Mission

Accelerate the transition to a
clean energy grid through flexible
demand-side resources

about us
About us

Our Story

Recurve connects the dots between efficiency, electrification, renewable energy, and DERs to enable demand flexibility to become a market-based procurable resource.

Since 2015, we have dedicated ourselves to creating transparent methods and open-source software to revolutionize the way energy efficiency is measured, deployed and procured.

The Recurve Platform provides leading utilities, regulators, and aggregators with a secure, scalable solution that enables markets for demand flexibility as a resource.
our management Team
Our Management Team

A trusted resource

Our team of policy experts, efficiency veterans, leading data scientists and world class software engineers is at the heart of what makes Recurve great. We are passionate about what we do, we love our customers and we think data is fun!

Zach Robin

Zach Robin

Chief Executive Officer

Zach Robin has over two decades of experience in the energy industry, passionately working to accelerate the clean energy transition. As CEO of Hatch Data, he led the company to become North America’s preeminent real estate decarbonization platform. At EnerNOC, he led product innovation and significantly contributed to its acquisition by Enel.

Zach is committed to the intersection of sustainability and technology. He is excited to bring his strategic vision and ability to build high-performing teams to Recurve.  

He holds an MBA and MS from the University of Michigan and a BS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.

Carmen Best

Carmen Best

Chief Policy Officer

As the leader of Recurve's policy team, Carmen works to understand and help shape the national policy and regulatory landscape and its impact on demand flexibility. 

Before working at Recurve, Carmen was head of Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) for the California Public Utilities Commission where she facilitated the Commission’s transition to standardized data and reporting, priority-based evaluation planning, and stakeholder engagement processes to manage its large-scale energy efficiency evaluation portfolio. She brought the findings and insights from these efforts to statewide energy policy through demand forecasting, integrated resource planning, and overall improvements in the deployment of energy efficiency. 

Carmen holds a master’s degree from the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mark Kinsella

Mark Kinsella

Chief Technology Officer

Mark has spent years scaling software platforms and teams with companies like Lyft and Opendoor. He brings that experience to Recurve where he can put it to use building scalable software and analytics and fighting climate change.

At Opendoor, Mark oversaw the engineering organization and helped scale their platforms and teams. Before that, he built and led numerous engineering teams at Lyft, including in the Support & Internal Tools, Safety & Insurance, and Driver Divisions. He eventually helped the company through its IPO.

Mark has a  Bachelor of Science in computer science and engineering from UC San Diego.

C.J. Tinloy

C.J. Tinloy

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer

C.J. Tinloy is a CPA with a passion for people and data-driven insights. She brings extensive experience helping startups scale to Recurve.

After graduating from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, C.J. started her career at Ernst & Young but soon found her niche at the intersection of finance and technology. She "earned her ears" leading the mobile game finance team at Disney Interactive and solidified her expertise during a four-year tenure at Electronic Arts' mobile gaming division. In C.J.'s startup journey, she helped several companies (including two unicorns) through multiple rounds of financing, including three acquisitions. 

Adam Scheer

Adam Scheer

Vice President, Applied Data Science

Adam Scheer has spent his career working to help address the challenge of transitioning to a clean energy economy.

Adam received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado-Boulder.  After spending a decade immersed in fundamental physics research, Adam moved to the EM&V group at PG&E. While there, he initially worked to connect research and data analytics to the energy efficiency portfolio. Adam later supervised the Residential Programs team as they were laying the foundation for a transition to meter-based pay-for-performance. 

Finally, as the principal member of the policy group, he focused on cost-effectiveness and market transformation. Along the way, he led customer targeting research that is now being deployed across PG&E’s P4P programs.

Alyssia (Lis) Byers

Alyssia (Lis) Byers

Vice President, Technical Programs and Strategy

Lis joined the Recurve team in 2017 to lead customer success initiatives including onboarding, training, testing and support for existing and new users.

Prior to joining Recurve, Lis held similar roles for several companies, including as VP of Customer Success for 17hats, where she established extensive training and onboarding programs, as well as leading a 24/7/365 customer support team.  

She graduated first in her class at Humber College, where she studied Computer Engineering.

Phil Ngo

Phil Ngo

Vice President, Engineering

Phil began working with the Recurve team in 2014 and was the chief developer of the open-source Python package that would form the basis of the OpenEEmeter. In 2016, he joined the team full-time, where his role grew to include building the Recurve dashboard analytics backend (data warehouse) among other responsibilities.

An advocate of using science for social good, Phil has always looked for opportunities to use his engineering skills to make a difference in the world. Prior to joining Recurve, Phil worked as a developer at the Impact Lab, where he built data products for clients in energy efficiency and nonprofit sectors with large data assets, and at Effortless Energy, where he designed and implemented methods to calculate the energy and monetary savings of residential energy efficiency measures, including smart thermostats and envelope retrofits.

Phil has a degree in Chemistry from Harvard University.

Cara Marie

Cara Marie

Vice President of Security & Infrastructure

Cara's commitment to securing digital landscapes and building resilient infrastructure is the heart of her role at Recurve. She combines her extensive experience, professional rigor, and a constant drive for knowledge to bring about measurable progress and positive impact. 

Cara began her career in the field as a Security Consultant for iSEC Partners. Her passion for cybersecurity led her to the position of Research Director at NCC Group, focusing on offensive security research.

Cara later joined Datadog, where she established and led the company's offensive security team while also managing incident response and defensive security. Her work at Datadog laid the groundwork for her next role at Opendoor, where she managed their incident response and offensive security. 

A respected figure within the cybersecurity community, Cara frequently shares her insights at renowned security conferences such as Black Hat, Usenix Enigma, and Derbycon. 

Dave Yeager

Dave Yeager

Director of Data Infrastructure

Dave Yeager is a passionate advocate for peer-to-peer knowledge and distributed energy resources.

Yeager joined Recurve in September 2016 to support the onboarding of the company’s growing customer base. He currently leads the development of Recurve's data pipeline, where he works closely with clients to develop seamless back-end systems to clean, sort, and upload energy data into the Recurve meter platform.

Before joining Recurve, Yeager was a Director at BlackRock investment management, where he focused on automation systems for institutional fund clients including approximately a half trillion dollars in order flows per year. His responsibilities also included web design and development for order placement and portfolio analysis products, including the MoneyFund Aggregator transparency project.

He is a graduate of Villanova University.

Anja Trost

Anja Trost

Director of Finance

After earning her Bachelor’s in Business Administration in Accounting and her Master's in Taxation at Gonzaga University, Anja began her career as a public accountant for Deloitte Tax. She later shifted her career to focus on finance and joined an M&A/Transaction advisory consulting firm as an Associate and later Senior Associate.

She was excited to join Recurve, where she had the opportunity to apply her tax and finance experience to a growing, mission-driven company.

Brian Gerke

Brian Gerke

Director of Forecasting and Methods

Brian spent the last decade leading research and policy analysis efforts on energy efficiency and demand response at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Brian is excited to join the Recurve team to help connect energy efficiency and demand response with the grid value they deliver. 

Before his tenure at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, Brian spent about a decade as a research physicist, studying observational cosmology and galaxy evolution at UC Berkeley and Stanford. Brian completed his undergraduate degree at Williams College, his Master's from Cambridge University (UK), and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

Alex Pollard

Alex Pollard

Director of Customer Solutions

Alex has worked in program and project management for over 20 years in the energy, construction, and real estate fields. He joined Recurve in 2021 to continue working at the leading edge of energy efficiency and make an impact on climate change.

For six years he was the energy efficiency commercial and industrial programs manager at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. During this time, he worked with utilities and stakeholders on $2+ billion of dollars of utility efficiency program spending. He also oversaw grant programs on high-performance buildings and innovative technologies, helped launch a commercial PACE financing program in the state, and was a primary contributor to the first in-the-world energy regulations on the cannabis industry.

Alex earned a Masters in Real Estate Development from Arizona State University and a degree in Communications from Boston University. 

Customers

What our customers say about us

“Recurve will provide NYSERDA, NYS utilities, and the market ongoing transparency into the impacts of energy efficiency implementations within the Business Energy Pro initiative. NYSERDA is very excited about the potential to increase market confidence in energy efficiency investments and test how near-real time performance data can help to improve energy efficiency outcomes, as well as more closely align incentives with savings as they occur.”
"Recurve is enabling the Energy Trust to reduce the cost of evaluation, while providing much more real time and transparent feedback. We can now focus on how evaluation data can be used to improve programs, by automating the time consumption process of data preparation, and number crunching."
"Recurve has automated the historically difficult process of attaining customer usage data, which is enabling both BIG and its contractor partners to qualify customers, track savings, and build solutions that are optimized to both work for the market and homeowners, and that deliver value to the grid and the climate.”
Support Center
Contact Us