Our Board

Chris Burmester
Chief Strategy Officer
Energy Solutions
CEDMC Board Chair
Board Term: 2026-2027

Chris is Chief Operating Officer at Energy Solutions overseeing company operations and strategy and the delivery of utility and governmental services in demand side management, distributed energy resources, building codes and appliance standards, and decarbonization. With 30+ years of clean energy, high technology, and software industry experience, Chris has extensive domain expertise in sustainability, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Through his long California industry tenure and work in many different regulatory environments nationwide, Chris brings seasoned and diverse perspectives to the CEDMC Board to help advance state and national initiatives to support the growth of our industry in California.

Kim Rodriguez
Vice President, Solutions Delivery
Resource Innovations
CEDMC Vice Chair
Board Term: 2025-2026

Kim Rodriquez is a passionate green advocate, with 25 years of utility experience and 15 years dedicated to demand-side management. Her leadership and strategic focus have helped grow large portfolios of energy efficiency programs ranging from small business and Low Income to large Commercial and Public Sector. She brings with her over four years’ experience participating on the CEDMC board in various roles including Treasurer and currently as Chairperson.  She has helped to craft and implement the CEDMC Strategic Plan and provides expert guidance on key topics important to our members.

Ms. Rodriguez is currently with Resource Innovations and oversees Solutions Delivery for the Western Region.  She leads Resource Innovations’ growing portfolio of programs and works closely with industry partners and program administrators to identify new opportunities to innovate in the energy sector.

She holds a BA in Business Administration & Management, and an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from CSU San Bernardino.

Matt O’Keefe
Head of Opower
Oracle Utilities
CEDMC Board Treasurer
Board Term: 2025-2026
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Matt O’Keefe is the Head of Opower at Oracle Utilities. In this role, Matt leads the teams that work with Opower’s customers to develop and implement energy efficiency, demand response, affordability, and customer engagement projects. Opower’s work with utility and governmental customers has resulted in 40 TWhs of energy savings across gas and electricity programs worldwide.
Prior to joining Opower, Matt worked at the California Energy Efficiency Industry Council where he worked with leaders of energy efficiency businesses, investor-owned utilities, and regulatory bodies to expand and stabilize the market for efficiency-focused companies. Prior to his work at the Efficiency Council, he held various positions in municipal government, non-profits, politics, and education. Matt’s work focused on the intersection of clean technology, government, and business. Matt is a former Teach For America corps member, and has degrees from UCLA and George Washington University.

Andrea Marr
Senior Vice President
Cadmus
CEDMC Secretary
Board Term: 2025-2026

Andrea Marr leads Cadmus’ energy services division. She has effectively led energy-focused business units and practices and headed engagements for planning and delivering energy efficiency programs across the Commercial and Industrial sectors. Andrea’s diverse background spans multiple sectors of the clean energy economy and she has worked with utilities, commercial, and industrial clients on issues relating to decarbonization and the future of the electric grid.

Before joining Cadmus, Andrea was the vice president of industrial energy at Willdan Energy Solutions, growing the business and developing a new strategic roadmap to make inroads into new markets. At Willdan, she also served as the principal in charge of more than $500 million of work for electric and gas utilities and as a project manager for sustainability, smart cities, renewables, and energy efficiency projects. Andrea previously founded her own sustainability consulting firm, Wedge Consulting, where she provided energy audits, assessments, and strategic planning for five universities in Southern California and oversaw energy efficiency construction projects. Following Wedge’s acquisition by Regatta Solutions, Andrea served as Regatta’s vice president of energy services with a focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and launched a new consultative sustainability practice.

Andrea holds a doctorate in leadership with a focus on organizational management from the University of San Diego and a master’s degree in engineering management from Old Dominion University. She earned a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and spent five years in the U.S. Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer (Nuclear). In 2013, Andrea received the Champion of Change Award from the White House for her work in energy as a veteran. She is active with Team Red, White & Blue, a veterans’ organization that creates camaraderie for veterans and their families through physical activity.

Nancy Barba
Portfolio Director
Frontier Energy
Board Term: 2026-2027

Nancy Barba, she/her, is a seasoned leader in California’s energy efficiency and decarbonization space, with over a decade of experience designing, launching, and managing large-scale programs for Regional Energy Networks (REN), Community Choice Aggregators (CCA) and utilities. As a Portfolio Director at Frontier Energy, she blends technical expertise with strategic stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and equitable market transformation. Nancy has led statewide contractor engagement strategies, overseen communications and outreach plans, and coordinated multi-channel efforts across initiatives like TECH Clean California, 3C-REN, I-REN, and NREN.

In addition to program delivery, Nancy has deep experience organizing and managing strategic events—from high-impact contractor forums and stakeholder roundtables to statewide trainings and executive briefings. She has overseen event production for multi-
utility committees and emerging technologies showcases, and she understands how to create convenings that drive alignment, collaboration, and momentum across diverse market actors. Nancy brings to the CEDMC Board a rare blend of regulatory insight, community engagement, and hands-on experience in facilitating the conversations that move California’s clean energy future forward.

Cody Coeckelenbergh
Vice President
ICF
Board Term: 2026-2027

Cody is the senior director over ICF’s Utility and Program Services for the West region where he leads the delivery of all energy programs for regional clients. He has over 15 years of experience designing, administering, and implementing California energy programs for regulated utilities and regional energy networks. His work has included utility and regulatory affairs for clients, leading consumer engagement, managing implementer and utility partnerships, and overseeing the cost-effective delivery of existing and new programs. Cody has served as a technical advisor to successful legislation in California, participated in dozens of CPUC working groups, spoken at various CPUC and PA forums, and presented with clients at multiple national conferences.

Yeshpal Gupta, Ph.D.
President
Lincus
Board Term: 2025-2026

Dr. Yeshpal Gupta brings over 16 years of experience working in energy efficiency sector, having held various engineering roles supporting the custom, meter-based, and deemed platforms. He is also an accredited lead verifier for Greenhouse Gas and Low Carbon Fuel Standard programs in California, Washington, and Oregon. As President of Lincus, Inc. and its 100% owned subsidiary Solaris-Technical, Dr. Gupta leads the company’s EE program development & implementation, engineering services, business growth, and corporate strategy in collaboration with the Lincus Board of Directors and staff.

Dr. Gupta began his career with Lincus as an engineering intern in 2008 and has since contributed to the development and evaluation of thousands of energy-efficiency projects, integrated energy audits, deemed Measure Packages, and greenhouse gas verification audits. He has extensive expertise in building energy simulation modeling tools such as eQuest, EnergyPro, and various other energy and demand savings calculators.

Throughout his career, Dr. Gupta has collaborated with stakeholders, including utilities, regulators, program implementers, and customers, to address energy efficiency program/policy challenges. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented at ASME, ACEEE, and renewable energy conferences.

Dr. Gupta holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University, along with a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Amit Kanungo
Vice President
DNV
Board Term: 2026-2027

Amit Kanungo is Vice President at DNV’s Energy Systems group. He is one of DNV’s lead on demand side resource customer engagement in California and other states addressing their demand side issues ranging from resource planning, program design/delivery, implementation, and evaluation. Amit has more than 20 years of experience in technical consulting in energy efficiency and renewable industries, with the last 18 years in the energy evaluation industry directing program and portfolio evaluations in California and across the US. Amit leads DNV’s Evaluation, Measurement and Verification (EM&V) practice and currently manages the California custom EM&V contract. In this role, he provides strategic and advisory services to the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) in evaluating California Utilities energy efficiency and electrification programs. Prior to managing the CPUC’s EM&V custom contract, Amit was engaged with the Department of Energy (DOE), California Energy Commission (CEC), CA program administrators, Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) at various capacities in evaluating energy efficiency programs since 2006. Amit is passionate about sustainability and always seeking creative solutions to the climate crisis. Amit holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from California State University, San Francisco.

 Gina Melekh
Director of Business Development
Franklin Energy
Board Term: 2026-2027

Gina Melekh is a seasoned energy industry leader with over a decade of experience driving strategic growth and innovation in demand-side management, both in utility and energy efficiency program implementor setting. In her role as Director of Business Development at Franklin Energy, Gina leads market expansion efforts across the Pacific U.S., forging partnerships and developing integrated program strategies that advance energy efficiency, electrification, and grid resilience.

Her career spans roles in business development, program design, operations, and management with a strong focus on aligning utility’s goals with community needs. Prior to her engagement in clean energy space, Gina completed ten years in global banking before deciding that she would rather be a part of the solution, not the problem, in our modern world. An immigrant to the USA, Gina chose California as her new home and is proud to spend her career protecting the State’s beauty and natural resources.

Gina is passionate about inclusive energy solutions and mentors emerging professionals in the sustainability space through her engagement with EDF ClimateCore program. She holds a BA in Economics and Finance from Northwestern College IA, and MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School, San Francisco. 

Abhijeet Pande
Vice President, Research and Technology Commercialization
TRC
Board Term: 2026-2027

Abhijeet Pande brings expertise and over 20 years of experience in the fields of energy efficient design, building science research and energy policy. Mr. Pande leads TRC’s Research and Technology Commercialization group, a team that focuses on maximizing energy savings through developing holistic approaches that combine innovative energy efficiency solutions, emerging technologies, demand response, renewable energy generation, and other distributed energy resources. In this role, Mr. Pande applies his expertise to direct development of technical analyses and market studies in support of energy policy, program design, energy analysis, codes and standards enhancements, emerging technologies, evaluation, and occupant comfort research and analysis.

Mr. Pande has an MS in Building Design from Arizona State University, and is the past Chair of ASHRAE SSPC 55 and a member of the UC Berkeley Center for the Built Environment’s Industry Coalition. He is also a frequent speaker and contributor to leading industry forums/conferences such as those held by American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), and ASHRAE.

Olivia Patterson
Senior Vice President
Opinion Dynamics (an E Source Company)
Board Term: 2026-2027

With nearly 15 years at Opinion Dynamics, Olivia has vast experience in load flexibility, rates, and emerging technologies. She has led numerous large-scale evaluations across residential and commercial sectors, focusing on integrating impact and process research into actionable recommendations. She has also advanced methodologies to assess the integrated nature of demand-side interventions and tackle complex evaluation challenges. 

Olivia’s work in California includes the evaluation of the PG&E SmartRateTM CPP and the Electric Vehicle Automated Demand Response study, where she managed vendor relationships and assessed the scalability of managed charging activities. She is experienced in managing metering and market transformation research, notably for California’s Clean Heating Initiative and heat pump energy savings assessments for PG&E. Olivia also has expertise in Population NMEC, contributing to evaluations such as the CPUC impact evaluation for On-Bill Financing.. Additionally, Olivia advises on California’s decarbonization pilots, BUILD and TECH, focusing on program processes and impacts, and has extensive experience evaluating California’s Emerging Technologies Program.

Olivia plays key leadership roles with the Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA), including serving on the Board and co-chairing the Load Flexibility Valuation Strategic Initiative, as well as teaching evaluation methods through PLMA trainings. 

Laurel Rothschild
Vice President
The Energy Coalition
Board Term: 2025-2026

As Vice President, Laurel oversees The Energy Coalition’s diverse portfolio of programs and collaborates with stakeholders across the state to advance our mission of empowering communities to leap into the future of clean energy. She has nearly 20 years of experience working with public agencies and community partners to promote climate action through various programs. Laurel is a current California Energy Efficiency Coordinating Committee (CAEECC) member, a Board Member of the Association of Women in Water Energy and the Environment (AWWEE), a Certified Energy Auditor (CEA), and a LEED AP O+M. She holds a B.A. in business economics from UCSB.

Amul Sathe
Director
Guidehouse
Board Term: 2025-2026

Amul Sathe is a Director in Guidehouse’s Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure segment and part of its Western US market leadership team. Amul has 15 years of industry experience in DER programs, policies, technologies, and markets. working with leading governmental agencies, U.S. energy utilities, and water utilities. He currently directs all of Guidehouse’s work for state energy agencies in California. Amul oversees the development of forecasting models, analytical tools, evaluation studies, and market studies that are used by California state agencies to inform energy policy and planning decisions in the 5th largest economy in the world. He’s led the CPUC’s energy efficiency forecasting efforts for nearly a decade to inform multiple regulatory and planning processes. He’s also directed the team that provides technology and market research support to the state’s $100M/year energy RD&D program.

Siva Sethuraman
Senior Director of Business Development
Cascade Energy
Board Term: 2025-2026

Siva Sethuraman is an accomplished leader in energy-efficiency and demand-side management programs, with an innate ability to find connections and anticipate customer needs. His 20-year career in the energy sector has spanned functional areas ranging from program design and strategy to product development to sales and account management.

As Cascade’s lead for utility engagement, Siva works to build strong relationships with Cascade’s existing and prospective utility clients and develop new business opportunities. He also manages the launch, scaling, and stabilization of Cascade’s new industrial and agricultural programs across California. Prior to joining Cascade in 2017, Siva led the industrial and agricultural energy-efficiency programs and the high-tech and buildings accounts groups at Pacific Gas and Electric for several years. He currently serves on the ISO 50001 Technical Advisory Group and is also an active volunteer judge for Cleantech Open’s Energy Startup Accelerator program.

Personal Facts
Siva grew up with no television, no refrigerator, no phone, and no car until he was ten years old. With a truly entrepreneurial spirit, he loves watching Shark Tank with his kids and previously worked with the team that developed the world’s first jet fuel-based fuel cell-powered generation system.

Credentials
MBA, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
MS, Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

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