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.

Tyson Buerkle

Site Acquisition / Managing Director

Tyson Buerkle is the Managing Director of BlueWave's Site Acquisition team, responsible for BlueWave’s project pipeline growth. Tyson has over a decade of renewable energy experience with a track record of building markets and scaling impact. Before joining BlueWave, Tyson served as Senior Renewable Energy Specialist at Colorado Springs Utilities and Director of Operations for Sunlight Solar Energy's Colorado office. Tyson has an Executive Master of Global Management from Thunderbird and a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources from Cornell University.

As BlueWave continues to expand its national footprint and grow from developer to owner and operator, Tyson will continue to play a key role in maintaining BlueWave's robust pipeline and market share.

Priya Chanduraj

Accounting / Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer, Priya leads BlueWave’s overall financial, accounting, budgeting, fiscal planning and risk management functions and provides strategic direction as a member of the senior executive team.

Priya has a background in financial excellence and management within the energy industry, where she has held several senior roles overseeing all aspects of finance and accounting, specializing in financial transformations for fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining BlueWave, Priya served as Finance Transformation Officer, managing ~60% of $25b revenue portfolio at Schneider Electric. She previously led large finance transformation for IFC (World Bank affiliate) in derivations group and before that worked at AES Corporation in various roles. Priya is a Chartered Accountant from India and Bachelor’s in Commerce from Bangalore University.

Deborah Collum

Legal / Chief Legal Officer

As Chief Legal Officer at BlueWave, Deb is responsible for overseeing all legal functions of BlueWave’s corporate operations and solar and battery storage development activities and serves as a member of the Senior Executive Team.

Deb comes to BlueWave with a strong background in the renewable energy industry, where she has years of experience providing insight and guidance to innovative renewable energy companies. Prior to joining BlueWave, Deb served as General Counsel to Solect Energy and to NEC Energy Solutions where she advanced renewable energy deployment and was an active member of the Executive Team.

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.

Elizabeth Glynn

Community Solar Partnerships / Managing Director

Elizabeth (Betsy) Glynn is the Managing Director for Community Solar Partnerships at BlueWave Solar, working to help more residents, businesses and public institutions to save money and be part of the energy revolution. Collaborating with public and private stakeholders, Betsy ensures that BlueWave's solar customers meet program eligibility requirements and investor underwriting thresholds to maximize project viability.
Based in Boston, Betsy has worked with multifamily building owners to implement energy efficiency and water conservation measures, healthy housing practices and renewable power installations to benefit low- and moderate-income communities. She was an appointed voting member of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council (2014-2017), served as a member of the steering committee of the Network for Energy, Water and Health in Affordable Buildings (NEWHAB; 2015-2017), co-chaired the BuildingEnergy Boston conference (2017-2018) and 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.

Trevor Hardy

Co-Founder / CEO

Trevor is the co-founder and CEO of BlueWave, a pioneering solar and battery storage developer, owner, and operator with a mission to protect the planet by transforming access to renewable energy. A certified B Corp, BlueWave has received both national and international recognition for its work to revolutionize the energy markets.

Trevor leads all aspects of BlueWave’s operations and expansion activity within the United States. He also sits on the board of two companies which were successfully spun out of BlueWave: Beam Financing Technology, a home solar loan provider, and Perch Energy, a community solar servicing provider.

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. There he built extensive expertise in acquisitions, development, financing and asset management, successfully closed on $1.25 billion in acquisitions, and was also the Regional Finance Director of the Boston region. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Trevor worked as a development consultant at CB Richard Ellis Whittier Partners and was a consultant to the World Bank.

Born and raised in South Africa, Trevor was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study at MIT, where he completed dual Master of Science degrees in Design Technology and Real Estate Development and was the recipient of a Skye Foundation Fellowship. He also holds a Bachelor of Building Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Port Elizabeth (South Africa). Trevor was recognized as an Earth Advocate and top Environmental Leader by RealLeaders Awards in 2021.

Shawn Jones

Storage Development / Managing Director

As a Managing Director of Storage Development at BlueWave, Shawn is currently responsible for the diligence, design, and deployment of BlueWave's NYISO transmission scale storage and New York distribution scale storage projects after handing off MA and CT storage development responsibilities. He also represents BlueWave on the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA) Storage & New Technologies Subcommittee and the Browning the Green Space (BGS) Companies Committee. Outside of BlueWave, Shawn is a board member of the MA Climate Action Network (MCAN) and an external advisory board member for Boston University's Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health (BU URBAN).

While at the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE), Shawn previously served as the third-party administrator of MOR-EV and CHEAPR, the statewide electric vehicle rebate programs in MA and CT, respectively, and spent over six years as a Director for the U.S. DOE Western Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership (CHPTAP). During his tenure, Shawn and his team provided DOE-subsidized technical assistance in the form of energy audits, CHP screenings and feasibility studies for over 1100 clients in the states of California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona. He also led eight technology demonstration projects for the CA Energy Commission and served as a technical advisor for three CEC projects, the Institute of Gas Innovation and Technology (I-GIT) at Stony Brook University and the Industrial Review Board (IRB) for Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Prior to joining CSE, Shawn spent 15 years leading technology demonstration and market transformation programs that included founding 50 Mile Energy LLC, an early-stage cleantech development company in Atlanta formed to build, own, operate and manage community-based renewable energy facilities primarily on the East Coast and holding engineering & project management roles at Green Power Solutions in Woodstock, CT; Southern Research Institute in Durham, NC; Changing World Technologies in West Hempstead, NY; and General Atomics in San Diego (his hometown).

Shawn holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and currently resides in Adams House at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA with his wife Shandra, three kids (Ella, Dash, Nilaya) and family dog, Pip.

Michael Marsch

Development / Chief Development Officer

Mike Marsch is Chief Development Officer at BlueWave. Joining BlueWave in June 2013, Mike built and managed BlueWave's Solar Project Development and Construction team from the ground up as the company grew from tiny startup to nationally-recognized impact company. He also personally managed development of 60+ MW of ground-mounted PV projects, including two of the first community solar projects in MA and one of the largest solar projects in the Commonwealth. From 2018-2020 Mike led BlueWave's community solar services business, now branded Perch Energy, from initial revenue to successful spinout from BlueWave. Mike now oversees all project development at BlueWave including solar, energy storage, and a sustainability team dedicated to dual-use and agrivoltaics.

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 Operations / Managing Director

Kavita Ravi

Grid Integration / Managing Director

Dr. Kavita Ravi is the Managing Director of Grid Integration at BlueWave, where she is responsible for interconnection for both BlueWave’s solar and storage projects.

Previously, she led programs to demonstrate viable business models for energy storage at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). In 2016, she co-led the State of Charge report that explored the market opportunities and barriers for energy storage in Massachusetts. At MassCEC, she also established a program to support universities and companies leverage clean energy funding opportunities. Prior to MassCEC, Kavita worked on microgrids and energy access issues with the U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. From 2011 through 2013, she served as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy where she led market transforming programs to promote energy efficiency.

Kavita has a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and worked for several years in the private sector commercializing the technology of her doctoral research.

Bharath Srinivasan

Operations / Chief Operating Officer

Bharath Srinivasan is the Chief Operations Officer at BlueWave, responsible for BlueWave’s EPC, grid integration, operations and asset management/O&M teams. Bharath is a seasoned solar industry veteran with a rich background in execution. Over the last decade, he has held several senior roles overseeing origination, EPC, and asset management. Prior to joining BlueWave, Bharath served as Senior Vice President at Summit Ridge Energy overseeing technology and procurement. He previously headed Operations at Distributed Sun. Bharath has a Master’s in Solar Energy Engineering from UMass Lowell and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from SASTRA University.

As BlueWave continues to expand its abilities on the growth path from developer to owner and operator, Bharath will play a key role in building out the functionality for BlueWave to begin to construct and maintain projects throughout its lifecycle.

Mark Sylvia

Policy, Government Affairs, People & Marketing / Managing Director

Mark Sylvia joined BlueWave in January 2015 to help the company expand its solar development portfolio. Now, as Chief of Staff, Mark oversees the Policy and Government Affairs, People and Marketing teams and is responsible for corporate administration. He also represents BlueWave on the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) leadership committee. Outside of BlueWave, Mark is a board member and President of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England (SEBANE).

Mark previously served as a senior energy official in the Administration of former MA governor Deval Patrick, including as the first Green Communities Division Director, Department of Energy Resources Commissioner, and Undersecretary for Energy. During his tenure, he and his team implemented nation-leading clean energy policies resulting in a number-one ranking in energy efficiency four years in a row, surpassing the Governor’s solar energy goals four years early, and designating 155 cities and towns as Green Communities (a first in the national local clean energy initiative, now representing 286 cities and towns). He also 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. Previously, Mark spent 11 years in municipal government, five years of which were as Town Manager for the Town of Plymouth.

Mark 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 in his hometown of Fairhaven with his children, where he serves as the elected Town Moderator and serves on various local boards.

Michael Zimmer

Storage Development / Managing Director

Mike Zimmer is the Managing Director of Storage Development at BlueWave, responsible for the development of BlueWave's ISO-NE transmission scale storage and New England distribution scale storage projects.

Mike's career has spanned over 12 years in renewable energy development at Ameresco and Soltage before he joined BlueWave in 2021. He has developed over 200MW of solar and solar plus storage projects in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island sited on school roof tops, landfills, parking lots and green fields.

Mike holds a master's degree in Energy Systems from Northeastern University and a bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology from Connecticut College.