Staff & Board

D. DICKINSON HENRY, JR. , Executive Director
dhenry@jordaninstitute.org,  Phone: 603-226-1009 x202
Dick Henry has been with the Jordan Institute since January of 2007. He brings a broad background in energy and environmental work to Jordan. Dick served for nine years as President of the Audubon Society of New Hampshire, from 1987 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he set up and ran the New Hampshire Electric Utility Restructuring Collaborative, a consortium of low-income, small business and environmental interests that developed the groundwork for a systems benefit charge. That charge now produces $20 million per year for electric energy efficiency implementation and another $12 million for low-income fuel assistance. As a consultant Dick worked with Public Service of New Hampshire and developed the original idea to convert one 50 Mega Watt coal-fired power plant to wood using fluidized bed combustion. While at Audubon he was a key participant in the implementation of a Selective Catalytic Reduction system to the Bow Power Plant, the first of its kind in the western hemisphere and now a standard for reducing NOx emissions throughout the country.

Dick graduated from Harvard College in 1970 to co-found and become president of the Habitat Institute of the Environment until 1975. He then joined the technical staff at the Massachusetts Audubon Society from 1976-1979 and was a member of the New England Energy Congress. From 1979 to 1984, Dick directed the Lake Waramaug Task Force that installed the first hypolimnetic withdrawal system in North America to restore that highly eutrophic lake. After his tenure at Audubon and PSNH in the late 1980s and 1990s, Dick began a commercial enterprise to implement sheep contract grazing to manage invasive and exotic vegetation.

Dick has a thorough knowledge of environmental and energy issues and how they intertwine. He has a strong background working with utilities, regulators, government agencies, business interests, the environmental community, foundations, and private individuals. An innovative and original thinker, Dick believes that climate change is the greatest challenge we face and that significant improvement in the built environment plays a key role in meeting the climate change challenge.

ALISON KEAY, Project Coordinator
akeay@jordaninstitute.org, Phone: 603-226-1009 x206
Alison Keay joined the staff in July 2010. She is a graduate of Keene State College with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. Her focus in the architecture program was sustainable architecture and building science. She is a BPI certified building analyst with experience in blower door testing of residential, multifamily and commercial buildings, as well as infrared imaging for building diagnostics. She has worked on Level I and Level II energy audits for retail spaces, restaurants, warehouses, municipal buildings, multifamily housing, child care facilities, and single-family residential buildings. She has experience with launching and reading data-logging equipment and other forms of building monitoring and verification, as well as mechanical systems and renewable-energy systems such as solar thermal, PV and wind. Alison works on commercial and residential LEED projects, as well as Deep Energy Retrofits. She is in the process of becoming a LEED for Homes Accredited Professional and a Green Rater.

PAUL LEVEILLE, Assoc. AIA, CBCP, LEED AP, High Performance Building Specialist
pleveille@jordaninstitute.org,   Phone: 603-226-1009 x205
Paul works with interested parties throughout building design, construction, and operation to optimize environmental performance in all areas, including energy efficiency, pollution prevention, indoor environmental quality, and site protection. 

Paul is the past Director of Facilities for the Society for the Protection of NH Forests, NH's oldest and largest conservation organization. Among those facilities he oversaw was the award-winning Conservation Center, a showcase for passive solar design. Paul oversaw lighting upgrades, installation of the then largest utility inter-tie solar electric system in NH, and a central woodchip-fired heating system. He also guided the addition of a state-of-the-art addition that features a super-insulated and air-tight envelope, daylighting, local materials, composting toilets, a full greywater recycling system, non-toxic materials and more. The project was New England’s first LEED certified building and earned a Gold rating.

Paul has chaired the Environmental Committee of the NH Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the NH Sustainable Energy Association www.nhsea.org. He has two degrees in engineering and previously worked in the architecture field. Paul and his family live in Grafton, NH in a passive solar home built almost entirely from lumber he milled from on-site trees or urban salvage logs. 

DANA NUTE, Director of Project Implementation
dnute@jordaninstitute.org,  Phone: 603-226-1009 x212
Dana Nute is Director of Project Implementation, coordinating technical and construction measures for deep-energy retrofit and high-performance buildings.

He comes to Jordan after twelve years as the Director of Housing Rehabilitation and Energy Conservation for the Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc.  Prior to his work with the CAPs, he managed and developed large commercial construction projects throughout the Northeast and overseas.

He is a State-certified energy auditor with the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning, on the Board of Directors of the Residential Energy Performance Association, on the Advisory Board for the State of New Hampshire Weatherization Assistance Program , a member of the Statewide Steering Committee for Healthy Homes, and a member of the National Weatherization Plus 2015 Committee in Washington, DC.

He is also involved in New Hampshire’s energy efficiency policy as an intervenor with the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission on Energy Efficiency Programs, a member of the New Hampshire Climate Collaborative, and a voting member of the Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Board.

Dana is a graduate of Northeastern University with a civil engineering degree working in construction management and development. He received the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Management and Administration Award.

LAURA RICHARDSON, Director of Operations
lrichardson@jordaninstitute.org,  Phone: 603-226-1009 x204
Laura Richardson serves as Director of Operations for The Jordan Institute, coordinating staff, projects, and messaging. She brings to this position a lifetime of customer support, advocacy, and good humor and has been a long-time renewable-energy and energyefficiency advocate.

For three years Laura managed stimulus-funded energy programs for the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning, including the Green Launching Pad, the Enterprise Energy Fund, the Building-Energy Code Compliance program; the Wood-Pellet System Rebate Program, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects at seven Community Colleges, lighting projects at UNH, Keene State College, and Plymouth State College, energy audits for municipalities and businesses, and a feasibility study on the Coos Loop transmission line.

Laura was Project Director for StayWarmNH, a public-private effort initiated by Governor John Lynch to address skyrocketing energy costs in 2008 and the concerns for New Hampshire’s most vulnerable residents. As co-owner of Empowered Homes, she retrofitted a 108-year-old home in Woodsville, New Hampshire with a special focus on energy reductions. The home achieved a 54 HERS rating and was featured in HomePower magazine. She co-founded the New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association in 2003, a statewide non-profit organization focusing on renewable energy and energy efficiency and led that group in various roles through 2009. For 8 ½ years, she was the health-care advocate for her schizophrenic brother in law, navigating the mental-health and medical world on his behalf. For the nine years prior to that, she worked as a customer service liaison and cost estimator in the printing industry.

She is Chair of the Trustees of the Trust Funds for her town, a Master Gardener with home-grown produce on the table throughout the year, and since 2001, has lived off-grid in a super-insulated, solar-powered, cordwood/TARM-heated home in the White Mountains. She is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

THERESA SPEAR,  Project Coordinator
tspear@jordaninstitute.org,  Phone: 603-226-1009 x213
Theresa joined the staff at Jordan Institute in 2010 as part of the High Performance Buildings Group.  Theresa has been involved with sustainable building practices, energy efficiency and recycling in varied capacities - from working on one of the first multi-family Energy Star rehabs in NH to implementing green practices at a country inn.  She worked with a local builder to qualify homes for the NAHB Green Building certification. Theresa is a BPI certified Building Analyst and Envelope Professional.

PRUDY VEYSEY, Executive Assistant
pveysey@jordaninstitute.org, Phone: 603-226-1009 x210
Prudy is a graduate from the University of New Hampshire at Plymouth with her BS degree in Business Administration. She worked for many years at Proctor Academy, an environmentally responsible private high school, where every day is Earth Day. While there,  she assisted with upgrades to existing buildings and new construction that incorporated  high standards of sustainability including energy efficiency, recycled materials, and renewable energy. Recently Prudy was employed as office manager and as  executive/personal assistant to the CEO of Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Napo is a privately held pharmaceutical company based in San Francisco, California. Napo's lead drug candidate, crofelemer, is under development for gastrointestinal illnesses.

Outside of work she can be found upgrading the efficiency and comfort of  her 1825 home in Gilmanton Corners with her family or cruising in her 66 Volkswagen convertible.


BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Jordan Institute Board members represent the academic, government, and private sectors:

KENNETH A. COLBURN: President - Kenneth A. Colburn is a Senior Associate at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), a non-profit group of veteran utility and environmental regulators providing technical and policy assistance on economic efficiency and environmental sustainability to public service commissions and regulatory agencies throughout the U.S., China, the EU, and India.  He came to RAP from Symbiotic Strategies, an independent consultancy he founded to pursue climate change, energy, water, and public policy issues at the intersection of environmental and economic opportunity. He has led several state climate action planning processes and provided strategic assistance to foundations, progressive companies like Stonyfield Farm, and non-governmental organizations in their efforts to address climate and energy issues.

Previously Colburn was Executive Director of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) and led the Air Resources Division of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES), helping to make that state a leader in reducing air pollution with the nation’s first “4-pollutant” legislation for power plants and the first greenhouse gas emissions reduction registry law.  Before joining NHDES in 1995, Colburn was Vice President of Energy and Environmental Policy at the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire (BIA), representing the state’s business community on environmental, energy, and telecommunications matters in legislative and regulatory forums.  He holds a B.S. in mathematics from M.I.T. and M.B.A. and M.Ed. Degrees from the University of New Hampshire. Colburn and his family reside in Meredith, New Hampshire, USA.

BRIAN MOROZE, LL.B: Secretary - Mr. Moroze is retired.  He was formerly the Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Law for Tyco International. He is based in Portsmouth, NH.

MIKE MOOIMAN: Treasurer - Mike Mooiman, MBA, PhD,  is a full time assistant professor in the MBA program at Franklin Pierce University, NH. He is also the academic coordinator for the Energy and Sustainability MBA program. Dr. Mooiman has worked in the chemical process and precious metals industries for many years and has a track record of successful projects, patents and business turnarounds. He consults for industry and government organizations on projects related to process design, operational improvements and energy efficiency.

RICHARD DONNELLY - Mr. Donnelly is the former Senior Vice President at Sovereign Bank. He is based in Manchester, NH.

ROBERT MCLELLAN, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FAAFP - Dr. McLellan is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH. He is Chief, Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

TERRY VITAL - Executive Vice President, Founder Eisenberg, Vital & Ryze Advertising. Terry is the chief marketing communications strategist, responsible for managing the market research and development of strategic marketing communications and branding solutions. She works from her studios in Manchester, NH and resides in Waterville Valley, NH.