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ChargEVC-NJ Officials

Doug O’Malley, President of ChargEVC-NJ

Doug O’Malley is the Director of Environment New Jersey. Mr. O’Malley has worked on key environmental issues for over 15 years in Trenton. His work has included campaigns to protect New Jersey’s waterways from fracking waste and clean-up of New Jersey’s air through speeding the transition to cleaner cars, building public support for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to combat global warming, and fast-tracking New Jersey’s clean energy economy through the expansion of solar, offshore wind, and energy efficiency. As a clean water advocate, Mr. O’Malley ran successful campaigns to protect the state’s largest reservoirs and rivers from development along their banks and directed citizen outreach offices. He also ran a staff of 20 to educate 60,000 Central Jersey citizens on their doorsteps on pressing environmental issues. He serves on the board of the Work Environment Council, Environment America, and Environmental Endowment of New Jersey and is a member of Jersey Renews, Better Choices Coalition, and the Anti-Poverty Network. He was recognized by EPA Region II with an Environmental Quality award in 2012. Mr. O’Malley graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a history degree.

Scott Fisher, Vice President of ChargEVC-NJ

As SVP of Sales and Business Development, Scott leads a team dedicated to nurturing long-lasting customer partnerships – part of an approach that simplifies and speeds customers’ journeys to electrification at scale, provides the flexibility that is essential in a still-evolving industry, eliminates capex, and minimizes risk. In the clean transport industry since 2014, Scott has helped build successful EV charging businesses at EVgo and Greenlots (now Shell Recharge Solutions). While at Greenlots, where he was one of the first 15 employees, Scott built the company’s business with utilities such as Duke, Exelon, HyrdoOne, and MidAmerica Energy. He then started Greenlots’ fleet and OEM group, which won significant business with customers such as Amazon, Penske, Volvo, and others. Scott’s previous work included 5 years at PSE&G and 10 years at NRG Energy. When he’s not at work helping realize a zero-emissions transportation future, Scott can be found cheering on his daughter’s softball team, watching basketball with his son, or teaching a graduate-level course on clean energy at Columbia’s Earth Institute, which he has done since 2011. Scott is a board member of ChargEVC and lives in West Windsor, NJ

James B. Appleton, Secretary of ChargEVC-NJ

Mr. Appleton is President of the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers (NJ CAR), which represents the state’s $33.4 billion-a-year retail auto and truck industry. NJ CAR’s over 510 members constitute over 97% of the franchised new car and truck retailers in New Jersey. Before joining NJ CAR in 1997, Mr. Appleton was a managing partner of Public Strategies/Impact, LLC, a government and public affairs consulting firm. Mr. Appleton previously served as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Operations for the Department of Environmental Protection and was also a member of the New Jersey Governor’s Washington, D.C., staff. A graduate of Rutgers University and Seton Hall Law School, Mr. Appleton served as Assistant City Attorney for the City of New Brunswick and, for several years, as a member of the New Brunswick School Board, the Planning Board, the Board of Adjustment, and the Environmental Commission.

Pamela Frank, CEO of ChargEVC-NJ

Pamela Frank has more than 20 years of experience in sustainability issues and the renewable energy industry. A common thread in her career has been her involvement in “starting up” disruptive movements and markets – from her creation of GreenFaith, an innovative not-for-profit that inspires, educates and mobilizes people of diverse religious background for environmental leadership, to being part of the Executive Team of Sun Farm Network, a solar development company that sold some of the country’s first power purchase agreements for solar in the early 2000s. At Gabel Associates, an energy consulting firm, where she spent 14 years, she supported the firm’s efforts related to the development of advanced technology, renewable energy, and energy efficiency projects. She also supported regulatory, policy, and analytical activities for these markets. Ms. Frank has served as a key stakeholder in the development of the solar energy market in New Jersey, which is considered one of the largest, most innovative markets in the nation. Since 2004, Ms. Frank has served on the state’s Renewable Energy Task Force, the policy body that has shaped solar development in the State. She worked closely with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, legislative leadership and the Governor’s Office for the successful passage of the Solar Advancement and Fair Competition Act of 2010, including building a diverse coalition of non-industry stakeholders to advance advocacy. Ms. Frank has been part of negotiating teams in several jurisdictions in the mid-Atlantic that have won significant improvements to interconnection protocols that favor the growth of distributed generation. One of Ms. Frank’s greatest strengths is her ability to bring together leaders from diverse sectors to advance issues related to sustainability. In forging strategic relationships, she has created not-for profit and private sector partnerships to promote new markets for environmental products, with sensitivity to the roles, responsibilities and goals unique to each partner. She currently serves as the Board President of Plug In America, a national not for profit with a mission to accelerate the transition to affordable and accessible plug in vehicles and charging through education, advocacy and research.

Gabel Associates provides Energy Consulting Services to ChargEVC

Gabel Associates (Gabel) is a trusted energy consulting firm that has been providing economic, analytical, policy, and regulatory support for over 30 years. The firm has been active in developing and analyzing sound policy initiatives and studies to support the sustainable growth of electrification. During its 10-year role supporting the management of ChargEVC, Gabel completed ground-breaking cost-benefit analysis for New Jersey, which modeled energy market and grid infrastructure impacts. This analysis informed ChargEVC-NJ’s original Roadmap which outlined market development strategies and high impact initiatives for EV market development. Gabel was also directly involved in New Jersey’s comprehensive EV law, which was signed into law by Governor Murphy on January 17, 2020 and is considered to be one of the most progressive EV laws in the nation. The firm works collaboratively with policy makers and has significant experience in advancing regulatory strategies that address the infrastructure, economic, and environmental issues related to EVs. Beyond New Jersey, Gabel supports policy development and related analysis at the national, regional, and state levels having testified extensively in various jurisdictions on ratemaking, policy, and renewable energy issues. For over three decades, the firm has been an important contributor to policy discussions and project development issues related to wholesale and retail energy markets, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and environmental issues. The firm currently provides consulting services to ChargEVC as projects arise.