About EnergySavvy.com

Be Smart About Home Energy Use

Who doesn't want to be smart about their energy use at home? A few of the many good reasons why it's important is:

• Save money on utility bills
• Use a "whole home" approach to a heating or cooling system replacement, or a remodel, to make your home more comfortable
• Fit your goal of a more earth-friendly lifestyle by making your home use less energy

When we tried getting answers to simple questions about energy rebates, tax credits, incentives and contractors that really understand energy efficiency we found the process way too hard and confusing. From this frustration hatched the idea for EnergySavvy.com.

Get Answers

We make it easy for you to understand and take action on the basics of energy efficiency. EnergySavvy.com helps you:

• Calculate an energy score for your home. Just like your car has an 'MPG' rating, so should your home. Once you know your home's MPG, you know where you stand and can begin to make progress.
• Understand various energy efficiency related topics such as energy audits.
• Understand what rebates, tax credits, incentives and loans apply to your situation and how to take advantage of them.
• Learn about and connect with qualified and screened contractors that can best help with your interest.

We're always updating and improving EnergySavvy. If you don't find what you need today, please let us know and keep in touch as we'll be adding more tools and services soon. Contact us or sign up for our email list.

Work With the Best Energy Contractors

Being smart about energy means working with the best energy contractors. Many general contractors are excellent and able to tackle a variety of tasks, however properly improving home energy efficiency requires specialization. We screen all of the contractors to ensure that you're working with the best ones.

For Energy Contractors

We're looking to work with the very best home performance and energy-focused contractors in the industry. Our goal is to connect you with homeowners in a way that is friendly and low pressure for both the homeowner and you, the contractor. Click here to learn more.

Our Team

Leadership

Aaron Goldfeder: CEO and co-founder

Aaron is a former Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. He was a key leader on Internet Explorer, Windows XP, Local Search and a Microsoft Internal Cloud Services Platform. Aaron holds three patents, loves to snowboard and eat Asian food.

Leo Shklovskii: CTO and co-founder

Leo has been a developer focused on web applications at Amazon.com, Redfin and D.E. Shaw. He has created novel and effective data visualization at Amazon as well as done critical architectural and scaling work at Redfin and Amazon.

Scott Case: VP Business Development and Marketing

Scott has expertise in online marketing technologies and software product management from five years at aQuantive, where he led product management and marketing for Microsoft/aQuantive's ad serving tools. While at Microsoft, Scott led the 2008 acquisition of Rapt, Inc. -- provider of advertising data analysis and yield management tools for online publishers.

Amy Ring: Director of Client Relations

Amy has five years of business development and client relations expertise from working as a headhunter in Silicon Valley, where she helped grow several successful pre-IPO start-ups. She is completing her masters in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan with a focus on sustainable development.

Karl Siebrecht: Chairman and co-founder

Karl is formerly President of Atlas, the technology division of aQuantive, Inc. He helped grow Atlas from a startup to the market share leader in five years leading to Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive for $6 billion in 2007. He has deep experience and expertise in online media, go-to-market strategies and operations management.

Advisers

Michael Blasnik: Technical

Michael is an expert in statistical analysis of utility billing and energy usage data, assessment and refinement of engineering algorithms for predicting energy usage and savings, and the mathematical modeling of building performance. In addition, he is a noted national expert with 25 years experience working with utilities, private industry and government agencies.

Brian Schultz: Finance

Brian co-founded two venture-backed technology companies: Ontela and Plectix Biosystems. Most recently at Ontela, Brian served as COO where he led strategic planning, business development, finance, and operations from founding to 35 employees. Prior, he spent over 5 years at Microsoft working on business development, intellectual property strategy and acquisitions, responsible for the commitment of over $400 million in capital.

Aaron Fairchild: Residential Energy Financing

Aaron has been working for the past four years to create energy efficient consumer financing solutions for existing buildings. He serves on the mayor's "Existing Buildings, Green Building" task force and is a consultant to ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia on the development of a revolving loan fund for residential energy efficient retrofits. He recently worked in the Residential Energy Efficiency Department of Puget Sound Energy.

David Bangs: Home Performance

David Bangs, a former Microsoft engineer and manager, is heavily involved in home performance companies as an investor and industry organizer. He is a member of the Northwest Energy Angels and an advisor to several VC funds on residential energy issues. David is the founder of Home Performance Washington, chairs Efficiency First's state and local action committee and serves on the Union of Concerned Scientists national advisory board.