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 and operations of EFI's consumer-oriented online initiatives, having established EFI's Consumer Division in 2004.

From 1986 through 1991 Mr. Scarbro was Project Director with People's Energy Resource Cooperative (PERC), managing low interest loan programs, administering utility-sponsored energy audit programs, and working with PERC members. 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 is also a past member of EFI's Board of Directors.

OUTSIDE OF WORK: For many years (1982-2010) Philip served on the Board of Directors of Amigos de las Americas of Greater Boston, for which he held numerous positions (including President, Treasurer, Training Director, and Fund Raising Director). He enjoys traveling, having visited Aruba, Canada, Ecuador, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, Tanzania, and Zanzibar. While in Tanzania (1991) he and 3 friends (plus a large contingent of porters) climbed Mount Kilamanjaro. In his free time he is restoring his 1924 bungalow-style house in Acton, Massachusetts.