Andy Leventhal

CEO

Andy Leventhal comes to Recurve with 24 years of experience in software sales and marketing. Most recently, he served as the founding CEO of Planet Metrics, a company that targeted manufacturers who needed tools to model, analyze and manage the carbon and energy consumed by their supply chain. He was instrumental in selling this company to Parametric Technology (PTC) in January 2010. Prior to that Andy served as the VP of Business Development/Channels for Sana Security (intrusion prevention) and held similar positions at Imperva (web/database security). Earlier in his career Andy, held leadership positions in business development at Red Hat (the leader in enterprise Linux), and served as one of the founders of VeriSign (the leader in digital certificates).

Andy calls himself a closet DIYer, meaning he is happiest when engaged in some home improvement project. An avid football and basketball fan, Andy is proud that he hasn't missed a televised Pittsburgh Steeler's game in 8 years, thanks to TiVo. Andy spends his spare time with his wife and 2 children and enjoys mentoring recent college graduates and early career professionals on how best to prepare themselves in the work force, no small feat in today's economy with its high unemployment rates among this demographic.

He is currently advising The Natural Capital Project, Coyle Industries, and the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Andy holds a BS degree from the University of Rhode Island and an international marketing degree from Richmond College in London.  

Adam Winter

Vice President & Co-Founder

Adam Winter is Vice President & Co-Founder of Recurve. He is a systems thinker and is inspired by the challenge of bringing the best sustainable housing concepts to the urban and suburban environments to effect massive change in our existing housing stock. Adam’s goal is to reduce America’s energy budget by one percent by bringing residential energy upgrades to scale in a profitable, market based fashion.

In the early days of Recurve (formerly Sustainable Spaces) Adam ran the operations and brought innovation and process to the retrofitting business and Net Zero Energy projects. Today he is responsible for porting much of that learning over into the Recurve Software platform to enable Home Performance programs and contractors to thrive, and the industry to scale.

Adam graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Renewable Resource Management and was a consultant in British Columbia, Canada where he specialized in watershed restoration.

Elisabeth Boonin

Vice President of Engineering

Elisabeth joined Recurve in 2009 as a 20-year software industry veteran. She has led development teams for a diverse range of companies:  from industry giant Microsoft, where she worked as a Director and Software Development Manager, to startups like Wallop and Digital Evolution, where she built successful engineering and operations teams from the ground up.

Over the last decade, she has specialized in creating Software-as-a-Service offerings on both Windows and Linux platforms. Her management focuses on building teams of highly talented individuals who collaborate well, ensuring they have clear goals and removing obstacles that block their progress. She measures her success both by the productivity of her team and the happiness its members, two factors that she sees as inextricably connected.

When not at work she loves games and puzzles of all kinds, is a doting dog-mom of 3, and is striving to achieve excellence as a RockBand3 pro guitar player. She holds an MS in mathematics from the University of Oregon and a BA in mathematics from Reed College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Matt Golden

Founder & Advisor

Matt Golden is the co-founder of Recurve Inc., a BPI Accredited Home Performance Retrofitting firm and a provider of tablet based energy auditing software for the home performance industry.

Matt is a national leader in the energy efficiency industry, is Policy Chair of Efficiency First, a national trade association representing 1,200 contractors and manufacturers in the home performance field. Matt serves on a number of national and state nonprofit boards, including the Building Performance Institute (BPI), National Home Performance Council, California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA), Affordable Comfort Institute (ACI), Home Performance Resource Center and Efficiency First. He is also a member of the DOE State Energy Efficiency Action Committee, charged with developing a long-term road map to achieve our national energy efficiency goals.

Matt advised national policymakers in crafting the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) legislation that was included in the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009. Later, working with the White House and the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Matt was instrumental in developing Home Star, a $6 billion bipartisan jobs initiative that passed the House in 2010. Home Star was supported by a broad coalition representing over 3,000 companies and NGOs, including small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, labor and social justice groups, and the environmental community.

Matt was recently recognized by the Building Performance Institute as the first ever recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry, and was awarded the One-Change Catalyst Award for his nonprofit leadership. He speaks extensively on market transformation in the energy efficiency industry and has authored articles in Forbes, Huffington Post, and GreenTech Media, and published influential policy papers such as “Taking on the Tool-Belt Recession” co-written with the Center for American Progress. Matt has been featured in numerous articles in publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, LA Times, USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Economist and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Matt Golden combines a deep technical understanding of energy efficiency with market experience gained from over six years running a growing small business and expertise in the arenas of both California and Federal energy policy.

Matt holds a bachelor's degree in foreign relations from Georgetown University and is a licensed California contractor.