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Philip Scarbro Director, Consumer Division
 
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    We believe it is essential to encourage environmentally benign and sustainable use of our planet's limited energy and water resources. Through the distribution of resource conserving products and the provision of objective, accurate information, we strive to assist people in their efforts to use energy and water efficiently.

     

       

    Philip Scarbro has worked for EFI since 1991, and in the energy efficiency field since 1986. Mr. Scarbro is responsible for the marketing, development and operations of all of EFI's consumer-oriented online initiatives, including 50 client-sponsored online stores. He was responsible for the establishment of EFI's Consumer Division in 2004, and under his management the Division is now is a significant contributor to EFI's overall revenue.

    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, and before that he worked in the office services department of United Way of Massachusetts Bay in Boston, 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). Mr. Scarbro currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of Amigos de las Americas of Greater Boston, for which he has held numerous positions on the Board of Directors since 1982 (including President, Treasurer, Training Director, and Fund Raising Director). He is also a past member of EFI's Board of Directors, on which EFI's management serve rotating terms.