Ms. Hossain joined SEPA in 2008, where she works on researching and managing projects, surveys and reports. Ms. Hossain`s background is varied from working for Friends of the Earth, an environmental NGO, to international work experience at BRAC in Bangladesh, to consulting for the World Wildlife Fund. She holds a Masters in Science from the London School of Economics in Environment and Development Studies, and a Bachelors degree from Alliant International University in Environmental Studies and International Business Administration.
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Mr. Krishnamoorthy joined SEPA at the beginning of 2010. He holds a Bachelors degree in Environmental Science at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and he is currently completing his Masters in Energy and Earth Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Krishnamoorthy's interest in solar energy started when he interned and later worked part-time for a solar electric design and installation company based in Austin, Texas. Working within the sales and marketing departments, he was able to gain valuable insight in small scale PV installations and PV rebate programs. He has also conducted research on concentrated solar power in the Middle East for his Masters thesis.
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Ms. Raper began working with SEPA in 2009, where she helps coordinate the educational programming for all of the associations' conferences and events. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Environmental Science and a minor in Art History. Before SEPA, Stuart participated in internship programs with Brodeur Partners in Washington, DC and the Department of Environmental Quality in Richmond, VA. She primarily assists the Director of Education and Research.
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Ms. Barth began working with SEPA in 2009, where she serves as SEPA's Policy Manager. Ms. Barth worked most recently as a Policy Officer at the World Future Council in Hamburg, Germany, where she dealt with climate and renewable energy policy issues on an international level. In that capacity, she closely collaborated with SEPA to make the Solar Fact Finding Missions to Germany and Spain a big success. Before, she worked in different research projects at the Environmental Policy Research Centre in Berlin dealing with climate policies and providing policy advice on ecological industrial policy to the German Ministry of the Environment. She holds a Masters in Political Science from the Free University Berlin.
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Don Lintvet serves as SEPA's Director of Marketing and Communications.  Most recently,  Don (or "Lintvet" ) was co-founder of Marketsmart Partners,  a consulting firm focused on providing early-growth companies and large enterprises with best-of-class communications strategies .  Lintvet's energy industry experience includes roles as Vice President of Marketing for Pepco Energy Services and Vice President of Brand Marketing for EnergyOne, LLC.  Prior to his work in the energy services and deregulated electricity business, Lintvet was Vice President of Global Branding with Nortel Networks and Director of corporate-wide advertising and communications for MCI Communications.  Lintvet received his Masters Degree in advertising and strategic communications from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has served as an adjunct professor of undergraduate and graduate marketing with Marymount University, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business.
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Mr. Nicholas serves as SEPA's regional director for the Central US.  He has more than 20 years of executive level experience in the electric utility industry.  Tom worked for two utilities starting with Public Service Indiana, now Duke Energy Indiana, starting in Engineering, moving into the Operations area, field District Manager, Corporate Industrial Marketing and Economic Development, before joining Northern Indiana Public Service in the Corporate Marketing and Sales Manager roles, including both the regulated and unregulated sides of NISOURCE in Indiana.  More recently, Tom served as the Regional Operations Manager in the central US with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).  Tom has also served and chaired numerous EPRI and EEI utility committees.  Tom is a sought after speaker, speaking at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally.  Tom was also appointed in 2009 as an alternate, to the National Board of the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP).
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Ms. Kiener serves as SEPA's regional director for the Western US. She brings over 25 years experience in the electric utility industry in the areas of renewable resource portfolios, short and long term strategic planning, green house gas regulation, integrated resource planning, resource adequacy, FERC open access polices, and transmission planning, siting and certificate approval. Her focus has been on state and federal energy regulatory and policy implementation, and legislative issues for both public power and investor owned sectors. She has worked for both public power and investor owned utilities as well as doing stints with both a consumer advocate agency and a public service board.
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Ms. Burton serves as SEPA's regional director for the Eastern U.S. Ms. Burton is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) with over 15 years experience in the development, implementation and management of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs both in the U.S. and abroad. Her background stretches from Sandia National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy to the electric utility industry. Most recently, Sandra was the Managing Director of Utility Programs at SunEdison where she led the team that developed solar energy solutions for U.S. electric utilities. Before joining the SunEdison team, Ms. Burton served as the Principal Deputy Assistant with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, where she developed and launched Delaware's award winning Energy An$wers program. Ms. Burton has a B.S. in economics from the University of Utah, attended graduate school in applied economics at American University, Washington, D.C., and has an MBA from the University of Delaware. Email Sandra Burton