Working together to power the clean energy revolution

Larry Aller

Strategy / Managing Director

Larry Aller leads BlueWave’s Strategy and New Markets work. He is an experienced cleantech executive with background building high-growth enterprises and developing and implementing strategy and investments. Prior to joining BlueWave, Larry spent over five years at Next Step Living in senior business development and strategy roles where he helped the company grow from $1M in revenue to over $100M. At Next Step Living, Larry led the development of the company’s community solar offering and oversaw sales and marketing, customer experience, new service development and policy and regulatory affairs efforts at the state level and federally. Before Next Step Living, Larry was a manager at Bain & Company where he led engagements with multi-billion dollar clients in technology hardware, software, and private equity diligence.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Larry is a runner, Ironman triathlete, and has led several fundraising initiatives for cancer research.

Wayne Cowie

Project Finance / Managing Director

Wayne is responsible for all BlueWave Solar project finance activities, including the raising of development and construction finance and ultimately the sale of our projects to long term investors. Wayne is also responsible for the BlueWave South Africa solar development business.
 
Wayne brings over 15 years of experience spanning mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, corporate strategy, solar development, and project finance to BlueWave. He joined BlueWave in 2014 from London-based merchant bank Close Brothers Group PLC where he worked on corporate M&A and group strategy. Prior to that, he worked in the financial services M&A team at Hawkpoint, a London-based independent corporate finance advisory firm, and with Deloitte in Cape Town, New York, and Sydney.
 
Wayne graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science with Honours in Finance and later qualified as a Chartered Accountant and CFA® Charterholder.

John DeVillars

Co-Founder / Chairman

John DeVillars is a clean energy and environmental professional with substantial leadership experience in both the public and private sectors. Mr. DeVillars’ public service career includes service as Secretary of the Environment for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chair of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and Chief of Operations for Governor Michael Dukakis. In 1993 he was appointed New England Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency by President Bill Clinton, a post he served in until 2000. He has received numerous awards for his environmental service, including the President's Award of the Nature Conservancy, given annually for national leadership in environmental affairs.

His private sector career includes founding and leading the Environmental Management practice for the national accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand (PWC); serving as Executive Vice President of Brownfields Recovery Corporation, a brownfields real estate investment and development company with assets in Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and as Lecturer on Environmental Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. DeVillars serves on numerous public and private company and non‐profit boards including as a member of the Executive Committee of the New England Clean Energy Council; Chair of the Advisory Board of the Acadia Center, a leading research and advocacy group on the forefront of efforts to combat global climate change; Chairman's Council of the Trustees of Reservations; and Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. In 2012 he was appointed by the United States EPA Administrator to serve on the agency’s National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology. For the 2016-2017 academic year, in addition to exercising his responsibilities on behalf of BlueWave, Mr. DeVillars served as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. As a senior fellow at the Center, he focused on the role of public utilities in meeting the climate change challenge.

Mr. DeVillars earned his MPA degree from Harvard University and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lynda Freshman

Legal / General Counsel

As Lead Counsel & Compliance Officer at BlueWave, Lynda advises the company on a broad range of legal issues with a particular focus on compliance, regulatory, and commercial matters.  She brings to BlueWave a depth of knowledge in the areas of consumer protection and regulatory law.
 
Prior to joining BlueWave, Lynda was an Assistant Attorney General with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, where she led investigations of unfair and deceptive practices and false claims act violations, as well as handled proceedings before the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
 
Lynda received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a M.A. from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Elizabeth Glynn

Community Solar Partnerships / Managing Director

Elizabeth (Betsy) Glynn is the Managing Director of Community Solar Business Development at BlueWave Solar. She joined the BlueWave team in 2017 as the Senior Director of Community Solar to oversee BlueWave’sfirst community solar project. In fall of 2017, she pivoted to her current role as Managing Director where she has worked to develop BlueWave’s current client product, growing BlueWave’s Community Solar services from 40MW to the over 260MWs that are under management today. She has overseen the enrollment of over 2,500 community solar subscriptions including 82MW of large offtake customers.

Based in Boston, Betsy spent her early career working with multifamily building owners to implement energy-efficiency and water conservation measures as well as renewable power installations to benefit low-and moderate-income communities. She has served on a number of industry councils and boards including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council (2014-2017), the Network for Energy, Water, and Health in Affordable Buildings (NEWHAB; 2015-2017), and the Building Energy Boston conference (2017-2018). She currently sits on the board of directors of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).

Betsy holds a master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in Geosciences from Franklin & Marshall College. Outside the office, her passions include running, hiking, skiing, singing, and family adventures with her husband, 2 kids, and dog named CoCo.

Eric Graber-Lopez

Co-Founder / President

Eric Graber-Lopez is deeply involved in all aspects of BlueWave's development activities with leadership responsibilities for project financing. He and Mr. DeVillars joined forces to launch BlueWave’s solar development activities.

Prior to joining BlueWave, Mr. Graber-Lopez served as Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst on the Specialty Equity Growth Team at Putnam Investments, where he helped manage $8 billion in U.S. mid- and large-cap growth equity portfolios. At Putnam, he focused on the energy, alternative energy, materials, and utilities sectors and was responsible for his team's investments in those sectors in both public and private markets. Mr. Graber-Lopez started as a Senior Equity Analyst within Putnam's Global Equity Research Group and was a member of the Natural Resources and Utilities fund teams. During his years on the sell-side, Mr. Graber-Lopez focused on the Energy and Utilities industries and was ranked by several leading industry surveys as being among the top analysts in his field. Mr. Graber-Lopez has extensive experience in firm valuation, mergers and acquisitions advisory services, private equity transactions, and portfolio management.

Trevor Hardy

Co-Founder / CEO

As Chief Executive Officer of BlueWave, Trevor leads all aspects of the company’s finance, operations, and expansion activity. Trevor joined BlueWave as a founding executive in early 2012 and helped grow the company into one of the most respected solar developers and community solar service providers in New England. During his tenure at BlueWave, Trevor has played an integral role in driving growth and expansion to a national platform focused on community solar customer management and client services.

Prior to joining BlueWave, Trevor was a Senior Director of Acquisitions and Development at Tishman Speyer, one of the largest and most respected real estate companies in the world. As a real estate private equity professional, he gained extensive expertise in acquisitions, development, financing and asset management. He was also the Regional Finance Director of the Boston region and was intimately involved in all aspects of Tishman Speyer’s regional business.

Born in South Africa, Trevor was a Skye Foundation Fellow and also awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study at MIT, where he completed MS degrees in both Design Technology and Real Estate Development. He also holds a Bachelor of Building Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

Neal Isaacson

Accounting / CFO

Neal leads BlueWave's finance and administrative functions, as well as legal, and facilities. He is a financial industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience managing and growing early-stage companies, providing strategic financial planning, global cash management as well as debt and equity financings in the technology and cleantech industries. His diverse background blends public company experience with the high-growth, fast-paced environment of early-stage companies. Previous CFO roles include XL Hybrids, Open Blue, Ze-gen, EnerNOC (NASD: ENOC), Ucentric Systems; and founder, CFO, and director of Cignal Global Communications. The Association for Corporate Growth Boston (ACG) and Mass High Tech named EnerNOC the 2007 Top IPO in New England.

Neal has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Massachusetts and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Shawn Jones

Storage Development / Managing Director

Michael Marsch

Solar Development / Principal

Mike Marsch is Senior Vice President of Community Solar at BlueWave. He joined BlueWave in June 2013 to manage and grow the firm’s Development and Construction group and oversee the development of Massachusetts’s first community solar projects. Throughout his time at BlueWave, Mike has played a myriad of roles, leading negotiations on land lease and project contracts as in-house counsel, financial forecasting as the company’s CFO, and building teams such as the project development team from the ground up. In 2016, Mike transitioned became the leader of BlueWave’s Community Solar business, a startup which has doubled revenue every year since inception and become a market leader in community solar servicing.

Prior to joining BlueWave, Mike focused on real estate in his native Southern California, most recently as principal at of Beckett Holdings, a firm he founded while in business school to capitalize on development opportunities in the multifamily sector. Earlier in his career, Mike was a Development Associate with The Ratkovich Company, a highly respected Los Angeles‐area developer, and was intimately involved in the acquisition, development, and management of over $500 million of residential opportunities with Briarwood Capital, a San Diego developer with over $1 billion of completed projects and a focus on master‐planned golf communities.

Mr. Marsch holds a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was named the John S. Long Outstanding Student in Real Estate. He is passionate about environmental sustainability and is an active volunteer with organizations seeking to reduce human impact on the world’s oceans.

Chad Nichols

Project Development / Managing Director

Kavita Ravi

Grid Integration / Managing Director

Mark Sylvia

Civic Engagement / Chief of Staff

Mark Sylvia joined BlueWave as a Managing Director in January 2015 to help the company expand its solar development portfolio nationally and internationally. He was initially responsible for Business Development activities and now serves as Chief of Staff. As Chief of Staff, Mark oversees the Civic Engagement, People and Marketing teams and is responsible for corporate administration. He participates on the Northeast Clean Energy Council’s Policy Committee and Solar Working Group and serves on the New York Solar Energy Industry Association’s (NYSEIA) Board of Directors. Mark is also a board member and President of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England (SEBANE). He also represents BlueWave on the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) leadership committee.

Mark previously served as a senior energy official in the Administration of former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, having served as the first Green Communities Division Director as well as Department of Energy Resources Commissioner and as Undersecretary for Energy. He and his team implemented nation-leading policies, leading to the number-one ranking in energy efficiency four years in a row and surpassed the Governor’s ambitious goal of developing 250 megawatts of solar energy by 2017 four years early. Under Mark’s leadership, DOER launched innovative programs to support energy resiliency, electric vehicle adoption, building labeling and renewable thermal technologies. Also during his tenure, 155 cities and towns were designated as Green Communities, a first in the nation local clean energy initiative, representing more than half of the Commonwealth’s population. Also during his tenure, he chaired the Energy Facilities Sighting Board and served on the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) boards.

Mark also spent 11 years in municipal government including as Town Manager for the Town of Plymouth from 2005 to 2009.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in public administration from the American University in Washington D.C. Mark lives with his wife, Veronique, and children, Mitchell and Scarlett, in his hometown of Fairhaven where he serves as the elected Town Moderator and serves on various local boards.

Michael Zimmer

Solar Development / Managing Director