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Steve Kropper, Founder

Steve is a serial entrepreneur focused on energy information services driven by large databases. He is a founding Fellow at the New England Clean Energy Fellowship Program. Steve started his career in the energy business, initially with Boston City Hospital and subsequently in his own commercial energy consultation business. He worked in the rapidly deregulating telecom market with Cable & Wireless, Martin-Marietta and later International Data Corporation as the telecom analyst. As the Internet evolved he saw promise in automating real estate information services and created the first of its kind and largest in the field Domania.com. Domania managed private label versions of its core service in partnerships with Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo, CitiBank, Chase and many other media and financial firms. The firm was sold to Lending Tree (now an IAC/Interactive property). After Domania, Steve served as Senior Vice President at Equinox Corporation where he led marketing for customer acquisition services and business process outsourcing (BPO) delivered from the firm’s 450 employee base in India (Equinox was later acquired by i-FLEX Solutions). He has provided corporate strategy and marketing consulting services to clients in both regulated and unregulated markets including energy, telecommunications, real estate information services, and banking customer acquisition. He has also provided advisory services to the venture capital community in the US Northeast.

Steve has a BA from Boston University and MBA from Cornell University. Elected Town Meeting member, Chairman of Lexington’s Municipal Energy Conservation Committee. Eagle Scout.

David Rosenbloom, PhD, Chairman & Co-Founder

David has a 40 year record of starting successful new ventures in both the private and public sectors. As Chief of Staff and key advisor to former Mayor of Boston, Kevin White, he has extensive experience working with community groups and local governing boards to resolve potentially controversial issues and move projects forward. He has been a founder, Chair, CEO and investor, in four successful private companies and created programs in the public/not for profit sector that generate more than $250 million a year in federal grants to states and communities. He is currently Professor of Public Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. David was Commissioner of Boston Health and Hospitals from 1975-1983 where he fostered development of an extensive network of neighborhood health centers and laid the groundwork for rebuilding the public hospital system and transitioning it to a non-governmental public purpose corporation. From 1984-1988, David was the Vice President, and then President of the Health Data Institute, a private company that pioneered the clinical analysis of medical claims data and developed managed-care tools and techniques used throughout the country today. Health Data Institute was successfully sold to Caremark, Inc. David was also the Founder of QuitNet.com, a Web based smoking cessation intervention, now used by over one million people. David served as Chairman for QuitNet from 2000 until it was acquired by Axiahealthcare.com in 2005. David grew up in Albany, New York. He has a PhD from MIT in Political Science. He is the author of numerous books and articles on political campaigns and finance, health care, and substance use problems.