New England Clean Energy Council

The Council is governed by an Executive Committee comprised of the following individuals:

Bruce Anderson, Chairman and President, Wilson Solarpower
Brad Bradshaw, President, Velerity
Nick d'Arbeloff, Vice President, EnerNOC (Co-Chair)
John P. DeVillars, Senior Vice President, TRC Companies Inc.
Rob Pratt, CEO, Energy Climate Solutions
Hemant Taneja, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners (Co-Chair)
Mitch Tyson, CEO, Advanced Electron Beams

More about the Executive Committee

Bruce Anderson, Chairman and President, Wilson Solarpower

Bruce Anderson was a founding co-chair of the New England Clean Energy Council and is co-founder, Chairman and President of Wilson Solarpower in Woburn, MA. Wilson is commercializing a modular, coal-competitive concentrated solar power (CSP) system based on two MIT clean energy technologies: an ultra-efficient industrial heat exchanger and an ultra-efficient microturbine. Wilson is one of four MIT-related spin-offs launched by Ignite Technology Ventures, which he co-founded in 2000 to start companies to commercialize MIT technologies. Bruce started his clean energy career in 1973 by completing his masters thesis at MIT on solar energy. Twelve years later, Bruce became the first recipient of the American Solar Energy Society’s “Lifetime Solar Contribution” Award. He was a founding director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (then the New England Solar Energy Association), authored the New York Times best seller The Solar Home Book and 7 other books, served on the National Advisory Board of the Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) and has twice testified to Congress on energy matters. Bruce ran for governor of New Hampshire in 1986. In 1990, with Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day in 1970, he co-founded Earth Day USA to transition the event to an annual one from a 10-year anniversary event. He has served as director of numerous national organizations and companies and recently was president of the MIT Alumni Club of Boston. Currently, he serves on the International Board of MIT’s Alumni Association.

Brad Bradshaw, President, Velerity

Mr. Bradshaw specializes in Growth Strategies, Marketing Strategy and Product Development, Mergers, Acquisition and Partnering, and Finance and Capital. Areas of expertise include Energy Services, Distributed Generation, Demand Response, Energy Management, Energy Storage, and Energy Distribution.

Previously, Mr. Bradshaw held senior level positions at several well known enterprises including Vice President of Marketing for NEON Communications, a $50 million communications company; Senior Director leading the utility practice at the Yankee Group, a widely known and respected research and consulting firm focused on advising energy companies on their telecommunications and Internet strategies; Senior Manager at Arthur D. Little, a global management consultancy advising energy companies on their growth strategies; and Manager of Business Development at DMC-Honeywell, an national utility and energy services company.

At NEON, revenues increased on an annualized basis from $7 million per year to over $25 million per year, with backlog more than doubling from $75 million to $200 million. At the Yankee Group, raised $250 million in capital for three companies, developed thirty business plans, and advised sixty energy and telecom companies on the telecommunications and Internet strategies. At Arthur D. Little, developed and implemented the growth strategy for a major utility company, resulting in building a $200 million business in two years.

Education includes MBA from Babson College, graduating with High Distinction, Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dartmouth College with a major in Engineering, and Phillips Exeter Academy.

Nick d'Arbeloff, Vice President, EnerNOC (Co-Chair)

Nick is Vice President of Enterprise Management at EnerNOC and Co-Chair of the New England Clean Energy Council. Prior to joining EnerNOC, Nick d’Arbeloff was President of the New England Clean Energy Council. He is a veteran entrepreneur, having held senior positions in a number of technology companies and start-ups over the past 20 years. Before joining the Council, he was the CEO and founder of Conjoin, a developer of sales productivity software for corporate sales teams. The company was acquired by Intranets.com (subsequently acquired by WebEx). Previously, Nick co-founded and served as VP Marketing for Wildfire Communications, which brought to market a voice recognition-based electronic assistant for managing all of an individual’s telephone activities. Wildfire was acquired by Orange PLC, now a subsidiary of France Telecom. Nick also served as Vice President of Marketing for C-bridge Internet Solutions, Director of Marketing for PRI Automation, and Product Manager for Apollo Computer. Nick is a representative of The Climate Project, trained by former Vice President Al Gore to educate audiences about the science underlying global climate change. He serves on the Board of the Carlisle Conservation Foundation and the Mass Audubon Council. He is also the author of Excessive Entanglement, a novel, published in 2008. Nick holds a BA from Georgetown University.

John P. DeVillars, TRC Companies Inc.

John P. DeVillars is a Senior Vice President at TRC Companies Inc. He is the founder of BlueWave Strategies, where he served as Partner, and is Managing Partner of its affiliated investment group, BlueWave Capital.

From 2000 to 2003, Mr. DeVillars served as the Executive Vice President of Brownfields Recovery Corporation (“BRC”), a Boston-based real estate investment and development company that focuses on environmentally impaired properties. He remains very active in BRC’s current development projects including– a 1200-acre industrial port facility in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands – where, among other services, BlueWave is involved in site planning, project management, permitting, and the incorporation of green building standards and the use of renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass) and other sustainability measures.

From 1994 to 2000, Mr. DeVillars served as the New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he directed the operations of 800 employees and a $400 million annual budget. Under his leadership EPA New England was recognized as a national leader in smart growth, regulatory reform, environmental technology, and brownfields development, winning more awards for successful reform than any other EPA office. Mr. DeVillars led EPA's efforts in achieving precedent-setting environmental settlements with the United States Departments of Defense, Air Force and National Guard; General Electric and Pfizer Corporations; New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts Departments of Transportation; and numerous municipal governments throughout New England.

Mr. DeVillars previously served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and Chief of Operations for Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. From 1991 to 1994, he was Director of the Environmental Services Group for Coopers & Lybrand where he initiated and led the firm’s environmental management systems group. He has received numerous awards for his environmental service, including the President’s Award of the Nature Conservancy, given annually for national leadership in environmental affairs.

Mr. DeVillars holds an MPA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Board of Directors of Clean Harbors, Inc., Alteris Renewables, Inc. and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust as well as several other privately held energy and environmental corporations and non-profit organizations. Mr. DeVillars was a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's Energy and Environment Transition Working Group. From 1999 to 2003 Mr. DeVillars held the position of Lecturer in Environmental Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continues to lecture at MIT, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government.

Rob Pratt, CEO, Energy Climate Solutions

Rob Pratt is the founder, Chairman and CEO of EnergyClimate Solutions (ECS), a company dedicated to helping colleges and universities become climate leaders while reducing energy, water and infrastructure costs. Mr. Pratt was formerly the founder, Chairman and CEO of Energia Global International (EGI, now Enel Latin America), a company that became one of the leading renewable energy companies in Central America. From a startup in 1991, EGI became the largest private power company in Costa Rica through the development, financing and construction of high head hydroelectric and wind projects, the Cambridge Energy Alliance as well as assisted in developing efficiency programs in New York City and in the Southeast US. He also served as Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, a $250 million state fund to promote the development of renewable energy as well as clean energy economic development in MA. In the 1990s, Mr. Pratt founded and for 10 years served as the Chairman & CEO of Energia Global International, Ltd. (now Enel Latin America), one of the largest renewable energy development companies in Central America. Energia Global became the largest private power company in Costa Rica through the development and construction of high head hydroelectric and wind projects, with substantial power and distribution assets in Guatemala, El Salvador and Chile.

Rob is a national and regional leader in clean energy and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the American Council on Renewable Energy; Chairman, founder (1984) and board member of the International Institute for Energy Conservation; Treasurer and board member of the Alliance to Save Energy; Executive Committee and board member of the New England Clean Energy Council; and President and board member of the Cambridge Energy Alliance. He received an MPA degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.

Hemant Taneja, Managing Director,General Catalyst Partners (Co-Chair)

Hemant is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the New England Clean Energy Council. As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Hemant invests in technology-intensive software, hardware and services in clean energy and internet communications. He is a Board member of Humedica, Hunch, Lumenz, Mascoma, Modular Wind, Sand9 and Stion.

Hemant is also the co-founder and Chairman of Sunborne Energy, a General Catalyst portfolio company that is focused on commercializing utility scale solar power in India.

Previously, Hemant also served on the Board of SiteAdvisor, a General Catalyst investment that was acquired by McAfee (MFE) in April 2006. Before joining General Catalyst in 2002, Hemant was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Isovia, a Boston-based mobile software and applications company that was acquired by JP Mobile (MOT) in 2001.

Hemant is the co-founder & Chairman of the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC.org), a non-profit, focused on advancing New England's clean energy economy to global leadership. The U.S. Department of Energy presented the Energy Innovator Award to the Council in 2008 for its successful execution.

Hemant is also on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-public agency, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit organization focused on helping entrepreneurs, and the GreenLight Fund, which catalyzes the replication and growth of innovative non-profits.

Hemant holds an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering; all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mitch Tyson, CEO, Advanced Electron Beams

Mitch Tyson joined Advanced Electron Beams as CEO and Director in October 2005.

AEB enables the green factory of the future by making sustainable manufacturing possible and profitable. AEB's compact electron beam emitters replace thermal and chemical processes for cleaner, more efficient, lower-cost manufacturing. For industries such as pharmaceutical, medical devices, food and beverage packaging, printing, and plastics, AEB emitters sterilize products and packaging, improve the performance of plastics and other materials, cure inks and coatings and eliminate pollution.

Prior to joining AEB, Mitch was a corporate consultant and lecturer, serving on corporate and non-profit boards of directors, and advising early stage companies and venture capital firms. Previously, Mitch served as the CEO of PRI Automation, a public company that supplied factory automation solutions to the semiconductor industry. Mitch managed the growth of PRI from $4 million to over $300 million in revenue and guided the company through a successful IPO in 1994 and an acquisition by Brooks Automation in 2002. Prior to PRI, Mitch worked in marketing and product management roles at GCA Corporation and served as science advisor and legislative assistant for energy to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas.

Mitch is a co-founder of the New England Clean Energy Council, serving on the Executive Committee and heading the CEO Council. He also serves on the Executive and Governing Boards of John Adams Innovation Institute, the board of the Mass High Technology Council, the UMASS High Tech Executive Council, the Massport Security Advisory Council, and the board of the Progressive Business Leaders Network. Mitch also serves on the board of Photronics, Inc., a manufacturer of photomasks for the flat panel display and semiconductor industries.

In October 2008, the Mass High Tech Journal named Mitch a Mass High Tech All-Star for his leadership in and commitment to the clean energy sector.

Mitch has a Bachelors of Science in Physics, a Masters of Science in Nuclear Engineering, and a second Masters of Science in Political Science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.