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Vice President of West Region

Clayton Boop

With several years of experience in the performance contracting industry, Clayton’s rich understanding of managing operational teams, strategic initiatives, technology, and finance positions him well as the Veregy Western Region Vice President. Clayton is a graduate of the University of Denver.

Director of Sales

Ben Madsen

As the Director of the Western Region sales team, Ben leads a team of consultative and collaborative account executives in helping leaders and operations managers throughout the West Coast understand their healthy building, decarbonization, and energy efficiency solutions. He has successfully marketed ESCO projects for over 15 years with millions saved in energy expenses. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toledo.

Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications

Cory Scamihorn

Cory manages the marketing initiatives for Veregy’s Western Region, including developing thought leadership for our clients, networking organizations, tradeshows, website, social media, marketing campaigns,  and proposals. Cory spent time as a gross roots organizer working on bond elections and other important issues . He also work in the office of a U.S. House of Representative as a congressional intern. All of which provided great insight into the challenges our K12, local and state government clients face on a daily basis, specifically as it relates to resiliency.

Cory has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Government from Arizona State University.

General Manager, P.E., CEM, CLEP, B.S.M.E.

Staffan Akerstrom

With over 20 years of experience in the energy industry Staffan Akerstrom has extensive experience in energy efficiency, power generation, renewables, and energy software-as-a-service. Staffan’s work has included program management, project development, operations management, project/construction management, and product development.

Staffan is a co-founder of Enpowered Solutions, now a Veregy company, and has been an invited panel member in many energy and sustainability forums including the International Dairy Foods Association, Calit2 at UC Irvine, Pacific Region CHP Applications Center, and FMA. Staffan has been quoted in several publications such as Food Engineering and Distributed Energy on topics of sustainability, water management, distributed generation, and energy management. He has also served as a host of a Webcast discussing Energy Intelligence.

Previously Staffan was the co-founder of EPS Corp, where he commercialized one of the first real-time sustainability software-as-a-service platforms and was also EVP-GM for the enterprise energy management business of Ameresco Intelligent Systems. He has developed multiple onsite generation projects of various technologies nationally, including biogas and natural gas-fired IC engines, gas turbines, and also photovoltaic systems. His energy efficiency expertise includes HVAC, refrigeration, compressed air, steam, and hot water systems for both commercial and industrial facilities.

Staffan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a California Licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager, and Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional.

Director of Operations

Jason Brown

Jason brings two decades of electrical trade experience and leads a large percentage of our electrical division. He ensures operations are on target and running smoothly. His holistic understanding of multiple trades, including distributed energy, makes him a valuable resource to our employees and clientele.

Jason holds a certificate in Construction Management from the Alliance for Construction Excellence and is also OSHA 30 Hour Certified. Additionally, he completed the Electrical and PLC Services program at NIT.

Director of Vehicle Electrification

Scott Wisner

As a former transit professional and innovator with several years experience working for Valley Metro RPTA, Scott joined the Veregy team in 2021 to head up our vehicle electrification division. Scott is responsible for working directly with municipalities, schools and transit customers to deliver EV fleet and infrastructure plans and solutions that support your organizations needs.

Manager, Human Resources

Jacquie Wheeler

Project Developer III - Enterprise Sales

Sumit Ray, PE, CEM, LEED, MS, MBA

Sumit Ray is the Principal Engineer and the Center of Excellence lead at CTS. Sumit focuses on developing and managing energy infrastructure projects for K-12 schools, municipalities, large commercial, industrial and educational clients. Also, as a decarbonization practice lead, provides consulting services for utility & energy infrastructure master planning, district energy, combined heat & power, renewable energy and GHG reduction strategies.

As a Center of Excellence lead, Sumit is responsible for developing standardized processes, tools and templates for efficient project development. This is a cloud-based platform for remote access by all engineers.

Sumit has more than 28 years of industry experience. He has PE license for multiple states. He earned a Master of Science in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida and an executive MBA from Michigan State University.

Director of Environmental Health & Safety

Paul Benson, Sr.

Paul Benson has been in the construction industry for over 25 years. Most recently, he has been the Regional Safety Director of the largest steel erector/fabricator in the US. He utilizes his knowledge, skills, and hands-on experience to develop practical and compliant programs and policies. His responsibilities, in part, will be to maintain a safe and healthy job site, work with local subcontractors to ensure they follow Veregy company policies and work with National Insurance and Risk programs to ensure compliance and risk reduction.

Paul has a certificate of completion with the International Associate of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, as well as being a certified OSHA Authorized Construction Trainer. He is also an accredited Safety Manager Specialist, from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.

Manager of Regional Technology

Michael Bernard

Michael designs, installs, programs, and monitors Building Automation Systems, some of which have saved customers close to 50% on their electric bills. He also has experience with project management and has a reputation for for trying new things and thinking outside of the box. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. 

Manager, Solutions Development & Engineering

Adam Kline

Adam is the Western Region’s Electrical Division Manager. He is responsible for managing the electrical preconstruction team, which includes new construction, distributed generation, and energy. He also assists the project management team ensuring all costs are accounted for and implemented in the field.

Adam is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), and KMC BacState Certified. He also holds a degree in Building Construction Management from Purdue University.

West Region Controller

Michele Greener

Senior Manager of Corporate Finance

Grant Link

Manager, Consulting Energy Engineering

Sean Murphy