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Lee Stevens - Vice President of Business Development

Lee Stevens brings innovative approaches to sustainability by blending the ENERGY STAR® approach to energy management strategies with her 15-year experience in corporate finance and marketing to develop energy efficiency solutions that meet clients’ investment criteria and profitability goals. Working with the utility industry and several commercial sectors, Lee has developed unique energy management and financing strategies for her clients.

Lee believes investment in energy efficiency can be evaluated in the same manner as competing capital projects and therefore the same due diligence and the similar risk adjustment on potential cash flow estimations must be properly applied. The time value of money of savings beyond the inital year should be quantified and properly discounted in the multi-year positive stream of cash flows.

In 2008, she joined Emerging Technologies Associates as a project coordinator on the assessment of a DDC-based HVAC control technology for hotel guest rooms.

Lee began working with the ENERGY STAR program four ago. She immediately adopted the energy management strategies and the totally self contained energy management program that ENERGY STAR brings to the market. Many of her clients have been successfully at reducing their energy use with Lee's help in establishing quantifiable baselines in their building's consumption. Four buildings totally three million square feet excluding parking received the ENERGY STAR labels. She embraces the whole building approach used by the program to reduce energy use and has trained a large hospital group as well as a Fortune 100 client on the ENERGY STAR program and its benefits.

The three investor-owned California utility companies engaged Daryl DeJean and Lee to develop a statewide market drivers and financing energy efficiency projects training and certification program, The California Advanced Lighting Control Training Program (CALCTP). The CALTP program created for the electrical contracting industry has received national recognition as an innovative Green Workforce Development initiative and was awarded in January, 2010 a Federal Grant to expand the program beyond the State of California. Lee developed and teaches the " Financing Energy Efficiency Projects" module of the course statewide. Please refer to the CALCTP current schedule for past and upcoming seminars.

Three years ago, she assisted Hilton Hotels Corporation in evaluating and implementing a new ozone based-technology that saved water, natural gas, electricity and supplies at the same time in a pilot test: the technology was adopted by the chain. She coordinated a pilot study at a Hilton property that led to the development of a case study. Hilton Hotels Case Study

Lee was interviewed for an article published in the Sacramento Business Journal, Room (for greener) service by Robert Celaschi June 20, 2008, at the request of University of California Davis - California Lighting Technology Center to describe trends in the adoption of energy efficiency technologies in the hotel industry. The link to the article is http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/06/23/focus2.html .

In her capacity as Vice President in charge of New Product Development at Bank of America Strategic Planning & Development Department, she was intrumental in developing strategic new products and systems that gave the Bank a competitive advantage as the deregulation of the financial services industry set in. As a member of the team sent to Seattle to develop the Pacific Northwest market, Lee worked with the Bank's senior management during the acquisition of Seafirst Bank in migrating new banking products between parent and subsidiary while helping facilitate the merging of different corporate cultures: the acquisition was one of Bank of America's most profitable and successful acquisitions. While with First Interstate Bank 's Merchant Banking Group, Lee developed creative relationship-enhancing strategies with key Fortune 500 companies.

Lee received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, Mass. and her Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York. Lee is a voting member of ASTM International and a member of Product Development Management Association.

Lee is a voting member of ASTM International E60 Committee for Sustainability which is a global joint Sustainability initiative led by industry, government and end-user. A video is available on the ASTM International E60 Committee video link at, http://www.astm.org/COMMIT/COMMITTEE/E60.htm.

In 2008, Lee participated in the first Green Meetings Initiative led by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC). The Green Meeting Industry Council, the Convention Industry Council, the Environmental Protection Agency, and ASTM International joined forces in 2008 to develop universal environmental standards for the meetings and convention industry. Lee participated in the February 18, 2008 Green Meetings Standard work meeting. Pat Picariello, Standards Development, ASTM International reviewed the process of developing green meeting standards at http://meetingsnet.com/green_meetings/meeting_standard_time_0708/. As the Green Meeting Initiatives stakeholders joined forces with ASTM in 2009, Lee joined in 2009 the ASTM International E-60 formed to set sustainability standards for buildings worldwide. Dayl DeJean and Lee attended the first E-60 global meeting in Vancouver in 2009 and began working on several sub-committees as voting members.

In 2008, Kingport Corporation managed by Lee Stevens made a donation to support the Eco-E program Awards and the Green Pieces program at the University of California Donald Bren School of Environmental Sciences (Bren School) and Technology Management Program (TMP) at the UCSB College of Engineering. The Bren School and TMP created the nation's first program of study in Eco-Entrepreneurship (Eco-E) to launch an environmental solution from concept to market and promote environmental entrepreneurship and technology transfer. On March 14, The UCSB "Green Pieces" Group won a National Competition at the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C. (http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/academics/eco_entrepreneur.htm)

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Lee 's interest in the crucial connection between Energy and Water leads her to look for simple ways to recommend water and energy-savings steps to her clients . Her educational initiative includes volunteering countless hours working with communities, educational institutions and embracing ENERGY STAR at Home tips in teaching energy efficiency in the home.	Kicking off the year with a major hospital initiative, Lee and Daryl were invited to share knowledge about appplying the ENERGY STAR Buildings and Plants program at a monthly Energy Management meeting. The Directors of Engineering and senior manager are well on their way with a brand new building that earned ENERGY STAR in 2009.

Lee Stevens - Vice President of Business Development

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