Girish has more than 28 years of experience in California utilities, most recently serving as the General Manager of Riverside Public Utilities (RPU). While at RPU, Girish initiated a number of innovative and collaborative processes focused on rebuilding aging water and electrical infrastructure, utilizing advanced technology to improve service delivery and customer satisfaction, developing the workforce to meet new skills needed in the utility of the future, and developing business models for the utility to adapt and thrive in an uncertain environment.

Girish got his start in public power as an analyst at the City of Pasadena Department of Water and Power. He then moved to Santa Clara County to work for City of Palo Alto Utilities as a Resource Planner. While at City of Palo Alto Utilities, Girish gained increasing levels of responsibility and moved into management as the Manager of Supply Resources, and eventually Assistant Director of Utilities, Resource Management.  

Girish became the General Manager of City of Alameda, Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) in 2007. As General Manager of AMP, Girish led a series of changes that resulted in AMP’s #1 rating in residential customer satisfaction after years of steady improvement, bond-rating increase from A- to A+, and selling a failing telecom system to end years of financial losses.

Immediately prior to joining SVCE, Don served as Executive Director of Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s Smart Energy Enterprise Development Initiative (SEEDZ), involving a regional coalition of leading business, governmental, institutional and utility stakeholders focused on advancing energy system performance and sustainability in Silicon Valley. Projects included workplace and destination electric vehicle charging infrastructure, regional power quality monitoring, distributed energy storage and community-based renewable energy programs.

Don’s private sector background includes 22 years with Accenture. As a Managing Partner, he was instrumental in building and leading the firm’s business systems integration consulting practice in Silicon Valley.  He also co-founded and led AltaTerra Research, a market research and consulting firm focused on clean technology solutions for the enterprise marketplace.

Within the community, Don helped define and launch the Bay Area Climate Collaborative, a region-wide public-private partnership addressing regional sustainability goals. In his hometown of Los Altos, California, he serves on the City’s Environmental Commission, and is a past Chair and Vice-Chair.

Don received a Masters Degree in Engineering Management from Stanford University, and Bachelor’s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Davis.

Dennis’ energy sector background spans more than 20 years, including experience in the late 1990’s with Go-Green.com, an Electric Service Provider (predecessor program to Community Choice Energy program). He began his energy career with the California Energy Commission, and has worked for an energy services company providing environmental registry and CAISO scheduling coordination services and software solutions. Immediately prior to joining SVCE, Dennis spent over a decade with a local electric utility, managing power supply contract performance and reporting, invoicing, project development, dispute resolution, contract amendments, and voluntary carbon offset and renewable energy credit tracking.

Dennis has a master’s degree in economics from University of California, Davis.

Don is responsible for arranging financing to support energy contracts, preparing budgets and financial forecasts, overseeing SVCE’s risk management processes, administration and evaluation of information technology and human resource needs, and supporting the Board of Directors in their oversight of SVCE’s financial condition and opportunity.

Don brings 20 years of energy industry experience in various financial roles serving Investor Owned Utilities, Independent Power Producers and Municipal Owned Utilities with the last 10 years in a Senior Leadership role in the public sector.  Experience includes rate setting, risk management, budgeting and forecasting, contracts administration, debt management and financial oversight. Don received a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Southern California. Don is a Certified Government Finance Officer, Certified Energy Risk Professional and a Certified Public Power Manager through the American Public Power Association.

Stephanie brings over 19 years of public sector experience. She has worked for the Town of Los Gatos as a Budget Analyst in Finance, City of Santa Clara as an Analyst/Program Manager in the Housing and Community Services Division, and most recently as a Management Analyst for the City of Gilroy’s Community Development and Public Works Departments. Stephanie earned bachelor degrees in political science and psychology from the University of Southern California and a Masters of Public Administration from San Jose State University.

Kelly graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz in the spring of 2017 with a combined major of Environmental Studies and Economics. She is passionate about environmental justice issues on a local level, and cultivating sustainable development through community resiliency projects.

Prior to joining SVCE, Pamela served as Communications Specialist for Prospect Silicon Valley where she was responsible for developing messaging, collateral, managing the website, coordinating events and social media content.

Pamela worked as an account executive for Westbound Communications, a public relations agency conducting community and digital outreach, special events and marketing for the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project. Pamela also served as Director of Communications and Marketing for Orange County Coastkeeper, a clean water non-profit organization. Pamela earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and drama, with a minor in global sustainability from UC Irvine.

Prior to joining SVCE, Sarah Jo was Center Manager at Stanford’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, where she led operations, financial administration, and communications and outreach. Sarah Jo also served as Special Projects Manager on Stanford’s ARPA-E funded Sensor Technology and Behavior Change Initiative, where she built the Reference Energy Disaggregation Dataset (REDD), a preeminent dataset in the nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) community. Before joining the ARPA-E team, Sarah Jo managed research and administration for world-renowned climate scientist, Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, at Stanford’s Woods Institute. Sarah Jo received a B.A. in Biology from Colorado College, and an M.S. focused on grid decarbonization from Stanford’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Department.

Thomas graduated from Sonoma State University in the spring of 2017 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Energy Management & Design.  Prior to joining SVCE, he worked as an intern in the Power Services Department at Sonoma Clean Power overseeing energy and capacity contracts, settlement details, and compliance filings.

Peyton comes to Silicon Valley Clean Energy most recently from SolarCity where he served in a range of sales, account management, and technical support roles. He is most proud of having deployed over a megawatt of solar capacity in his time there. A life-long resident of the South County, Peyton attended San Jose State University and earned a B.A. in Philosophy.

Andrea earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from San Jose State University.

Hilary joins SVCE from Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. located in San Francisco where she was involved in several projects including greenhouse gas emissions modeling, rate design, energy resource valuation and regulatory briefings. Hilary earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and a Masters of Environmental Science from Yale, where she majored in energy economics.

Prior to joining SVCE, John developed a broad-based knowledge of various renewable energy and energy efficiency measures. Most recently, he worked for local fuel cell manufacturer, Bloom Energy, as the Incentives Operation Program Manager. Before that, he was in Washington DC running the Account Management team and developing programs for the DC Sustainable Energy Utility to support the largest energy users in the Capital with energy efficiency, solar, and workforce development. He was a Program Manager on the California Solar Initiative (CSI) for the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) servicing the San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) territory. His solar knowledge came from selling solar directly to residential and commercial customers as well to contractors across the US. He began his energy career more than 15 years ago managing channel sales for a micro-wind turbine manufacturer. He is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and received his undergraduate degree from UCLA.

Climate Corps is a 10-month program within California, offering professional development for emerging climate action fellows to work on community climate action within local governments, colleges, businesses and non-profit settings.

As a program development fellow, Victoria researches grant opportunities and conducts research for power supply contracting. She is developing outreach tools and assisting in public affairs and marketing.

Victoria previously worked in the Department of Housing(HUD) in their Office of Economic Resilience and the Office of Program Monitoring and Research Development regarding their sustainability grant program and HUD’s Mapping Initiative in their Climate Change Action Plan in D.C. Most recently, she has worked within the commercial real estate sector in the Bay Area. Victoria has a Bachelor’s of Science in Community Regional Development and a minor in GIS and Economics from UC Davis.

Nik brings over 20 years of IT experience. He has worked for a large Silicon Valley tech company for the past 16 years performing many different roles, most recently as IT manager. Nik earned his bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University.