Building the Future of HVAC

About Mike

Mike has more than 35 years of experience in the HVAC Industry. He has been involved in leading edge technology with the HVAC industry for decades, beginning with Variable Speed Drives being applied to Fans and Cooling Towers for energy savings and better building control. While at EMCOR, a service based company, he pioneered the use of the Turbocor Magnetic Bearing Compressors on existing Chillers and Built up systems. In his time at Multistack, a Chiller Manufacture, he was part of the team that developed the FlexSys Control System and Flooded Chillers where reliability and energy savings were a key concern. Mike’s focus at Bluon is to develop conversion protocols for the larger and more complex HVAC units, so our community of Bluon accredited contractors has everything they need to successfully bid jobs and convert systems to Bluon TdX 20 without any problems. Mike is passionate about maximizing a system’s energy efficiency and is always looking for new ways to increase efficiency within existing equipment.

About Thor

Thor manages our retrofit projects, as well as our Contractor-Supplier-Building Owner relationships. Thor began his HVAC career as a technician and small business owner. After a decade in the field, Thor moved to the office side of the HVAC industry doing procurement, managing national service accounts, and coordinating CapEx unit replacement projects. With nearly 15 years in HVAC doing both field work and back office management, along with Bachelor’s degrees in Information Technology and American History, Thor brings a well-rounded knowledge base and skill set to Bluon and our amazing HVAC community.

About Jed

Jed manages Bluon’s team of highly skilled technicians and is responsible for ensuring the utmost level of customer satisfaction for both Bluon’s contractor partners and end users. Jed has a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a background in manufacturing in a variety of industries that developed a thorough understanding of technical documentation and training, process improvement, and customer support. Jed is also a U.S. Army veteran with a unique skill set focused towards developing a team culture between Bluon and its contractor partners working together to provide the highest quality product and service to their customers.

About Nate

Nathan has been working in the HVAC industry for nearly 30 years, full time for the last 20 years. At age 12, he started working for his father’s company in Michigan on the weekends and in the summer. By the time he graduated high school, he was servicing and installing residential and light commercial HVAC systems, estimating jobs, scheduling work, and running commercial installation crews. He then moved to Florida where he supervised the installations of large commercial projects. Before joining Bluon, he spent 4 years as a Commissioning and Service Tech for OEMs specializing in energy efficient HVAC equipment.

About Dennis

Dennis has worked exclusively in the HVAC trade for 25 years. Dennis has literally seen it all, starting in residential, and then moving into factory service on large industrial, centrifugal, screw and reciprocating process chillers as well as refrigeration. He had his own successful contractor business for many years. Dennis has worked throughout the Southeast as well as the entire US. Being a gifted teacher, he truly enjoys helping others, working through difficult technical issues and finding resolutions. Dennis is married for 20 years with one son, and enjoys outdoors, gardening and most of all, spending time with family.

About Dave

David has been working in the HVAC field for the past 26 years as a service tech and has been licensed in NC for about 20 years as well as having his own business in the light commercial and residential field. David prides himself on his commitment to detail as well as helping others learn the many aspects of troubleshooting and problem solving. He also has various IT certifications and training which has come in handy with helping to develop the database and app that makes Bluon the best solution for technicians in the field. David has been married for 20 years and has 2 teenage children, 2 cats, and a crazy border collie that loves chasing frisbees. He is a homebody and loves spending time with his family.

About Bob

Bob’s career started in the US army as a 68 Foxtrot (aircraft electrician), which led him on a path of hands-on experience that cannot be taught in any classroom. Bob has 30 years of experience in HVAC (sales, service & install), electrical, and the mechanical trade, working in the residential, commercial, industrial, military, and telecommunications markets. Before joining Bluon, Bob spent the last 7 years managing critical infrastructure equipment for data centers.

About Tiffany

Tiffany is on Bluon's Core Sales team, developing partnerships and providing quality products and services to end users, contractors, and distributors. After graduating with a bachelors in HVAC Design Technology from Pennsylvania College of Technology, she has been helping customers solve HVAC issues in commercial and industrial buildings throughout the central Pennsylvania area. Her free time is spent travelling, playing with her two dogs, and racing her dune buggy with her family.

About Peter

As Chairman and CEO, Peter is responsible for the overall vision and business strategy of Bluon. Peter’s unique “bi-lingual” background, as a nuclear physicist who became one of the top commercial real estate deal architects in the country, gives him a truly unique perspective to fully understand both the technical and business sides of the company. He founded and spearheaded Savills Studley’s Corporate Services Group, a highly specialized team created to handle the most complex real estate transactions where they completed over $27 billion in transactions from 2000 - 2011. Subsequently, Peter co-founded Novus Via LP, a unique venture capital fund created to leverage empirically-based research focused on improving existing infrastructure with new innovative technological solutions. Bluon was Novus Via’s first investment in 2012. In 2016, Novus Via’s assets were re-structured into Bionatus, LLC as part of an asset sale transaction with Strathspey Crown Holdings, LLC. As part of the transaction, Peter became the managing member of Bionatus, LLC. Bionatus remains a capital and operating partner of Bluon. Peter took over as CEO of Bluon in July 2018 where he intends to stay to build the business over the coming years.

About Devin

Devin Whatley is a partner at the Ecosystem Integrity Fund, and leads deal structuring and negotiations, assists with the fund strategy, and is also responsible for much of the firm’s financial and operations-focused due diligence. Given his background, Devin is actively involved with the management and oversight of the Ecosystem Integrity Fund’s portfolio companies. He serves as a director on the boards of KeVita, Synova, OneEnergy Renewables, Complete Solar, and GLUKOS. He is or has been an observer on the boards of Zep Solar, Clean Fund, iVeridis, and SynchroNet.

Devin’s background is as a sustainability-focused entrepreneur, with significant experience in operations, sales, and finance. After a brief stint at his family’s award-winning mutual fund, where he worked with the investment team and institutional sales group, Devin became a partner at Aquillian Investments and subsequently at the Ecosystem Integrity Fund.

Devin is a CFA Charterholder and has an MBA from Wharton. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA’s Honors Division, where he was both an Alumni Scholar and Regents’ Scholar, earning a joint degree in Business and East Asian Studies.

About David

A career real estate professional, David has worked in the world of commercial leasing for over 30 years. David leads a team of professionals, whose sole business practice is focused on analyzing office buildings and data centers from the occupier’s / end-user’s perspective. As a result, David has developed deep connections in the commercial landlord and developer community. He has completed office leasing transactions with a multitude of landlords including; The Irvine Company, Lincoln Properties, Equity Office Properties, Douglas Emmett, LBA, Metropolitan Life, Brookfield Properties, Shorenstein, Griffin Capital among many others. In his extensive data center practice, David has negotiated with all the major wholesale providers including; Digital Realty Trust, Cyrus One, Dupont Fabros, Coresite, QTS and T5. David provides unparalleled access to the decision makers who control a majority of the commercial office and data center buildings in North America.

About Matt

Matt brings a unique background of business experience and technical expertise having worked in both commercial HVAC sales and application, and a role as a sustainability analyst for large corporate clients.

Matt’s background as a chemical engineer allows him to bridge the gap between the engineering world of innovation and the practical world of application to play an important role in corporate business development for Bluon.

About Sasha

Sasha Brown is a Principal at the Ecosystem Integrity Fund. Her responsibilities include investment due diligence, strategy development, process management, deal sourcing, and portfolio company support. She assists with system and sector analysis, firm operations, and financial structuring.

Prior to joining EIF, Sasha was a Principal at NewWorld Capital Group, where she co-led investments of more than $100M into growth-oriented companies in residential solar, diesel pollution reduction, and power electronics. In her role, she focused on origination, diligence, closing, portfolio management, board activities, and fundraising. Her deals included SolarEdge Technologies, which had a successful IPO in 2015, and Astrum Solar, which was sold to Direct Energy.

Drawing on her industry background, Sasha has developed specialized expertise with respect to residential solar, the built environment, HVAC, and environmental consulting and engineering. She also led the establishment of the firm’s institutional practices for growth investments and processes for continual improvement.

Sasha received a BS in Environmental Engineering from Yale University and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale, she Co-Chaired the university’s Private Equity Conference and completed a research thesis evaluating sustainability metric systems for the built environment.

About Brian

Brian is an accomplished leader in sales/IR with significant expertise in public and private markets institutional sales.

• Responsible for approximately 100 clients and over $4b in AUM from public fund and union clients
• Key relationships with leading consultants such as Cliffwater, NEPC, Meketa, Wilshire, Pathway, Callan, IPS, AndCo
• Successful track record marketing a wide range of products such as Private Equity, Private Credit, Infrastructure, Private Real Estate and public markets
• Harvard University graduate

About Leo

Mr. DiCaprio is a Bluon investor and board advisor.