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The Mondre Energy Team

JUDITH L. MONDRE
Founder and President
                                   
Judith Mondre has a distinguished history of successful and innovative energy management and policy making, serving commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental and educational organizations. Her career in the energy field spans seventeen years and her efforts have resulted in energy cost savings well in excess of $200 million for her clients.

Prior to founding Mondre Energy, Inc. Ms. Mondre served as the first Executive Director of the City of Philadelphia's Municipal Energy Office under former Mayor Ed Rendell, building the Office into a nationally recognized leader in reducing energy costs and improving energy efficiency in municipal government operations. Under her leadership, the City received EPA's Partner of the Year Award and Vice President Al Gore's "Hammer Award" for Excellence in making Government more effective. She was Chair of the Urban Consortium Energy Task Force and the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program.

Ms. Mondre was named one of the "Best 50 Women in Business in Pennsylvania" in 2001. She has served on mayoral and gubernatorial transitions teams on energy and has been a technical advisor to energy publications. Ms. Mondre regularly participates in industry conferences as a featured speaker and panelist.

Ms. Mondre was appointed the first female Chairperson of the Anti-Defamation League of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region, and serves on numerous committees focused on education, corporate partnerships and "No Place for Hate" initiatives. Ms. Mondre serves on the Board of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and has been a featured speaker or panelist at Chamber and other organization women in business events. She serves as a statewide evaluator for Pennsylvania EDC programs under Act 129.

Ms. Mondre holds a BA in History/Political Science from the State University of New York,  Stony Brook.

STEVEN F. MILLER, PE
Vice President, Product Development/Engineer

Steven Miller is a registered professional engineer with extensive experience in all phases of industrial and commercial utility systems planning and evaluation, including: heat pumps, heat recovery, process and space cooling, cogeneration, and alternative energy systems.  With a Masters degree in Finance, he brings a strong combination of technical and financial expertise to clients. 

Mr. Miller's background includes designing and managing industrial energy audits and energy conservation programs, with an emphasis on technical and financial evaluation, scope development, and vendor selection.  He has led economic and technical feasibility studies for cogeneration systems and alternative energy projects such as petroleum coke gasification and advanced fluidized bed technology. Mr. Miller managed natural gas procurement and developed a natural gas price hedging strategy for an industrial cogeneration facility that consumed more than eight billion cubic feet of natural gas per year.

Mr. Miller has conducted assessments of industrial and commercial cogeneration projects including optimal dispatching programs to maximize savings under various electric utility tariffs.  He served as lead engineer on the financial analysis, redesign and construction of industrial fuel, water, compressed air and steam distribution systems to reduce energy cost and maximize throughput.  A heat pump heat recovery system designed by Mr. Miller for two industrial facilities reduced hot water costs by 80 percent. 

Mr. Miller holds an MS in Finance from Drexel University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Forczek has managed energy procurements for large-scale institutional users, handling all phases from presentation and negotiation, through execution of procurement contracts and management of the supply relationships after implementation.  While he has particular experience in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions, Mr. Forczek has directed supply solicitations throughout the United States. Mr. Forczek provides in-depth understanding of the dynamics of regional and global energy markets, as well as the supporting infrastructure from both the supplier and client perspective. He has developed strategic partnerships with generation developers, assisting them through the regulatory process. As a facilitator and coordinator he has worked closely with all major utility companies on design, construction, asset acquisition, interconnection agreements and economic tariff design. His strong analytical skills help to interpret operational performance in financial terms, which he supplements with experience in auditing, finance, administration, and asset valuation.

Mr. Forczek holds an Executive MBA from the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.  He earned a BS in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and completed course work at the University of Illinois on Energy Engineering Business Strategies.

KENNETH R. YOUNG
Project Manager of Database Services and Energy Analysis

Ken Young has more than 20 years experience in the electric utility and avionics industries. At Mondre Energy, Mr. Young is responsible for developing and adapting decision-support software within clients' organizations. He works with engineers, IT personnel, and management to identify enterprise-wide and inter-departmental needs and to create technology solutions.

Mr. Young has developed bundled and unbundled tariff models and auditing capability for utilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York.  These models support bill auditing, tariff analysis, development of "shopping credits," and evaluation of the impact of deregulation and commodity purchasing.

Mr. Young's background includes work with PECO Energy, an Exelon company, where he supported the design and operation of nuclear facilities, including the development of databases for reactor control blade exposure and special nuclear material tracking. While there, Mr. Young was also responsible for conducting plant assessments to ensure safety and regulatory compliance. Mr. Young holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State.

JAMES WATKINS
IT Systems Manager

Mr. Watkins brings more than fifteen years experience in almost all phases of software development, database management, and information technology software and hardware services in a variety of industry settings including banking and finance, travel, education, and wireless and Internet services.  He is Linux certified, and has particular expertise in web-based applications.  At Mondre Energy, Mr. Watkins is responsible for developing software that clients use to monitor energy usage and pricing.  He works closely with clients to implement and manage these applications, and provides ongoing support.

Mr. Watkins has extensive experience with a wide variety of software including:
Cent OS Linux 4.5, Windows 2003 Server, Apache 2, PHP 4 & 5, MySQL 5 (Configuration), Zabbix, Weblogic 8.1 Unix, Tomcat, Siteminder 5.5 & 6, Red Hat AS 3 & 4, HPUX 11i, Brio/Hyperion reporting, Psynch 8, Solaris 2.6 & 2.8, Cisco IOS, Weblogic express 6.1  8, Netscape enterprise, Oracle 8i, Open SSL, PHP, Perl, cURL, HTML, XML, Palm OS with wireless extensions, IPchains firewalls, and MS SQL 7.  His hardware experience includes: Cisco 1700 routers, Cisco CE-500 traffic shaping switches, HP Procurve 400m switches, Juniper Networks Firewalls, X86 raid based servers, Cisco 2900 switches, F5 Big IP load balancers, Ipivot/Intel SSL accelerators, Brocade Silkworm SAN switches, Cisco 2900 & 3900 switches, Cisco Content Services Switches, Alteon/Nortel load balancing Switches, Sun/Cobalt RAQ, and Netscreen Firewalls.

 
WILLIAM MEADE
Grant/Technical Support/Data Analyst

Mr. Meade leads Mondre Energy's grant writing division with a unique combination of private sector and federal government experience. In this role, Mr. Meade provides clients with access to a diverse network of federal, state, and local grants/other reimbursable programs.   Mr. Meade also serves as a data analyst for MEI's work as a PA State Evaluator for Act 129.  In this capacity, Mr. Meade participates in the annual evaluations of the state's electrical distribution companies, develops analytical frameworks for measurement and verification, standardizing data formats, and comparing actual performance against statewide standards.

Prior to joining Mondre, Mr. Meade implemented and managed the comprehensive shareholder relations program for the nation's second largest publicly traded water utility, Aqua America Inc. He also served as a Legislative Assistant at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), where he expedited the distribution of $93.1 million in Congressional grants. In this position, he played a vital role in securing $21 billion for the Agency's various loan programs.

Mr. Meade received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in August 2009 he completed post graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

ANGELIA EPPS
Data Analyst

Ms. Epps provides data support and analysis for MEI clients including reconciliation and resolution of disputes.  Ms. Epps previously served as a senior Customer and Marketing Services Representative at PECO Energy, an Exelon Company, including overall account management, contract renewals, collections, and transaction tracking for industrial, commercial, and residential customers.

MARGARET MARY "PEG" COLEY
Office Administrator

Trained in Medical Secretarial Studies at Gwynedd-Mercy College, Ms. Coley brings a wealth of experience in overseeing the efficient flow of information and communication between clients and the staff of complex organizations. She is responsible for Mondre Energy's financial record keeping and operations, oversees the company's insurance and benefits plans, and acts as a liaison with clients' financial and contract administration staffs.  Ms. Coley's professional credentials include service as an executive assistant in the legal, health care and human resource fields, at large law firms, major teaching hospitals and a large-market daily newspaper. In the course of those positions, she has developed skills in project management, monitoring contract compliance, benefits and human resource administration, and in organizing people, paper and data.

RICHARD WELLS
Communications/Marketing

Richard Wells has more than 20 years experience in all phases of communications, public affairs, public relations, and marketing.  His career began as the public relations director for The Center for Literacy in Philadelphia, a non-profit agency working to teach adults to read.  In the late 1980s, Richard became part of the healthcare industry in southeastern Pennsylvania, including sixteen years with Main Line Health, one of the largest multi-hospital systems in Pennsylvania.

At Main Line Health, Richard was responsible for internal and external corporate communications, media relations, community and government relations, and crisis communications for a billion-dollar organization with more than 8,000 employees. He was a member of the senior management team and reported directly to the CEO.  He worked closely with both the Marketing Department and the Human Resources Department, for which he also became an in-house management trainer. 

In 2007, Richard left Main Line Health to become the principal and co-founder of The Wellynn Group, a consulting practice in public affairs, marketing, and communications.  Richard holds an English degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from St. Josephs University in Philadelphia.

 
BRADFORD M. STERN, Esq.
Attorney

Bradford Stern specializes in strategic management, commodity procurement, electric power industry restructuring, and demand-side management on behalf of public and private energy consumers. Mr. Stern's legal experience includes associate positions in the public utility and energy practice groups of Buchanan Ingersoll, Princeton, NJ and McManimon & Scotland, Newark, NJ.  He also worked as a supervising licensing engineer with United Engineers & Constructors, Philadelphia, PA, specializing in the siting and licensing of large-scale power production facilities. 

Mr. Stern formerly served as a senior vice president at Mondre Energy, and is currently a partner in Rothfelder Stern, L.L.C., a firm specializing in regulatory, legislative, administrative, transactional, contract and litigation matters involving the electric, gas, telecommunications, cable television, water, wastewater industries and solid waste industries. The firm has represented public and private entities in New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, California and other states.

Mr. Stern received his law degree from the Rutgers University School of Law-Camden.  He received a Master of Arts in Environmental Affairs, and a Bachelor in Arts in Biology, both from Clark University Worcester, MA.  He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  He is a member of the American Bar Association, and is a registered New Jersey lobbyist.

MARJORIE SINGER OCHROCH, Esq.
Attorney

Marjorie Ochroch brings extensive legal experience in the energy field, focusing on energy reduction and regulatory efficiency programs for large end users in both the public and private sector.  Ms. Ochroch fulfills virtually all legal needs for energy clients including: preparation of corporate papers, general corporate matters, negotiating contracts, addressed employment issues, prepared non-disclosure agreements and negotiating leases.   She has served as project manager for large commercial aggregation procurements involving a total of four billion kilowatt hours, equaling $350 to $400 million in electricity costs. She has prepared RFPs for procurements of gas, oil and electricity and drafted, negotiated and documented energy supply agreements for clients, including large municipalities and private corporations. She counsels on disputes with utilities and in regulatory proceedings, and has assisted on local rate proceedings for both private and municipal entities concerned about rising energy costs. Ms. Ochroch has handled contract disputes and settlement negotiations on behalf of clients, and has drafted and negotiated licensing agreements for energy management software created by MEI.

Beyond the energy sector, Ms. Ochroch has extensive experience in all phases of general corporate law, including formation, insurance, ownership structure, shareholder disputes, tax, contract and zoning issues.  She served as a supervisor for Clinical Faculty for the Small Business Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. 

She earned her law degree from the Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, PA, and holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy (with a minor in Political Science) from Emory University, Atlanta, GA.  She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.