Oliver Hoad
Environ Energy
Market Manager
Oliver leads the Food and Beverage division within Environ and is responsible for strategy development and managing the relationships within this sector. These strategies include the negotiation and management of electric and natural gas power contracts, demand response, renewables, efficiency, project funding, and GHG inventories. Prior to joining APPI now Environ, Oliver worked at Tesla where he developed solar and battery storage projects.
Environ Energy
Market Manager
Oliver leads the Food and Beverage division within Environ and is responsible for strategy development and managing the relationships within this sector. These strategies include the negotiation and management of electric and natural gas power contracts, demand response, renewables, efficiency, project funding, and GHG inventories. Prior to joining APPI now Environ, Oliver worked at Tesla where he developed solar and battery storage projects.
Ben Walker
Environ Energy
Vice President, Energy Strategies & Data Analytics
Ben Walker actively manages the firm’s leading-edge approach to the energy markets. This includes statistical probability modeling of market risk, tracking of multiple energy and non-energy pricing components in major US markets, impact of regulatory developments, on-site power generation performance, and investment analysis of solar and other renewable product designs.
Ben specializes in analyzing deep problems, such as developing our industry-leading market analytics, finding business solutions – especially around non-traditional energy (e.g. cogeneration, solar), and developing custom procurement strategies which balance competing priorities from finance and facilities. Additionally, he has a passion for sustainability and has worked with treasury departments from top health care institutions to change how they view investments in renewable energy. In his role, Ben focuses on the twin concepts of risk and value to help organizations make sound financial decisions.
Prior to working at Environ, Ben spent three years as a Research Engineer for academic labs in a hospital setting, helping facilitate basic-science experiments around prosthetic control. He has been published in the diverse fields of neuroscience, energy efficiency of IT equipment, and baseball. He enjoys the outdoors and coaches a local high school’s Ultimate Frisbee team. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Seattle Pacific University and a master’s degree in Energy & Sustainability from Northwestern University.
Environ Energy
Vice President, Energy Strategies & Data Analytics
Ben Walker actively manages the firm’s leading-edge approach to the energy markets. This includes statistical probability modeling of market risk, tracking of multiple energy and non-energy pricing components in major US markets, impact of regulatory developments, on-site power generation performance, and investment analysis of solar and other renewable product designs.
Ben specializes in analyzing deep problems, such as developing our industry-leading market analytics, finding business solutions – especially around non-traditional energy (e.g. cogeneration, solar), and developing custom procurement strategies which balance competing priorities from finance and facilities. Additionally, he has a passion for sustainability and has worked with treasury departments from top health care institutions to change how they view investments in renewable energy. In his role, Ben focuses on the twin concepts of risk and value to help organizations make sound financial decisions.
Prior to working at Environ, Ben spent three years as a Research Engineer for academic labs in a hospital setting, helping facilitate basic-science experiments around prosthetic control. He has been published in the diverse fields of neuroscience, energy efficiency of IT equipment, and baseball. He enjoys the outdoors and coaches a local high school’s Ultimate Frisbee team. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Seattle Pacific University and a master’s degree in Energy & Sustainability from Northwestern University.
Jennifer Kearney
Environ Energy
President, Sustainability
Jennifer served as the Director of Energy Programs for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital in the United States. In that role, Jennifer managed a $70 million energy procurement portfolio including power, renewables, natural gas, and fuel oil. In addition to procurement of supply, Jennifer oversaw the development and construction of an 8MW synchronous cogeneration system. Her efforts resulted in savings of over $11 million annually, and ongoing national recognition by the EPA as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year.
Leveraging her expertise in the healthcare space, Jennifer founded Gotham 360 to support other healthcare organizations with strategies for the development and deployment of energy programs based on combining established best practices with innovation in the implementation of new technologies. Clients from the higher education, industrial, multi-family, and commercial sectors soon followed. In 2021, Gotham 360 merged with Hospital Energy LLC, a leading national energy procurement & commodities management firm and together launched Environ Energy.
Jennifer has both authored and been the subject of several articles published in national energy journals including Cogeneration & Onsite Power Production, Breakthrough, and Healthcare Facilities Management. She sits on the Board of NECHPI, the BOMA Energy & Sustainability Committee, and chairs the Education committee for the New York Energy Consumers Council.
Environ Energy
President, Sustainability
Jennifer served as the Director of Energy Programs for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital in the United States. In that role, Jennifer managed a $70 million energy procurement portfolio including power, renewables, natural gas, and fuel oil. In addition to procurement of supply, Jennifer oversaw the development and construction of an 8MW synchronous cogeneration system. Her efforts resulted in savings of over $11 million annually, and ongoing national recognition by the EPA as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year.
Leveraging her expertise in the healthcare space, Jennifer founded Gotham 360 to support other healthcare organizations with strategies for the development and deployment of energy programs based on combining established best practices with innovation in the implementation of new technologies. Clients from the higher education, industrial, multi-family, and commercial sectors soon followed. In 2021, Gotham 360 merged with Hospital Energy LLC, a leading national energy procurement & commodities management firm and together launched Environ Energy.
Jennifer has both authored and been the subject of several articles published in national energy journals including Cogeneration & Onsite Power Production, Breakthrough, and Healthcare Facilities Management. She sits on the Board of NECHPI, the BOMA Energy & Sustainability Committee, and chairs the Education committee for the New York Energy Consumers Council.