Momentum (buildmomentum.io) Company Culture

Shawn Garvey is a serial entrepreneur and environmental activist. Garvey is the founder and Chief Executive Officer, here at Momentum, a family of companies working to design, develop and deploy transformational clean energy technologies. He is a co-founder and managing director of E-Mission Control, which designs and manages electricity consumption data products for forward-thinking on- and off-road vehicle fleet operators, and also co-founder and director of MXV Ventures, a company that designs clean-tech incubation and accelerator programs and invests in early-stage clean energy innovations and start-ups. He founded The Sierra Fund, a foundation for the environment committed to the land and people of California’s Sierra Nevada headwaters which sponsored successful legislation creating Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Garvey co-founded several non-profit organizations, including The Sierra Fund, Velocity7, Green Research and Green Mountain Film Festival. He served as a Special Projects Representative for the US Department of Agriculture Rural Development in the Clinton Administration. Garvey founded Smart Campaigns, a political communications firm that has helped to elect hundreds of Democratic and progressive candidates for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, throughout the United States and abroad.

Trained in civil engineering and economics, Mr. Hart has worked with clean technology and sustainable environmental practices throughout the United States, South America, Asia, and Africa. Mr. Hart’s expertise focuses on zero- and near-zero-emission, on- and off-road equipment demonstration and community-scale renewable energy generation, including micro-grids, solar, wind, hydropower, and organics waste management. In his work, he focuses on a complete life-cycle approach to clean technology solutions that results in sound economic, environmental, and equitable projects that shift energy production and utilization toward a sustainable future. Mr. Hart brings a comprehensive and analytical engineering and financial approach to his work with Momentum that includes: technology evaluations, greenhouse gas life cycle modeling, carbon pathway modeling, environmental review, air permitting, financial and economic feasibility studies, sensitivity modeling and analysis, resource assessments, a

Mr. Hanohano has more than 10 years of experience in sales, content development, and client and project management for advanced energy, water, transportation, and manufacturing projects. His excellent written and verbal communication skills complement his flair for organization, making him an effective client manager for some of Momentum’s most prominent clients. Mr. Hanohano also has extensive experience working with a wide variety of public agencies, including the California Energy Commission, CalRecycle, and the California Air Resources Board.

Daele is a strong problem solver and an effective verbal and written communicator, with more than seven years of experience in finance and budgeting and a keen analytical mind. At Momentum, she manages business operations. In this role, Daele helps clients develop project budgets for grant proposals, oversees project invoicing, supports Project Managers in client communications and directions, and co-develops and helps clients implement audit defense best practices. She has also been instrumental in the development of processes and procedures to standardize grant invoicing and budget protocols.