Prior to his current position, Scudder Parker was as the policy coordinator for Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. He also worked at the Vermont Department of Public Service as director of the Energy Efficiency Division (1990-2003). There Parker helped create Efficiency Vermont, Vermont's innovative and nationally recognized Energy Efficiency Utility. He has worked consistently to support renewable energy. Parker served as a Vermont state senator from Caledonia County from 1981 to 1988.

Erich Golschneider, Treasurer

Financial Analyst
Dartmouth Printing Company
Hanover, New Hampshire

Erich Golschneider was born and raised in Connecticut, and graduated from Bryant College in Smithfield, Rhode Island. After eight years as a CPA, he moved into financial management at home health care agencies in Connecticut and Vermont, and is now financial analyst for Dartmouth Printing Company, a publications services company in Waterbury, Vermont. He brings a high level of nonprofit financial management experience to his role as treasurer of BERC.

Eric Kingsley, Secretary

Vice President of Research and Government Affairs
Innovative Natural Resource Solutions
Portland, Maine

Eric Kingsley serves a vice president of Innovative Natural Resource Solutions, L.L.C., a consulting firm with expertise in forest-based economic development, land conservation, and biomass energy. Kingsley has played key roles in the development, acquisition, and financing of several large-scale biomass projects. Based in Portland, Maine, Kingsley brings more than a decade of hand-on experience with biomass projects to his role at BERC.

Lynn Benander

President and CEO
Coop Power
Greenfield, Massachusetts

Lynn Benander is the manager of Co-op Power, a consumer-owned cooperative dedicated to building community-owned clean energy resources in the northeastern United States. Prior to joining Co-op Power, she directed the Cooperative Development Institute, an economic development nonprofit supporting the development of energy, agriculture, food, and housing-related group-based businesses in the Northeast. She brings experience in the community-scale energy industry, fundraising, and nonprofit management to the BERC board.

Michelle Manion

Climate and Energy Program Manager
Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
Boston, Massachusetts

Michelle Manion is the program manager of the Climate and Energy team at NESCAUM/NESCCAF. She specializes in economic analysis of environmental and natural resource policy, with a focus on energy and climate change policy. In particular, she has extensive experience in economic modeling, including the use of regional models to estimate the economic impacts of environmental policies and initiatives at the regional level. She has also managed projects for a variety of governmental and nonprofit clients including the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of the Interior, the World Bank, the World Commission on Dams, and Conservation International.

Rick Tillotson

Vice President and Director
Tillotson Corporation
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire

Rick Tillotson is the vice president and director of Tillotson Corporation, which is the owner of Tillotson Farms & Forests in Hereford, Quebec and Cannan, Vermont, and of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, Dixville Telephone, Tillotson Rubber (and its biomass energy facility and rubber factory), and the forest lands of the certified Balsams Tree Farm, in Dixville, Colebrook, Columbia, and Stewartstown, New Hampshire. Tillotson engages himself in many nonprofit and community organizations in northern New Hampshire's Coos County as well as a number of charitable foundations. He is also active in the Tillotson North Country Foundation, Inc. and The Poore Family Foundation for North Country Conservancy.