Philip Scarbro

BACKGROUND: Philip Scarbro has worked for EFI since 1991, and within the energy efficiency field since 1986. Mr. Scarbro is responsible for the marketing, development, content, and operations of EFI's consumer-oriented online initiatives, having established EFI's Consumer Division in 2004. He is responsible for the content on EFI's corporate domain (efi.org), Facebook page, and Twitter account (twitter.com/efi_org), EFI's Consumer Division online newsletter, and facilitiated the development and management of EFI's first two online incentive processing programs for the ARRA-funded (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) appliance rebate programs for the states of New Mexico and Tennessee. Philip also oversees EFI's mission-related grants, working with the subcomittee of EFI's Board of Directors to review requests and recommend awards.

From 1986 through 1991 Mr. Scarbro was Project Director with People's Energy Resource Cooperative (PERC), managing low interest loan programs (Massachusetts' Home Energy Assistance Team program), administering utility-sponsored energy audit programs, and assisting PERC members in their efforts to reduce energy and water use. PERC was one of the founding member organizations of EFI. In 1991, shortly after PERC merged with Fair Share Development Corporation to become Community Energy Partnership (subsequently Conservation Services Group), Mr. Scarbro joined EFI's management.

Prior to PERC Philip was research assistant in Abt Associates' Survey Research Group (1983 to 1986), a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mr. Scarbro has a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts (1982), and a Masters degree in International Development and Social Change from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts (1996). He has been a member of Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) since 2010, and is a past member of EFI's Board of Directors.