Our Team

CET Team

Abbey Massaro

Waste Reduction Consultant

Abby Lessels (She/her)

Communication Coordinator

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Andrea Villamaino

Program Consultant

Anjie Moctezuma

Sales Associate

Anthony Rauls

Sales Associate

Anthony Rubino

Commercial Energy Consultant

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Ashley Muspratt (She/her)

President

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Autumn Davis

EcoFellow

Azra Siddiqui (She/her)

Executive Assistant

Ben Coe

Energy & Waste Diversion Consultant

Brett Belcastro

Program Consultant

Brittany Richard

Residential Energy Consultant

CJ Hanley (He/him)

Residential Energy Consultant

Caitlin Davis

Executive Assistant

Caroline Coppola

Program Consultant

Cassie Rogers

Program Consultant

Chad Simmons

Residential Energy Consultant

Christina Bicksler

Chief Operating Officer

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Coryanne Mansell

Strategic Partnership Coordinator

Craig Powers

Residential Energy Consultant

Darcy Ratti

Retail Operations Manager

Edison Dika

Energy Consultant

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Emily Fabel

IT Business Systems Partner

Emily Gaylord (She/her)

Director of Communications & Relationship Development

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Emma Sabella

Waste Reduction Consultant

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Emma Thomas

Customer Relationship Representative

Freya Bromwich

Material Recovery & Donations Consultant

Heather Billings

Senior Waste Reduction Consultant

Ilsa McIntyre

Department Manager, Technical Services

Jae McAuley

Director of Retail Operations and Programs

James Lewis

Lead Commercial Energy Consultant

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Jamie Overby

Residential Energy Consultant, PT

Jane Tekin

Residential Energy Consultant

Jeff Horton

Program Consultant

Jena Finnegan

Technical Services Supervisor

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John Celesk

Material Recovery & Donations Consultant

John Hopkins II

Truck Driver

John Saveson

HERS Consultant

Josh Enderle

Waste Reduction Consultant

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Kacie Dean

Department Manager, Program Delivery

Kaitlyn Mitchell

Communication Coordinator

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Karina Gaft-Azcue

Interim Program Manager

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Katie Barnes

EcoFellow

Khrysti Smyth

Lead Customer Relationship Representative

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Kimberly Hunter

Project Manager

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Laura Pavlot (They/them)

Program Manager

Lauren Holway

Salesforce Administrator

Lauren Potter (She/her)

Program Manager

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Leeba Morse (She/her)

Grants and Contracts Specialist

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Lia Douillet

HERS Consultant

Lilly Hoch

Project Manager

Lisa Dufour (She/her)

Director of People & Culture

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Lisa Kohler

Director of Technical Services & Program Delivery

Lisa Pellegrino

Waste Reduction Consultant

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Lorenzo Macaluso

Chief Growth Officer

Malik Rodriguez

Truck Driver

Mark Newey

Senior Building Scientist

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Mark O'Hearne

Energy Engineer

Mark Whalen (He/him)

Business Applications Manager

Marrina Gallant (She/her)

Program Manager

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Matt Zarotny

Senior Building Scientist

Max Morrisey Tarburton

Assistant Warehouse Manager

Megan Denardo

Program Consultant

Mike Murdock

Commercial Energy Consultant

Nancy Cazalis

Communication Coordinator

Nick DiVito

Waste Reduction Consultant

Olivia Ahner (She/her)

Program Consultant

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Paul Smith

Department Manager, Sales Operations

Reggie Eleazer

Director of PMO

Robert Williams

Residential Energy Consultant

Rusty Daniels

Customer Relationship Representative

Ryan Quinn

Warehouse & Receiving Associate

Sam Stroman

Residential Energy Consultant

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Samantha Salvatore (She/her)

Program Consultant

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Sharon Hoessler

Customer Relationship Representative

Sheila Kelliher (She/her)

Customer Relationship Representative

Sonja Williams

Program Consultant

Stephanie Swartz

Assistant Retail Manager

Steven Bandarra

Project Manager

Tara Carson

Lead Program Consultant

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Terrie Szymanski

Program Consultant

Thomas Turkowski

Shipping Coodinator

Victoria Phillips

Waste Reduction Consultant

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Board of Directors

Janet Warren, Chair

…is a retired professional whose three decades of experience in marketing, sales, and product development include being Director of Marketing at Fazzi Associates, Vice President of Marketing at Monson Savings Bank, President of her own consulting firm, MarCom Capital, and Second Vice President for Market Development at Phoenix Home Life. In addition to her role on CET’s Board, her community engagement activities have included serving on the most recent strategic planning committee for the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce and as a board member for the Chamber, the Hampshire County Regional Chamber, the Hampshire County Regional Tourism Council, and the United Way of Hampshire County.

Nancy Nylen, Vice Chair

…is an independent consultant and environmental educator, specializing in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and resource conservation. She recently retired from CET, where she worked for more than three decades on innovative programs focusing on local solutions to energy issues that benefit the economy, natural environment, and quality of life for community members. She began her career at the Alaska Division of Energy and Power Development in the late 1970’s and went on to work for state and regional non-profit organizations in Washington State, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. Nancy received a B.A. from Hampshire College and a Masters of Education with a concentration in science education from the University of Washington. Nancy serves on the Board of Directors of Energy Federation, Inc. and is a Board member emerita of the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation.

Nathaniel Tassinari, Treasurer

…is Regional Vice President for Western Massachusetts at TD Bank where he leads Commercial and Small Business Banking Teams. Nate has been with TD Bank for more than 15 years where he started after a varied career which included work in retail, hospitality, human services, technology, and publishing. Nate owns and manages Million Little Sunbeams, a solar development company which installed the first Agrivoltaic Solar Array approved under the SMART Solar program in Massachusetts. Nate is a graduate of Starting-Bloc Social Entrepreneurship, earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and East European Studies from Rutgers University, and received his Master’s Degree in European Studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Nate and his wife Ania have two boys and split their time between Boston and Western MA.

Jennifer Marrapese, Clerk

…is a community member and formerly the Director of Search Services for United Personnel, where she focuses on business development and search services for the nonprofit community in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and executive search for their professional division. Jennifer brings almost 10 years of experience in the sustainability arena, having served most recently as Executive Director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). Prior to joining NESEA, Jennifer served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Cox Communications and as an adjunct faculty member for the Executive Development Center at Bryant University. Jennifer has a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Organizational Management and Development from Fielding University, and a BA in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin. She serves on the Board of Directors for Camp Howe and the Deerfield, MA Local Cultural Council, and is a former board member of Big Sisters of Rhode Island. She lives with her family in a deep-energy-retrofitted ranch house in South Deerfield, MA.

Ruth Blodgett

…is a community member and former Senior Vice President for System Planning and Program Development at Berkshire Health Systems. She also served as its Chief Operating Officer from 1995 – 2001. Her community involvement includes serving as President of the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Board of Trustees, as well as being a member of Berkshire Priorities and Pittsfield Promise, and the Non-Profit Business Network Steering Committee. Ms. Blodgett received her MBA from the University of Chicago.

Bhargavi Chevva

…is Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at ReMo Energy, a developer of distributed scale green ammonia plants to make competitively priced fertilizers. Prior to ReMo, Bhargavi was a Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $2B climate tech venture firm. She worked in operations and finance roles at Roche and ExxonMobil, with experience in petroleum refining operations, engineering design, strategic financial and operational planning. Bhargavi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT.

Steve Davis

…is a Senior Trustee at the Irene E. and George A. Davis Foundation and former President and Chief Operating Officer of American Saw & Mfg. Company in East Longmeadow, MA. Beyond his service to the Davis Foundation, Steve Davis has a rigorous civic life and serves on the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, is a trustee of American International College, a trustee of the Springfield Symphony and is a former Director of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council.

Heather Merhi-Matthews

…started her career in the energy field in 2013 as a CET Energy Efficiency EcoFellow. Most recently, she is a Project Manager at Icetec Energy Services, a technology solutions provider which dispatches more than 200 MW of distributed generation in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic energy markets. She also continues in her role as Director of Operations at Next Grid Markets, a leading MA-based alternative and renewable energy certificate aggregator, which she has been involved in since the company’s formation in 2017. In her prior role at an environmental engineering consulting company, she worked with municipal and institutional clients on energy and billing analysis, energy master planning and climate resiliency.

Heather is active in her local community, serving as Energy Subcommittee Chair on her town’s Sustainability Commission. Throughout all her roles she is driven by an interest in sustainability and exploring the ways in which companies and institutions can reduce their climate change impact. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology, with an Ecology concentration, from UMass Lowell in 2013.

Ashley Muspratt

Scott J. Soares

…is the owner of Boston Bay Consulting. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, he offers government relations services, business and project development, and management assistance to those working in agriculture, fisheries, and food systems. He has also served as USDA Rural Development State Director for Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Executive Director of the Cranberry Marketing Committee USA. Mr. Soares began his career at the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources where he held a variety of leadership positions including the Commonwealth’s first Aquaculture Program Director and culminating with a gubernatorial appointment as Commissioner of the Department in 2009. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Soares received a double major in Biology and Marine Biology from UMass Dartmouth and completed course work in aquaculture and fisheries at University of Rhode Island.

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