionally with sales, customer service and other departments to improve communications
• Produced 35% installation revenue growth, $40MM revenue with 35% gross margin
• Responsible for partnerships with developers, financiers for community solar arrays
• Built partnerships to increase lead flow

Greater Boston Area

• Developed complete sales and process curriculum for every aspect of solar sales advisors’ training
• Contributed heavily to roughly tripling solar sales while improving sales processes and quality
• Created on-going training programs to improve advisors’ technical data collection on solar homes and improve compliance of sales paperwork
• Led classes for all incoming solar sales staff

Williston, Vermont

• AllEarth Renewables is the manufacturer of dual-axis AllSun Tracker™ for residential and commercial PV systems
• Directed all aspects of Marketing & Sales efforts during transition to channel-sales business model
• Led sales team in identifying, qualifying and selling through new channel partners
• Developed new financing source for Power Purchase Agreements (PPA)
• Rolled out ad campaigns in PV trade magazines, on-line, through email, direct mail and Google Adwords, resulting in improved lead flow of potential partners
• Headed up redesign and upgrade of trade show booth and overhaul of marketing literature; brought increased structure to marketing and sales processes

• Tioga Energy is a Solar Power Purchase Agreement provider serving commercial, industrial and non-profit customers
• Responsible for all PPA sales in Eastern U.S. through channel partners such as solar specialty integrators, general, electrical and roofing contractors
• Identified, developed and closed sales including strategic sale to Big Y, a regional supermarket chain

• Alteris Renewables is a solar and wind systems integrator, serving utility, commercial and residential customers
• Responsible for all advertising, public relations and corporate communications programs contributing to sales growth from $35MM to $56MM
• Unified and harmonized newly-created brand across all marketing elements from signage and clothing to collateral, advertising, public relations to trade show and web presence
• Centralized and coordinated marketing efforts across eight states
• Managed complete website overhaul to provide best-in-class design and features. New website included custom programming to facilitate remote evaluation of homes for applicability to solar
• Launched revolutionary residential solar service in Massachusetts garnering television and full-page Boston Globe coverage

• Areas of expertise include developing web and social media and optimizing on-line and email advertising, improving traffic and conversion rate of visitors into customers
• Helped renewable energy companies achieve higher market share and increased sales
• Identified and developed large customer and investor prospects for wind energy provider
• Consulted on product development and developed training program for PV start-up;
• Managed complete website overhauls and vastly expanded capabilities, including content management, blogging, e-commerce and e-marketing
• Created new brands, collateral suites and marketing materials

• Evergreen Solar is a PV panel manufacturer with proprietary manufacturing technology
• Responsible for global advertising, public relations and corporate communications programs contributing to sales growth from $2MM to $40MM
• Managed advertising and public relations firms in US and Europe
• Developed all aspects of the firm's global communication efforts from investor annual reports to global interactive media to print advertising to developing and managing media coverage

• Responsible for global advertising, public relations and corporate communications programs contributing to sales growth from $2MM to $40MM
• Managed advertising and public relations firms in US and Europe
• Developed all aspects of the firm's global communication efforts from investor annual reports to global interactive media to print advertising to developing and managing media coverage

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Graduated Summa Cum Laude