ABOUT E2
Since its inception in 2002, E2 New England has dramatically raised its profile in Massachusetts, becoming widely recognized as an important player on Beacon Hill and a strong business voice in support of environmental initiatives. With over 100 members, E2 New England has been active in advocating for policies to support the growth of the clean energy sector and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for many years, playing a significant role in support of the major policy framework that has made the state a national climate and energy leader.
Chapter Leadership
Geoff Chapin
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Geoff Chapin
E2 Chapter Director
Geoff Chapin is an entrepreneur and investor in several different companies, including being the founding investor in Phoenix Revolution Inc. Phoenix Revolution has a patented solution that reduces the power requirements and cost for reverse osmosis by over 70% each. Currently the product is at work for U.S. military units, cleaning up high toxicity wastewater in the energy sector, villages in Haiti, the Galapagos, and pilots in rural villages in Vietnam, India, and Nepal. Geoff also is co-founder of Sea-Quester, which is working with the best seaweed farmers in the country on pilots to bring seaweed into cattle feed. Early studies have shown this can reduce methane emissions by over 95%, as well as make the animals healthier. He is also working with the United Nations, universities and the Qlik Software company to found SDG Engine, which aims to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) via a global database that will match companies providing sustainable solutions with countries and agencies that are looking for those solutions in order to meet the SDGs. He is a graduate of The Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Berl Hartman
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Berl Hartman
E2 Chapter Director
Hartman Consulting
Berl Hartman is Co-Founder and a Director of the New England chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national community of business leaders who promote sound environmental policy that builds economic prosperity.
Ms. Hartman was also a founding member of the North East Clean Energy Council (NECEC) and served on its Board of Directors and as Co-Chair of the Council’s Policy Committee. In 2008, she received the Council’s first Clean Energy Leadership Award. Ms. Hartman also serves on several boards and committees including the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions’ Implementation Advisory Committee (IAC), and the President's Advisory Council of the Woodwell Climate Research Center.
Prior to her work with E2 and NECEC, Ms. Hartman served as Sr. Vice President at Blanc & Otus, a subsidiary of Hill & Knowlton Public Relations, where she founded and led the company’s first Cleantech/Clean Energy practice.
Before her career in cleantech, Ms. Hartman served as a senior executive in several database software companies, including Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Sybase and Vice President of Engineering at Computer Corporation of America. She has also held positions at UC Berkeley, Boston University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Allen McGonagill
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Allen McGonagill
E2 Chapter Director
Purple Carrot
Allen McGonagill is a start-up executive focused on business models that are helping individuals take climate-positive action. He is currently the Head of Strategy at Purple Carrot, a vegan meal kit based in Needham, MA, where he is helping shift people to low-carbon diets and address the ~20% of global carbon emissions from meat. Prior to Purple Carrot, Allen spent over 6 years of in B2C clean tech (rooftop solar, community solar, smart grid programs, energy efficiency). He founded Relay Power, which provided customer support services for the community solar industry including: customer acquisition, customer service, and billing. The Relay Power team enrolled 20MW of community solar offtake across thousands of homes, pioneering many of the first contract and billing structures for the industry. Prior to Relay Power, he worked at Next Step Living across the rooftop solar and energy efficiency teams and at a boutique clean tech strategy consulting firm. Allen graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in economics and a B.A. in environmental studies.
Dave Miller
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Dave Miller
E2 Chapter Director
David Miller is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Clean Energy Ventures, a fund that makes investments in early stage clean energy technologies and business model innovations. Prior to this he founded and served as Executive Managing Director of the Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG), an investment group that funds early stage clean energy companies that have the potential to mitigate climate change and achieve attractive financial returns. An engineer by training, he brings over twenty years of technology startup management experience and over fifteen years of seed stage investing experience. He has been on the board of directors or advisory board of several clean energy companies, including MyEnergy, Azima DLI, and Cambrian Innovation and has mentored many others. He also has an appointment as Research Affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Previously, David founded several companies, including Quantum Telecom Solutions and sold the company to Lucent Technologies. At Lucent, he served as Director in the New Ventures Group where he managed and evaluated a diverse set of early stage investments. David received his BS and MS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT and completed his doctorate at MIT’s Lab for Energy and the Environment.
Sarah Simon
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Sarah Simon
Chapter Director
Sarah J. Simon, P.E., is a Partner at Apple Creek Associates, an environmental consulting firm. Throughout her more than 30 years in industry, consulting, and government, her work has focused on reducing environmental impacts and emissions, resulting in cleaner energy and more efficient processes. She previously served as Environmental Compliance Manager at Ameresco, a leading renewable energy and energy efficiency company. Her prior experience includes Deputy Director at the Division of Air Quality at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. In that role, she represented the Department on legislative commissions studying Radon Risk and Indoor Air Quality. She was a member of the team that streamlined the permitting process and received an Innovation in Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government. While working at the U.S. EPA, she participated on the award-winning national Acid Rain Program Implementation team. In addition, Ms. Simon led the Environmental Technical Group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and was President of the Boston Section of the Society of Women Engineers.
Tedd Saunders
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Tedd Saunders
E2 Chapter Director
Tedd Saunders is CSO of The Saunders Hotel Group, and Co-Owner of hotels along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. Mr. Saunders is often credited with pioneering the integration of sustainable business methods into the luxury hotel industry worldwide and has been recognized for his innovative sustainable business models in the world's largest service industry – travel and tourism. Mr. Saunders has advised The White House, HRH The Prince of Wales' Business Leaders Forum, Harvard University, Taj Hotels of India, Choice Hotels International and hotel properties around the globe. Under his leadership, SHG has earned many prestigious awards including the United States Presidential Gold Medal, Energy Star Partner of The Year, and British Airways' Tourism for Tomorrow Prize. Author of The Bottom Line of Green is Black, his team's groundbreaking work has also earned feature stories for clients in The New York Times, CNN, Travel + Leisure, NBC News, and Conde Nast Traveler. Mr. Saunders serves on a variety of boards, including Harvard's School of Public Health, The Jane Goodall Institute, CERES, UCS, the New England Chapter of E2, and The Woods Hole Research Center. He speaks to business groups around the globe and meets with legislators to discuss how sound environmental policies are good for business and the economy.
Daniel Goldman
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Daniel Goldman
E2 Chapter Director
Daniel Goldman has over 25 years of energy industry experience, having been involved in over $4 billion of energy infrastructure and venture finance transactions. In November 2017 he co-founded Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a $100M early stage, advanced energy investment fund. CEV follows on from Mr. Goldman’s founding in 2005 of Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG), one of the most active early-stage clean energy investors. Prior to CEV, from 2006-16, he was president and CFO of GreatPoint Energy, a clean energy gasification company. Previously, Mr. Goldman was a founding partner at New Energy Capital, one of the first clean energy-focused private equity funds. Mr. Goldman holds advisory and board roles including co-founder and director of the New England Chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs; board director or observer at REsurety, SparkMeter, Quidnet Energy, 7AC Technologies and Zagster; and current vice-chair of the board of the Northeast Clean Energy Council. He received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and is a member of the External Advisory Board of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. He lives in Newton, MA with his family and dog, and is a competitive masters’ road cyclist and world qualifying triathlete
Haskell Werlin
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Haskell Werlin
E2 Chapter Director
Haskell is the business development director at Solar Design Associates, an international renewable energy engineering and architecture firm based in Harvard. He is a member of the board and a co-founder of MassSolar, a non-profit solar policy advocacy and outreach organization established in 2014. Prior to SDA, Haskell was a solar project development with Solar Power Partners of California and has worked at both the US Department of Energy solar and Conservation Office under President Carter, and at the Massachusetts Executive office of Energy Resources under Governor King. Haskell lives in a solar powered home in Jamaica Plain and drives a solar powered electric vehicle.
Our Issues
- Raising our Climate Goal to 100% Renewable Energy
- Modernizing Our Transportation System
- Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition
- Putting a Price on Carbon
Our Work
- In April 2019, E2 released Clean Jobs Massachusetts, a report that details the growth of jobs in fields such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean vehicles across the Commonwealth
- E2 New England accomplishes much of its worth through its partnerships in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England, including through the Global Warming Solutions Act Transportation Working Group, the Alliance for Clean Energy Solutions, the Northeast Clean Energy Council, and Our Transportation Future
Recent Success
- Led business efforts to help pass legislation to increase the Commonwealth’s renewable
energy standard - Helped pass legislation to expand offshore wind along Massachusetts’ coast
- Helped pass legislation to improve the Commonwealth’s energy efficiency programs
- Led business efforts to advance regional greenhouse gas limits for vehicles in nine
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states
GET INVOLVED
Interested in learning more? Want to help us advance our clean energy goals from Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill?
Reach out to Eastern States Advocate Uchenna Bright to start receiving updates on supporting E2’s policy efforts in your area – including attending upcoming events, participating in advocacy campaigns, receiving our email newsletters, and more!
