OUR TEAM

Andrew J. Bernstein, Managing Partner

Recently named an Entrepreneur of the Year® 2019 Award Finalist in New England, Mr. Bernstein has over twenty-eight years of executive leadership experience managing a broad range of organizations and divisions of large publicly traded corporations to early stage entrepreneurial enterprises with two successful exits. Mr. Bernstein served as CEO & President of Cymfony Inc., a market intelligence and media analysis company which was purchased by TNS Media in 2007 and then WPP PLC.

Previously, he was managing Partner of HotHouse Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital and consulting organization, and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Articulate Systems, a software company specializing in voice and data applications acquired by Lernout & Hauspie in 1999. In addition, Mr. Bernstein has also worked in investment banking where he focused on capital formation, project finance and mergers and acquisitions. He also started and ran the global division of a publicly traded NYSE company for five years. Mr. Bernstein has significant experience working with the Federal Government and Intelligence Agencies leading Cymfony to obtain a Secret Clearance and become a supplier to several intelligence agencies. He also currently serves on or leads several for-profit and non-profit boards. Mr. Bernstein is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School with Honors.

Gregory Igo, Vice President Finance and Operations

Mr. Igo joined Kearsarge Energy in August 2020.  With over 20+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting and Operations, Mr. Igo is an accomplished finance and operations executive with a proven track record of leading value initiatives, streamlining operational flow, implementing technology solutions, improving cross functional collaboration, and building high performance teams.

Previously, he worked at NxStage Medical, A Fresenius Medical Company, heading up the Domestic and International Logistics team, supporting patients in the US, Canada, and Europe.  Mr. Igo had P&L responsibility for Logistics as well as directed the import, export, and shipping compliance functions.  Mr. Igo also worked at Staples, having multiple roles in accounting, financial planning and analysis, system integrations, technology and planning and operations. 

Mr. Igo earned a BA in Economics from Colby College and an MBA from Babson College.

Everett W. Tatelbaum, Vice President

Mr. Tatelbaum, a member of Kearsarge’s founding team, now leads strategy, finance, project development, asset management and energy policy.  He played a key role in the development, tax equity and debt financing, construction, and operations of Kearsarge's portfolio of more than 60 MW and $180 million of solar PV projects in New England and Hawaii, with a focus on partnerships with municipalities and other public organizations.  Mr. Tatelbaum's experience includes the structuring and deployment of multiple financing platforms and capital sources, including private equity, tax equity and debt.  Projects have included commercial and utility-scale capped landfills, brownfields, agricultural land, rooftops, parking canopies and greenfields.  Prior to the founding of Kearsarge he worked in Research at BCK Law, P.C. where he focused on energy efficiency and regulatory affairs.

Previously, Mr. Tatelbaum taught mathematics, completed a one-year AmeriCorps community service term and worked in Public Policy Research at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  In addition, he completed a ten-month intensive field study in sustainable agriculture and alternative energy (Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Greece).

Mr. Tatelbaum earned a BA from Wesleyan University and studied Finance at Harvard University.

Bethany A. Bartlett, Vice President and General Counsel

Ms. Bartlett joined Kearsarge Energy in March 2020, after working with the firm for over a decade while chairing the Renewable Energy Practice Group and a real estate partner at Sherin and Lodgen in Boston.  Her practice focused on the development, acquisition, disposition, and financing of commercial solar and storage projects throughout the country, with a specialty concentration in representing debt lenders in complex investment tax credit financing transactions.  Ms. Bartlett worked with renewable energy developers in all project stages: state and local permitting; negotiating power purchase, net metering and alternative on bill credit purchase agreements; rooftop and ground mounted leases, including brownfield sites; PILOT agreements and tax exemptions; construction contracts; and asset, development and membership interest purchase and sale agreements.  Prior to joining the firm in 2006, she practiced at Deutsch Williams Brooks DeRensis & Holland P.C. where she gained substantial experience representing municipalities, concentrating on real estate matters.

Ms. Bartlett has been named a Top Woman of the Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and a repeat honoree as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer.  Since 2017, she is a member of The Abstract Club, an association of experienced Massachusetts real estate lawyers limited to 100 members.  

Ms. Bartlett clerked in both the Massachusetts Land Court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court to the Honorable Rudolph Kass.  She holds a J.D from Suffolk University Law School and a B.S. in Finance from Bentley University.   In 2019, she completed the Abbott World Marathon Majors, while raising funds for charities. 

Patricia Fennessey, Director Asset Management

Ms. Fennessey is the Director of Asset Management concentrating on optimizing solar systems performance and Asset Management for Kearsarge Energy.  Ms. Fennessey held senior management and technology leadership roles in a variety of public and private firms in the management consulting, market intelligence, and high technology arenas.

Ms. Fennessey was Managing Partner for Utopia Inc, taking the company to a successful acquisition by USWeb.  At startup venture HUbX, Ms. Fennessey led Client Services until the company’s acquisition by Synxis.  At high tech social media company Cymfony, Ms. Fennessey led the development of its flagship technology platform, in addition to managing its Fortune 500 Client Management practice.  Most recently, Ms. Fennessey was Sales Director for Visible Technologies, (acquired by Cision, Inc), acquiring and managing its flagship portfolio of Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and high technology clients.

Ms. Fennessey began her career as a Systems Analyst and DBA in the mainframe era, which instigated her career-long fascination with all things “tech”. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with honors.

Dan Voss, Senior Director Project Development

Drawing on over 20 years of experience in both early stage and established companies across the energy sector, Mr. Voss builds business through asset acquisition and internally originated development.  Mr. Voss believes that the value system at Kearsarge is the engine driving its growth – partners and customers can trust the team to be entrepreneurial, solve the difficult problems and deliver on commitments.

Mr. Voss has previously held leadership roles in early stage and growth businesses in both the renewable and conventional energy sectors within the USA and abroad.  Working with landowners, contractors, investors, finance and the public sector he has been instrumental in delivering over $2 billion in energy projects globally.  Prior to Kearsarge, Mr. Voss was Vice President of Development at Brightfields Development, a brownfield solar company.  He also led Project Development and established the O&M organization at anaerobic digestor startup Vanguard Renewables, where his team fueled the company’s 5x growth in operating and construction capacity over 2 years.  Mr. Voss entered the sustainability field as co-founder of Rivermoor Systems and a Principal in Bonfire Powa LLC, where he created an energy resilience modeling tool for cities and towns and advanced over $10 million in municipal sector solar energy projects.

Before transitioning to the renewable energy space in 2013, Mr. Voss led the planning and operating strategy group for InterGen, a global electric generating company, also holding senior roles in general management, finance, commercial development, and operations management within the electricity and gas industries.

Mr. Voss holds a Wharton MBA, and a BEng from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Buttercup, Fat Olli, Fred Astaire et al., Summer Interns

The reader will forgive us for introducing the 2021 summer interns as a group – they actually prefer it that way. 

Prior to joining Kearsarge Energy, Ms. Buttercup, Mr. Olli, Mr. Astaire, and their cohorts, were under the care of Christian Stovall, our intrepid shepherd and organic livestock provisioner.  Owner and Operator of Hidden Mountain Farm, Mr. Stovall is a graduate of the University of Vermont, and is a premier solar grazing specialist, among other things. Mr. Stovall manages the wildly enthusiastic grazers at Kearsarge’s Great Barrington, MA solar array. 

In Rhode Island we were joined this year by Adam Yorks of Common Home Farm, located adjacent to our scenic Tiverton solar site. The farm’s energetic (and ravenous) Katahdin sheep made short work of vegetation management in 2021. The buzz is that bees fueled by habitat at the site may be producing “solar honey” next year!

Rounding out our stable of animal care specialists is Dr. Judy St Leger, Owner of Dutch Barn Farm, Veterinarian, and founding member of the American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA), who manages intern career development at our Johnstown, NY solar sites.

You’ll find the interns toiling under and around the solar panels discharging their sole responsibility, which is eating. Grass, weeds, poison ivy — they do what they like and they like what they do. With the exception of an irrational fear of our drone, the lambs have settled in very nicely, cuddling up under the panels at night, lounging when it’s hot, and of course, lunching. All day, every day.

Strained levity aside, grazing at Kearsarge arrays is a huge step forward in making solar energy truly sustainable.  Sheep preclude the use of loud, intrusive gas mowers at our sites, and they fertilize the flora as they graze, which is good for pollinators and other native species — all the while enhancing natural erosion control. 

You’ll find more lambscapers next year at various sites in the portfolio, so stay tuned for updates.