2025 EEA Board Biographies

Board President

Fred Maher
Director, Business Development
CMC Energy Services

As Director of Business Development, Fred Maher steers CMC Energy Services’ business growth and strategic marketing activities, creating multichannel campaigns optimizing lead generation and customer acquisition while working closely with the CMC Board and marketing partners. Prior to joining CMC, Fred served as Internal Communications Manager at Exelon Generation and held leadership roles in communications departments at PECO—where he created and managed all facets of a $5 million project to give homeowners energy reports—and the Klein College of Media and Communication. He has a B.A. in Journalism from Temple University and an M.A. in Mass Media and Communications from Temple University.

Fred serves on the Board of Visitors for Temple University’s Klein College of Communication and is Co-Chair of the DEI Council for the Association of Energy Service Professionals.

Vice President

Kevin Warren
Principal
Warren Energy

Kevin Warren was an original member of the KEEA Board and served for roughly 10 years. Like several other Board members, he has been involved with PA ACT129 since its development and lobbied for its passage prior to KEEA’s official founding. His energy efficiency experience has focused on large multifamily, industrial, and commercial facilities.

Kevin Warren founded and is the principal of Warren Energy. Prior to starting the company, he was co-founder and principal of kW Engineering in Oakland, California. Kevin is a nationally recognized expert on measurement and verification (M&V) and impact evaluation. He is an active member of the Efficiency Valuation Organization’s (EVO) International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) committee where he is the chair of the IPMVP EM&V subcommittee. Kevin has represented EVO in energy efficiency protocol efforts with NAESB, the World Bank, and ANSI. He is a registered professional engineer in five states and has a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, received in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Solar Energy Laboratory.

Kevin serves on the Pennsylvania Climate Change Advisory Committee, Chester County Energy and Environmental Advisory Board, the Oxford Regional Planning Commission’s Environmental Advisory Council, and the Elk Township Open Space Committee. He is also the President of the Elk Creeks Watershed Association.

Treasurer

Peter Krajsa
Co-Chair & Managing Member
National Energy Improvement Fund (NEIF)

Peter Krajsa was a founding board member of KEEA and a Co-Chair and Founder of the National Energy Improvement Fund (NEIF) the nation’s only Certified Benefit Corporation, US Department of Energy Home Improvement Expert lender partner. Pennsylvania-based, NEIF provides energy efficiency and resilience financing programs for home and businesses nationally through partnerships with governments, utilities, manufacturers and contractors. NEIF currently has over 2,000 partners focused on increasing the affordability of energy and resilience improvements. NEIF currently administers financing programs for the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) and for several of New Jersey’s utilities.

Peter is a recognized innovator in energy efficiency finance for over two decades. He spear-headed the creation of a number of major national energy finance programs as CEO of AFC First Financial Corporation, a specialty residential energy efficiency lender, operating programs nationally with a network of over 6,000 participating contractors. Peter led the development of the company’s national EnergyLoan® program as one of Fannie Mae’s approved lenders; created the Keystone Home Energy Loan Program in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Treasury Department, DEP and PHFA, which laid the foundation for WHEEL, (Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans), the world’s first investment grade rated securitization of a portfolio of unsecured energy loans. Under his leadership, AFC First closed over $500 million in energy efficiency loans, was named by the U.S. DOE as the nation’s first private Home Performance with ENERGY STAR sponsor, selected as one of five national pilot lenders for the HUD PowerSaver program, received the Alliance to Save Energy Andromeda Award and established the Green Energy Training Academy supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to founding NEIF, he headed national channel business development for the innovative energy lender, Renew Financial, which acquired AFC First in 2015, as part of its national expansion plans.

He holds a B.S. Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Secretary

Joe Nunley
Partner
Green Energy Economics Group

Joe Nunley is a Managing Consultant for Green Energy Economics Group (GEEG). In this role, he is responsible for designing new energy efficiency portfolios, analyzing existing energy efficiency programs and portfolios, performing management consulting for home performance contractors, and continuous improvement process of existing program designs. Prior to joining GEEG, Joe served as the Vice President of Program Services at PSD. In this role Joe led the PSD Program Services Division, which implements Residential, Commercial, and Energy Code Programs throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest. Joe has been in the EE field for 15 years. Prior to joining PSD, he was an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Senior Analyst with UGI Utilities, where he was responsible for managing the commercial and residential natural gas Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programs. Joe was also responsible for emerging technologies, customer satisfaction, and trade ally relations. Joe previously worked as an Energy Efficiency Trade Ally Manager with Puget Sound Energy in Seattle, WA. Prior to that position, Joe spent eight years as the owner of a Harrisburg, PA energy auditing firm, focusing on Utility Low-Income Weatherization Programs, and residential and small commercial energy audits. Rooted in a deep love for building science, Joe is an Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Certified Energy Manager (CEM) as well as a Building Performance Institute (BPI) Certified Building Analyst.

Alon Abramson
Vice President of Programs
Philadelphia Energy Authority

Alon Abramson joined the Philadelphia Energy Authority in 2017 and currently serves as the Vice President of Programs. In this role, Alon oversees PEA’s suite of residential, commercial, and workforce programs. Residential programs include Solarize Philly, the nation’s largest solarize program, as well as Built to Last, a nationally-recognized program that delivers holistic home improvements to low-income homeowners. Commercial programs are designed to assist non-profit, institutional, and for-profit owners of small to large commercial properties to make economical investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. PEA’s Workforce programs draw a line between these clean energy projects and labor needs, training local workers to benefit from new job opportunities. These efforts all align with the Philadelphia Energy Authority’s mission to leverage energy as a tool for real social impact by improving the environment, reducing utility costs, and creating jobs.

Jackie Berger
President
APPRISE

Jackie Berger is the President and Co-Founder of APPRISE. She has 25 years of experience conducting research and evaluation on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy affordability programs for Federal agencies, state agencies, utility companies, and nonprofit organizations. Jackie‘s areas of expertise are program evaluation design and implementation, performance measurement, impact evaluation, process evaluation, and survey research. 
 
Jackie has a Ph.D. In Economics from Princeton University and a M.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Leadership NJ Fellow and provides conference abstract and paper review for the National Home Performance Conference, the Association of Energy Service Professionals, and the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings.

Christine Symington
Executive Director
Sustainable Princeton

Thrilled to dedicate each day to helping Princeton become more sustainable and equitable, Christine brings skills learned in her previous finance industry career to ensure our programs achieve meaningful, evidence-based results. As an adopter of car-free living, Christine is often spotted waking (or biking) down Nassau Street on her way to catch a movie at the Garden Theater.