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It Starts With Passion For Energy Efficiency
Seinergy is building a Virtual Power Plant. By helping business use less energy, we are displacing the need to build new resources. Our goal is to match the energy output from the Waukegan, IL coal power plant, near where Seinergy founder, Bob Gunn, grew up. We’re 23% of the way there - with 309-million annual kWh saved so far – the equivalent of adding solar to 86,000 homes.
Doubling Down
Seinergy donates 1% of our top-line revenue to non-profits that support resource efficiency, ecological repair & preservation, and access to the outdoors. In addition, we make monthly contributions to the Last Prisoner Project. As our company grows so do our contributions. 1% For The Planet certifies our annual giving, ensuring we put our money where our mouths are.
Meet the Team
Seinergy culture embraces entrepreneurship and creativity as well as hustle and grit. We are a small business; we value innovation, calculated risks, flipping mental models upside down, sustainable business practices, and a work-life balance. For our clients, this means we go to bat for you, hopefully delivering you results you didn't know were possible.
Bob Gunn, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Bob founded Seinergy to test new market opportunities while challenging some outdated utility models. Enter the cannabis industry, and Seinergy was poised to connect growers with utilities and help utilities hit the ground running by applying custom energy grant funding to the nascent and rapidly evolving industry. Prior to Seinergy Bob was an economist at Snohomish Public Utility District as an energy efficiency planner and evaluator. Bob completed his MBA at Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School), and his BA in economics from Colorado College; he is a Certified Energy Manager through the Association of Certified Engineers. Bob is an analyst at heart, rooted in the electric utility industry, and loves numbers, spreadsheets, and energy efficiency. At home, Bob loves to tinker, create, adventure in the mountains, on the water, or on a bike with his kids.
Postyn Smith, Energy Analyst & Project Manager
Postyn enjoys facilitating collaborations between innovative projects, utilities, and government programs to save energy. He brings knowledge about horticultural lighting programs covering more than 200 million customers in the US and Canada and keeps his nose to the ground to learn about new and changing opportunities. Before joining Seinergy, Postyn developed renewable energy, sustainability, and climate change programs. He holds a BA in Physics from Williams College. Outside of work, Postyn likes to run, doggy paddle in Lake Washington, and chase snowflakes by ski in nearby mountains.
Ian Knisely, Utility Analyst & Project Manager
Ian Knisely, MEM, is passionate about cannabis and corporate sustainability. At Seinergy, Ian helps cannabis growers and utility providers to implement energy efficient and environmentally sustainable growing solutions. Ian previously served on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team at the MSO Curaleaf, working to advance Environmental Social Governance (ESG) goals across their national footprint of dozens of cultivation sites and 150+ retail locations. Ian holds a Master of Environmental Management with a concentration in Business & Environment from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Outside of work, Ian is the owner and manager of East Rock Apiary, a backyard beekeeping business in New Haven, Connecticut. His other interests include photography, fly fishing, and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Ian Binks, Sales & Account Manager
Ian Binks brings a passion for sustainability and energy efficiency to Seinergy. With over 10 years of experience in the energy industry, an MPA from the University of Washington, and a working knowledge of the competitive energy markets, Ian has seen nearly every challenge this market can throw at you. From ESG, CEM, and LEED, Ian knows all the letters of the alphabet soup that is energy efficiency and can guide your business in the direction needed to reach your goals. When he isn't talking energy, Ian enjoys, running, paddleboarding, and making turns on the ski slopes.
Emi Gunn, Director of Marketing, HR, Accounting & Sustainability
Emi joins Seinergy after experience managing programs, events, communications, databases, accounts and outreach, primarily with non-profits. She enjoys the variety of tasks involved in a small business and the private sector in general. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Business with a focus on Community Economic Development and a BA from Huxley College in Environmental Education. Emi believes the weather is never a reason to stay indoors and is committed to regular outside activities and adventure; she drags along her two kids and analyst husband.
Michiel Zuidweg, Microgrid Designer & Advising Consultant
Michiel brings over 20 years of commercial and utility-scale solar and microgrid design and construction experience to Seinergy and ia NABCEP Certified. Michiel sits on the technical advisory committee for the Honnold Foundation and is involved in solar and microgrid projects both domestically and abroad, including two microgrid projects in Puerto Rico. Michiel holds both master's and undergraduate degrees in physics from the University of Washington and the Colorado College, respectively.
