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Yorktown Heights, Ny, Us

Regenerative Strategies helps businesses, non-profits, CDFIs and co-operatives obtain financing and develop energy projects in relation to federal and state funding opportunities including from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

* Lead and manage development of legal, business and contractual models for all commercial contracts including Community Choice Aggregation and Community Distributed Generation (Community Solar) with 55 municipalities saving consumers in excess of $10M.* Lead and manage development of legal, business and contracts for performance-based energy efficiency financing.* Draft employment agreements, non disclosure agreements (NDAs) and non-compete agreements.* Contracts include project finance, energy efficiency finance, demand response, community choice aggregation, community distributed generation, energy performance guarantees and insurance.* Oversee drafting of Company's Employee Handbook, Data Security Policies and Procedures, and Employee Stock Equity Plan.* Manage outside counsel and litigation. * Lead and manage legal for establishment and operations of private equity financing fund.* Company and Fund legal work includes corporate, securities law, intellectual property, technology, Employment and international. * Draft and negotiate company financing structures, contracts and related agreements including master agreements, customer agreements and contractor agreements including performance, leasing, shared savings and guaranteed savings agreements. * Draft, negotiate and manage Data Security Agreements with utilities and electricity suppliers.* Negotiation of grant agreements in the US and Europe.* Manage and responsible for legal efforts in connection establishing and operating Company's managed private equity fund.* Drafted successful petition for Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) pilot in Westchester County before New York State Public Service Commission – the first CCA project in New York State.* Draft and negotiate myriad agreements in relation to CCA and Community Distributed Generation including local partner agreements, utility agreement, municipal agreements, energy supply agreements, community solar development agreements.

* Manage and operate law practice with focus on commercial law, corporate, capital raising, renewable energy, clean tech, intellectual property, licensing, trademark, copyright, employment, business acquisition and sale agreements.*Represent and work as outside general counsel for businesses, individuals, non-profits, start-ups, technology companies, Internet businesses, e-commerce sites, media companies, photography companies, and clean tech companies. *Consult on strategy, business development and fundraising to clean tech and information technology companies.*Tried and argued more than 75 trials, hearings and appeals.

Co-op Power is a consumer-owned sustainable energy cooperative. Co-op Power operate within a regional network of Community Energy Cooperatives to create a multi-class, multi-racial movement for a sustainable and just energy future.

Jericho Center, Vermont, Us

The Capital Innovation Lab supports the growing movement for democratic access to capital. We use research, project development, and consultancy to explore, test, and implement new strategies and systems to help communities invest in themselves, especially those under-served by traditional capital sources. We envision a future where the circulation of wealth within a region cultivates strong, vibrant, and resilient local economies; a sense of place and community among citizens; and financial well-being for all.

New Paltz, New York, Us

*Co-founder of business that uses Internet to aggregate and organize knowledge about sustainable, environmental and ethical corporate behavior, so that citizens can make better decisions.*Develop, draft and negotiate license and other agreements with data suppliers, software programmers, and affiliates.*Develop relationships with non-profit partners.*Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel

Local Farms Fund is a community impact farmland investment fund that supports young and early-stage farmers in the NY Foodshed with secure land access. The Fund provides sustainable farmers with lease-to-own arrangements on farm properties in the states connected to the NYC metropolitan area, the NY Foodshed. This model, using Slow Money principles, delivers positive social (farm business & community development) and environmental (sustainable agriculture) impacts while generating modest financial returns for the investors.

Beacon, Ny, Us

* Board Member and Executive Committee Member; Former Board Vice President* Chair Nominating Committee* Chair of Environment Action Committee -- Develop Clearwater's environmental policy and oversee Environmental Action Department.* Drafted and succeeded in getting admitted a first-of-its-kind Environmental Justice contention before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission challenging the relicensing of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant.* Draft and negotiate a wide range of contracts on behalf of the organization. * The mission of Clearwater is to preserve and protect the Hudson River for the benefit of its eco-system and human communities while creating new environmental leaders for a sustainable future.

Newark, New Jersey, Us

* General Counsel and Business development for solar panel manufacturer.* Investor, prospective investor, lender and board relations.* Draft and negotiate supply, distribution, sales, joint ventures, loan, independent contractor, NDAs, contract forms, purchase order, warranties and other company agreements * Work with solar module manufactures, system integrators, utilities, photovoltaic cell suppliers, material and component suppliers, universities and trade associations.* Manage Intellectual Property including patent, trademark, NDA and trade secret issues.* Government relations with local, county, state officials, Congressmen, NYSERDA, NYS Empire State Development, NYS Empire Zones, US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense, Ulster County Industrial Development Agency.* Draft and Negotiation Government grant and PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreements.

Financing And Clean Energy Certificate -- Yale Center For Business And The Environment (Cbey)

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

A.B., History, English