Sales and Marketing expert with 3 years of relevant experience within the renewable energy industry.
CHRISTOPHER METCALF
Professional Experience:
URBAN ECO ELECTRIC LLC (UEE)
Philadelphia, PA - (March 2009 - Present)
Sales & Marketing – Partner for a Solar Leasing Start-up for Residential and Commercial Electricity Consumers
• Sales: 100 signed leases in 100 days, personally signed 52 leases while managing and training 5 experienced salesmen (non-solar backgrounds) for the additional 48.
• Marketing: Developed email and event marketing collateral. Event planning for UEE promotional events. Attended environmental events on weekends promoting the UEE brand to the public so to increase prospective client pool.
• Website: Defined and managed the layout and content for the development of the UEE website: Go-UEE
• Operations for President: Drafted revisions of the UEE Lease and supporting documents, wrote marketing and confirmation emails for first 100 customers. Improving PowerPoint & Business Plan for investor meetings.
NEW ENERGY FINANCE Ltd.
New York, NY - (2007 - 2009)
New Energy Finance is the world’s leading provider of industry intelligence and analysis to investors, corporations and governments in clean energy, low carbon technologies and the carbon markets. Continuously monitoring market changes, deal flow and financial activity and allowing transparency.
Business Development, Associate
July 2008 – February 2009
• Coordinated own business development activity in the North East and Central United States.
• Interacted and engaged with senior management at global institutions and coordinated decisions at major accounts.
• Renewed and expanded existing relationships while simultaneously targeting and closing new clients.
• Planned with internal management to complete aggressive target goals in developing the U.S. market.
Business Development, Analyst
November 2007 – June 2008
• Developed and helped execute a business growth plan for the Americas market and other segments as necessary:
o Qualified 5-10 leads per day, cold calling 5-10 key individuals per day. Prospected targeted financial, energy, and corporate organizations across the renewable energy industry.
o Conducted 7-9 interested prospects per week via Web-Ex or Go-to-Meeting.
• Created and developed marketing research books, service and product summaries, and other prospecting materials for the Director of Business Development Americas.
• Implemented and expanded an up-sell strategy and client support protocol for all NEF Services in North America.
• Entered and tracked all sales activities using Salesforce.com as well as transcribing all data from Salesforce.com to a newer internal CRM system.
KLD RESEARCH & ANALYTICS
Boston, MA
KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. is an independent investment research firm providing management tools to professionals integrating environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their investment decisions.
Research Analyst for Research Department August 2006 – March 2007
• Researched Russell 3000 companies for Sustainable Investment Research International Professional (SiRi Pro)
o Analyzed American-based global companies and rated their corporate social responsibility and/or their environmental social governance within 5 hours with 95% accuracy. Using eight key indicators for ratings.
o Analyzed annual reports, Social Responsibility reports, Climate Change/Environmental/Sustainability reports, proxy statements, press releases, websites, and other public documents related to CSR themes.
o Communicated directly with CFO’s and Investor Relations over the phone and through email to confirm environmental and social policies and practices.
• Maintained the Global Climate 100 Index:
o Researched companies involved in renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean technology and alternative fuels. Searched Factiva for new clean energy generation and how much energy efficiency has reduced electricity usage.
o Searched for potential GC 100 candidates, analyzed these new companies’ 10-K’s, Proxy Statements, websites, press releases and quantitatively and qualitatively compared their leadership with their GC 100 peer group
o Created company capsules for Senior Management to include on the GC 100 with a 75% approval rating.
Education:
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Brunswick, ME
Double Major: Bachelor of Arts (Government and Legal Studies & Environmental Studies)
May 2006
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA
Course on International Political Economy
Summer 2004
EPISCOPAL ACADEMY
June 2001
Additional:
• Computer Skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, G.I.S. (Geographic Information System)
• Men’s Varsity Squash 2002-2006
• Bowdoin College House Coordinator, 2003-2005. Bowdoin College House Treasurer, 2005-2006.
• Organized and managed budget for campus and community events.
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