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Meet Yousef AbuGharbieh

Yousef AbuGharbieh is responsible for operational improvement and strategy for the organization

Yousef is also a Director at Modern Energy, an energy asset management firm which owns American Efficient. Prior to joining the team, Yousef was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company where he served software and hardware companies  on corporate finance and strategy issues.  Before McKinsey, he was an adviser and employee at several SaaS start-ups and analyst at multiple growth equity and venture capital firms. He graduated from Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management with a JD/MBA where he was a fellow at the Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies and Notes Editor at the Yale Journal on Regulation, the nation’s top-ranked administrative and corporate law journal. He also holds a BA from Duke University where he was a Robertson Scholar.

Meet Daniel Arneman

Daniel joined American Efficient when the company acquired PlotWatt, where he was VP of Analytics. Prior to PlotWatt, Daniel managed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Climate Action Program, working to make the campus climate-neutral by 2050. He holds a PhD from UNC Chapel Hill and a BS from the University of Kentucky. In his spare time, Daniel likes to get his hands dirty in his permaculture garden in Hillsborough, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Meet Sterling Bowen

Sterling Bowen is the Senior Director of residential efficiency programs at American Efficient.

Since joining American Efficient in 2016, Sterling has worked to originate and manage incentive programs for efficient consumer products. Prior to his role with AE, Sterling worked in the solar sector in an EPC sales and account management capacity. Over almost a decade he was involved in implementing distributed energy projects throughout the mid-Atlantic for utilities, federal agencies, and commercial businesses. Sterling also spent time in the public sector with the North Carolina Energy Office, where he managed internal and external communications. Sterling attended UNCC as a Cameron Scholar, where he graduated with Interdisciplinary Honors. He is a father of two who lives in Raleigh with his spouse, Jessica, where he enjoys kendo, ACC basketball and the thriving food culture of the Triangle.

Meet Bo Clayton

Bo Clayton serves the organization as Chief Investment Officer, where he oversees portfolio marketing and structured finance functions.

Bo also serves as Partner of Modern Energy, a holding company with businesses focused on energy efficiency, distributed generation, demand response, and energy storage. Prior to joining American Efficient, Bo held various marketing, origination, and finance roles at Citigroup, Credit Suisse, and JPMorgan, where he provided strategic planning, risk management, and liquidity services to the firms’ clients in the power sector. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in economics from Harvard College, where he played varsity soccer. Bo lives in Durham with his wife, two sons, and two dogs.

Meet Pete Curtice

Pete Curtice serves as Chief Executive Officer for American Efficient

Prior to joining American Efficient, Pete held various leadership roles at SAS Institute and Opower, where he led energy efficiency and demand response sales for Investor Owned Utilities. He is the past Chair of the Board for the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and has served on the boards for the Special Olympics North Carolina and Urban Ministries of Wake County. Pete holds an MBA from the Fuqua School at Duke University and BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Raleigh with his partner Maria and his three kids – Jack, Noah and Barrett.

Meet Tyler Curtis

Tyler Curtis serves as the Head of Research and Development for American Efficient.

Prior to joining American Efficient, Tyler led research, data science and product development teams at Capital One, Opower and Amazon. Most recently, Tyler led new product development at Capital One Labs, supporting the bank’s digital transformation by creating learning products focused on software development, machine learning and data engineering for 9000+ technology staff. As a founding member of Opower, Tyler built the Data Science practice. He invented the algorithmic underpinnings of Opower’s energy efficiency software business, securing the company’s first three patents. Tyler holds a BSE from Duke University. Tyler lives in Durham, NC with his wife, two sons and a remarkable three-legged dog.

Meet Tayler Dalpe

Tayler Dalpe is the Senior Director of Finance at American Efficient where she is responsible for implementing and maintaining comprehensive financial and accounting policies, practices, and procedures.

She began her career in public accounting at KPMG in Los Angeles and, as a finance executive and CPA, brings over 25 years of experience from companies ranging in size from start-ups to multi-million dollar organizations.  Tayler is an active member in Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), serves on the Boards of EO and St. Jude Media Ministry, and successfully lead one of two initiatives that were instrumental in the Town of Holly Springs (NC) receiving its Certified Entrepreneurial Community designation.  Tayler and her husband John met through competitive ballroom dancing and have been married for over 20 years.

Meet Luke Fishback

Luke Fishback is the Senior Director of Market Operations at American Efficient.

He has worked in energy analytics since 2007. Prior to the recent acquisition by American Efficient, Luke served as CEO of PlotWatt. Under his leadership, PlotWatt developed the first hardware agnostic Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring algorithms in the world and grew to be the leading provider of energy analytics for several of the largest multi-location enterprises in the United States. Luke is a graduate of Dartmouth College with two undergraduate degrees in engineering and a masters in engineering management. Prior to starting PlotWatt, Luke was an aerospace engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, where he held leadership roles on a number of classified and unclassified programs, mostly associated with things that leave the earth’s atmosphere.

Meet Angela Fox

Angela Fox is the Head of Market Operations at American Efficient.

Prior to joining American Efficient, Angela led business development teams at an international non-profit on over 75 bids from 40+ clients ranging from $400K to $750M, including large anchor USAID and BMGF projects. She led diversification efforts through managing collaborative efforts with corporate strategy on competitive funding landscapes and business opportunity planning as well as overhauling the strategic small bidding process for low dollar projects with new funders. Angela also worked in operations for a defense consulting firm overseeing OCONUS contractors on work with DOD, DOS, and foreign ministries. She graduated from Duke University with distinction and now lives in Durham with her husband and son.

Meet Samantha McCormick

Samantha is a Senior Accountant and is responsible for general accounting, reporting and audit support.

Prior to joining American Efficient, Samantha has a BA in Accounting from Metropolitan State University of Denver and worked for eight years at NGL Energy Partners, a midstream energy company in Denver. She is experienced with revenue recognition, intercompany and general ledger accounting. Samantha is an avid traveler and recently moved to North Carolina with her dog who enjoys hiking and trips to the beach.

Meet Kara Mountcastle

Kara Mountcastle is a Program Manager at American Efficient.

She also serves on the board of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. Prior to joining American Efficient, she worked in project management at a financial services consulting firm, and as a field organizer during the 2016 election. Kara graduated with honors from Davidson College, and equally splits her basketball allegiance between the Wildcats and UNC Tar Heels.

Meet Boris Nikolic

Mr. Nikolic is a Director at American Efficient focused on portfolio marketing and risk management.

Prior to joining American Efficient, he was a Senior Investment Associate at Cambridge Associates, where he advised nonprofit institutions (foundations and endowments), pension funds, and private wealth clients on investment portfolio construction across all asset classes, investment manager due diligence and selection, and other investment-related activities. Prior to his tenure at Cambridge Associates, he was a Sales and Trading Analyst for Citigroup Inc., where he held roles in credit research, institutional equity sales, and corporate and institutional foreign exchange sales. He graduated from Duke University as a Robertson Scholar.

Meet John Silkey

John Silkey is the Senior Director of Industrial EE Programs at American Efficient

John originates and manages incentive programs for efficient industrial systems. Prior to his role at AmEff John spent eight years leading utility energy efficiency portfolio strategy and program design as well as staffing, strategy and account management for a startup management consultancy. He also currently serves as Board Chair for the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance. John holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MSc from Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife Jenn and spends his free time writing or somewhere on the water in the Cascade Mountains.

Meet April Smith

April Smith is Director of Finance.

Prior to joining American Efficient, April worked in Accounting for Chesapeake Energy, a large american petroleum and natural gas exploration company for 20 years. She is experienced in financial operations, compliance and managing processes in scale up organizations. April is a recent transplant to North Carolina and lives in Raleigh with her husband and son and enjoys spending time outdoors either hiking or unwinding at the beach.

Meet David Storelli

David Storelli is a Senior Research Analyst at American Efficient, where he supports the development of new and existing programs.

He is also currently working with Modern Energy to develop energy access solutions in conjunction with the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives competition. David has a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, where he was an Undergraduate Research Scholar at the FREEDM Systems Center. He is enjoying living in Durham, and spends most weekends playing music of some kind.

Meet Jeff Trawick

Jeff develops software applications for American Efficient.

Jeff’s previous development experience includes networking software for mainframes, open source web infrastructure, and web applications, as an employee of large companies such as IBM, Sun, and Oracle, and as a consultant for smaller organizations.

Jeff  is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He received a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Alabama.  He and his wife live in Raleigh.