Efficiency Energy is dedicated to the idea that going green should make environmental and economic sense. We specialize in managing incentives and maximizing their value to help your projects pay for themselves.
William Volker – Co-Founder and Incentive Management Partner
While earning a Masters of Science in Accountancy at Wake Forest University, Volker concentrated on Tax Accounting and performed his Independent Study on the implementation of Energy Efficient Commercial Building Property Deductions from the 2005 Energy Policy Act. His research formed the basis of the Efficiency Energy business model and continues to set the company apart for its singular expertise in project certification and compliance per IRS guidelines. He continually studies emerging legislation, financing, incentives and technologies to integrate with future projects.
Trey Littell - Co-Founder and Project Management Partner
After studying entrepreneurship at Colorado State University, Trey started the Paint Project, a company marketing painting and construction services to the Colorado Front Range that provided much-needed summer jobs to college kids on summer vacations. After achieving ‘year round’ success, Littell sold his interests in the venture and lent his project management and marketing skills to energy conservation projects as a founding member of Efficiency Energy, LLC. He continues to improve the company’s project implementation strategies as well as develop and maintain sales partnerships.
David Stafford Johnson, currently an owner, director or general counsel to several emerging companies, has an extensive domestic and international corporate and entrepreneurial background in mergers and acquisitions, finance, strategic planning and structuring, and major project development, in administering complex, multi-jurisdictional legal affairs, litigation and transaction negotiation and documentation, and in technology and intellectual property commercialization. Mr. Johnson is licensed to practice law in the States of Arizona, Texas and Colorado. A graduate of Dartmouth College with an MBA from Arizona State University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona, and post-graduate certificates from Denver University, Harvard University and the Colorado School of Mines. Mr. Johnson has worked in executive legal, corporate development, strategic planning and financial and management capacities both with domestic non-profit companies and with domestic and international for-profit companies in the consumer products, telecommunications, venture capital, oil and gas and natural resource sectors, and is currently also serving as Executive Chairman of a publicly trading company (Aurelio Resource Corporation), and teaching as an Adjunct Professor at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Steve Stookesberry is a Denver native who built his family-owned lumber and building material supply business to over $35 million before selling to BMC West in 1994. He was responsible for all aspects of the retail building material supply business including sales, purchasing, human resources, operations and financial reporting. Steve is currently President of Business Development Resources, Inc., a consulting intermediary, helping businesses grow by developing new markets and raising capital to fund future growth. Headquartered in Denver, Business Development Resources works with early stage companies as well as established small and mid-sized organizations representing a variety of industries.
Gordon Yale is the principal of Yale & Company, a Denver-based forensic accounting and financial consulting firm that specializes in securities fraud and audit negligence matters as well as the founder of Yale Group, Inc., a boutique investment banking firm. Mr. Yale is a former securities analyst, has served as a special investigative consultant to the Securities and Exchange Commission and other government entities and as an expert in many civil matters. Mr. Yale has arranged or participated in the arrangement of debt or equity financings of approximately $800 million and has written frequently for both business publications and professional journals. Mr. Yale is a CPA.
Thomas S. Cousins is a retired investment executive with a specialty in Public Finance and Fixed Income sales and trading. A native of Hinsdale, Illinois, Mr. Cousins began his career in Chicago with William Blair & Co. then relocated to Denver, Colorado in 1973 where he later became a General Partner with Boettcher & Co. He subsequently spent nine years with Piper Jaffray & Co. of Minneapolis as a Managing Director and Senior Vice President in the Fixed Income Department. Mr. Cousins has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Southern Illinois University.
Diane L. Cousins, is owner of Organize for Success, LLC. Upon graduating from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Finance, Mrs. Cousins began her career in Chicago with The Northern Trust Company then relocated to Denver, Colorado joining Trammell Crow Company as an Office Leasing Agent. Mrs. Cousins spent over three years as a Designer with California Closets Company prior to starting her own professional organizing business in 2007.
Rick Juday is currently a public finance consultant to government entities throughout the state of Florida. A native of Florida, Mr. Juday started his career on Wall Street with First Pennsylvania Bank in Fixed Income Institutional Sales. After relocating to Denver, Colorado where he became a partner at Boettcher and Company; he was summoned back to Wall Street by some key institutional accounts and was employed by DLJ/Credit Suisse as the Senior Vice President of Public Finance and Institutional Sales. He returned to his home state of Florida to lead the public finance team for what is now Wachovia Bank. Mr. Juday graduated with a B.S.B.A in Finance from the University of Florida.