MEET THE BOARD

Selena Cuffe

Selena Cuffe has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2025. She is currently the Chief Growth Officer for the professional services firm Blackstone Consulting, Inc. and RJB Properties and serves on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as the Los Angeles Branch Director.

Ms. Cuffe has a successful track record of growing global organizations and has been recognized for building go-to-market strategies that accelerate revenue. She was previously President of SodexoMagic, a 6,000-person firm owned by Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and was a co-founder of Heritage Link Brands, LLC., where she served as President & CEO and was instrumental in opening commercial markets for black South African wine producers globally.

Ms. Cuffe earned a Master of Business Administration, with honors, from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, with minors in Spanish & Portuguese, from Stanford University. She has been awarded Les Batisseursde l’Économie Africaine (Africa Economy Builders Award), served as an audit committee for the Harvard Business School African American Alumni Association (HBSAA), and currently chairs the Nominating & Governance Committee for the Harvard Business School Women Students Alumnae board, as well as advising the Stanford University Bing Overseas Studies Programs (BOSP).

Thomas Lause

Thomas Lause has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2021. He previously served as the interim Chief Financial Officer of our company from March 2023 to January 2024. Before this role, Mr. Lause served as the Vice President of Business Affairs, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer at the University of Findlay from February 2018 until he retired in June 2022.

Mr. Lause previously held multiple roles at Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, or Cooper Tire, from August 1983 until retiring in February 2018. From January 2015 to February 2018, Mr. Lause served as Cooper Tire’s Treasurer and Vice President of Treasury & Tax. From June 2002 to December 2014, Mr. Lause served as Vice President of Finance, and Global Operations Controller of Cooper Tire. Mr. Lause also served as the leader of Cooper Tire’s European operations from 1999 to 2003 while stationed in the United Kingdom.

Beyond his corporate roles, Mr. Lause has served on the board of Blanchard River Watershed Solutions since 2015 and previously served on the board of the Ohio Manufacturers Association, the advisory board of Bowling Green State University’s College of Business as a board member, and the Finance Committee Chair for the Findlay-Hancock County Alliance (Chamber of Commerce) and Finance Committee Chair for The Alliance economic development organization. Mr. Lause also currently serves on the Finance Committee for the Blanchard Valley Health System, a position he has held since July 2023, and he has served on the Board of Trustees for the Blanchard Valley Health System since January 2024.

Mr. Lause holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University. He is also a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Executive Leadership Program and holds a Certificate of Public Accounting from the state of Ohio.

Thomas Spang

Thomas Spang has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2021, and as the Lead Independent Director of our board since January 2024. Mr. Spang also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Power AG, or Advanced Power, which he co-founded in 2004. Advanced Power is an Independent Power Producer that operates in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland footprint.

In addition to his Chief Executive Officer role at Advanced Power, Mr. Spang has also served as a member of its Compensation Committee since April 2023, and he currently serves as an Executive Board Member, a member of its Senior Management Committee, and as a Founding Shareholder. Before co-founding Advanced Power, from 1995 to 2004, Mr. Spang was the Vice President and Head of UK Development for InterGen, a developer, owner, and operator of power generation facilities. Before joining InterGen, from 1992 to 1995, Mr. Spang was a developer for J. Makowski Company, a Boston-based developer of combined heat and power and independent power producer projects.

Mr. Spang holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Hobart College in New York.

Donald Templin

Donald Templin has served as an independent member of our board of directors and as the chair of our audit committee since December 2021. Since November 2022, Mr. Templin has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Voya Financial Services (NYSE: VOYA), a health, wealth, and investment management company.

From June 2011 to January 2021, Mr. Templin worked at Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC), a petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company, where he held multiple roles, including from June 2011 to February 2015 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, as Executive Vice President – Supply, Transportation and Marketing from March 2015 to December 2015, as President of MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) from January 2016 to June 2019, as President of MPC from July 2017 to June 2019, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from July 2019 to January 2021.

Mr. Templin’s career began at PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC, in 1984, where he held various roles, including leading the PwC business in Kazakhstan and leading PwC’s audit practice in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Mr. Templin has served as a non-executive board member and audit committee chair for Aris Water Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ARIS), an environmental infrastructure company that provides water handling and recycling solutions for energy operations, since October 2021 and previously served as a non-executive board and audit committee member for Calgon Carbon Corporation, a manufacturer and supplier of granular activated carbon, from May 2013 to March 2018 and as an executive board member for MPLX LP from October 2012 to July 2021.

Mr. Templin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Grove City College.

Jon Wellinghoff

Jon Wellinghoff has served as an independent director of our board since December 2021. In April 2017, he co-founded GridPolicy, Inc., a company dedicated to furthering the deployment of and investment in clean sustainable DERs, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since its inception.

Since March 2021, Mr. Wellinghoff has served as the Chief Regulatory Officer of Voltus, Inc., a platform that connects DERs to electricity markets. He also previously served as the Chief Policy Officer at SolarCity, a company that was involved in the sale and installation of solar energy generation systems, from April 2016 to April 2017. Before joining SolarCity, Mr. Wellinghoff was a partner at the law firm Stoel Rives LLP from November 2013 to April 2016.

From 2006 to 2013, Mr. Wellinghoff served as a Commissioner of FERC, and he served as the commission’s longest-serving Chairman from 2009 to 2013. In July 2023, Mr. Wellinghoff was appointed by Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, to serve on the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee.

Mr. Wellinghoff holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Nevada-Reno, a Master’s degree in Teaching Mathematics from Howard University, and a Juris Doctor degree from Antioch Law School.

Jereme Kent

Jereme Kent is the Founder and CEO of One Power Company. Under his leadership, One Power is trailblazing the creation of the customer-centric power grid of the future. At One Power, Mr. Kent has the ultimate responsibility for the safety, quality, overall corporate performance, and strategic growth of the enterprise.

Before founding One Power, Mr. Kent led the construction of some of the world’s premier wind projects. He worked for RMT, M.A. Mortensen, D.H. Blattner, and other large utility-scale wind energy contractors as a field engineer, erection superintendent, and site manager. He has overseen more than a billion dollars in wind turbine construction.

Mr. Kent attended the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, where he studied Civil Engineering with a focus on construction management. He left Michigan with just one class remaining to help run turbine erection at what was then the world’s largest wind project.

Kent maintains several certifications, including being a Tower Rescue Instructor, a Crane Operator, a Critical Lift Director, and an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician. Mr. Kent has actively participated in every step of the process to develop, engineer, procure, construct, operate, and finance wind energy and high-voltage infrastructure projects. He is a dirty shoes person who has become a clean shoes person (most of the time).

Jereme founded One Power in 2009.