About

Tom Bushy

Director

Tom was the founding principal of International Solar Solutions Inc., the company that developed the Solar Attic Fan. He graduated from the DeVry Institute of Technology in Toronto as an Electronics Engineering Technologist.

25 years of running his own security company took Tom into many hot attics. That experience inspired him to design and plan the manufacture of the Solar Powered Attic Fan.

Peter Love

Director

Peter is a career environmentalist with 25 years in the energy/electricity sector. Prior to founding Love Energy Consultants in 2009, Peter was Chief Conservation Officer for the Ontario Power Authority.

Peter spent ten years at Summerhill Group, with his last position being Chairman. During his tenure at Summerhill Peter served as the Executive Director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance. He has sat on the boards of several businesses and non-profit organizations and holds an MBA from the University of Toronto.

In 2007 Peter was given the prestigious Sustainable Buildings Canada – Lifetime Achievement Award.

Frank Klees

Director and Chair, Government Relations

Frank’s career spans 25 years in financial services, contract negotiation, real estate development and the energy sector. His private sector experience was followed by 19 years as a Member of the Ontario Legislature where he served in senior leadership roles including Minister of Transportation, Minister of Tourism and on the Management Board of Cabinet.

He also served on a number of Parliamentary Committees, including Justice and Public Accounts and was Vice Chair of the Select Committee on the Proposed Transaction of the TMX Group and the London Stock Exchange Group.

As President of Klees & Associates, he provides advisory and government relations services to public and private corporations.

Rob Savard

Director

Rob is a director of four private renewable energy companies. In 1998, prior to focusing on renewable energy and sustainable development Rob helped develop North American free markets for the procurement, transmission and sale of natural gas.

Rob has 30+ years of experience in corporate start ups, energy consulting, government and regulatory affairs, supply chain management, transmission logistics & tariffs, land management, natural gas marketing, wind and solar power development and other sources of recyclable clean energy. Rob continues to lend his experience to several renewable energy Boards both public and private dedicated to creating the clean energy economy.

Since 2004, Rob has secured private equity financing for wind, solar and run-of-river power projects. Located in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, they are currently producing more than 500 megawatts of clean renewable power or are under late stage construction.

Rita Middleton

Director and Chair, Finance Subcommittee

Rita, a CPA/Chartered Accountant by profession, has over twenty five years’ strategic and operational senior management experience, including operational start-up, dynamic operating segment growth, industry regulatory and public company compliance, business restructuring, process and systems re-engineering; and corporate capital structure initiatives.

She is co-founder of First Carbon Credits Corporation and is qualified as a CSA Certified Greenhouse Gas Inventory Quantifier. Previously, Rita held the position of Senior Vice President, Finance & Information Technology Services with Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.

Rita is very actively involved, at Executive levels of various Boards and with charitable organizations, including The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC); The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS), and the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA).

Peter Budd

Director and Executive Chair

Peter is a co-founder of International Solar Solutions and largely responsible for building the current great team of partners, staff and stakeholders to launch the company’s products.

He has a B.A. (Honours) from University of Toronto and Bachelor of Laws from University of Windsor. He has been a Member of the Ontario Electricity Market Design Committee and is a former Director of the Ontario Natural Gas Association (ONGA).

Peter was inaugural Chair of the Ontario Energy Association (OEA) in 2002. In addition to his role at iSolar, Peter continues to apply his 20+ years of experience as a regulatory expert to providing highly specialized advice and counsel to energy project developers, government agencies, and industrial/commercial clients.

John Lambert

Vice President Business Development

John has had national sales & marketing leadership roles in the energy industry with a focus on strategic accounts since 1989. He has focused on comprehensive, enterprise energy solutions for commercial, industrial and institutional clients throughout North America.
John works with organizations that strive to achieve best-in-class operating costs and environmental sustainability through the development and execution of corporate-wide energy management solutions. He cut his teeth in the early days of natural gas deregulation with ECNG Inc. In 1996 he was a co-founder of one of Canada’s preeminent consulting companies, Energy Advantage Inc. Since then he filled several roles at Direct Energy (Business) including heading up both the Canadian National & Strategic Accounts sales team and later, Direct Energy’s Demand Response group. John is a member of the Independent Electric System Operator of Ontario’s (IESO) Demand Response Working Group (DRWG and the Ontario Energy Association (“OEA”) Smart Grid Forum – Corporate Partner’s Committee.

Sebastian Budd

Corporate Secretary

Sébastien is iSolar’s Corporate Secretary. He holds a B.A. (Honours) in political science from Carleton University and a joint J.D./LL.L. in common and civil law from the University of Ottawa. Over the past 14 years, his experience has included legal and political roles with the Government of Canada, political and communications roles with the City of Ottawa, the Parliament of Canada, and the UK Parliament, and technical, training, and sales roles with Apple Inc.

Greg Middleton

Chief Information Officer

Greg Middleton, PMP, is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). As co-founder of Proven Private Networks, a technical and management consulting company, he has provided management level technical consulting services to a wide array of organizations over the last two decades, including: Oshawa Food Group, National Grocers, Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., CanWest Global, Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment and Innovax Concepts. His management background includes the full lifecycle deployment of many software and hardware technologies in a variety of industries in addition to providing Senior IT Management consulting services.