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Energy Luncheon Panelist
Panel Moderator: Amy Bunton, SVP Pathway Lending
Sherry Stewart Deutschmann, LetterLogic
Founder and CEO of LetterLogic, Inc. a fast-growing manufacturing / business services provider that prints and mails statements, letters, and invoices for other business, primarily in the healthcare sector. Speaker for national women’s organizations publicizing benefits of employee-centric cultures. LetterLogic receives national press and recognition for its unique culture in which the employees interests come before the clients’ interests. This culture is integral to the company’s success, now on track to be at $100 M in annual revenue by 2018. Received the 2013 Mayor’s Green Workplace Challenge Award for Innovation. Will speak to ways her company has integrated best practices in Sustainability and Energy management. The long and short term benefits of these initiatives and how other women owned businesses can also implement similar practices.
Patty West, Tennessee Valley Authority
Renewable Energy Program Director. Oversees Renewable Energy Programs throughout TVA’s seven state region. Will speak to her experience in renewable project implementation and how solar installation projects are being used and embraced to grow Tennessee’s economy.
Mary Shaffer Gill, ARiES Energy
Vice President at ARiES Energy (Alternative Renewable Innovative Economic Solutions for Energy. Will speak to experiences as a principal in growing an Energy related business – the challenges, opportunities and outlook.
Special thanks to Pathway Lending, our panel moderator Amy Bunton, as well as Tennessee Energy Education Initiative Representative, Molly Cripps – Director Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Office of Energy Programs.
July 25, 2013
11am – 1pm
@ Maggiano’s Nashville
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Learn more about our panelists…
Sherry Stewart Deutschmann, Founder & Chief Executive Officer – LetterLogic
Raised in the mountains of North Carolina, Sherry, like many Music City transplants, came to Nashville to make her mark in the music industry. After seven years of working for someone else’s lettershop company, Sherry realized she could do it better and founded LetterLogic. She has since led the company to tremendous success. Through her leadership, LetterLogic has continually been recognized as one of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in middle Tennessee by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, and it was also named one of the 50 Fastest Privately-Owned Women-Led Companies in North America by Entrepreneur Magazine. In 2009, Ernst & Young recognized LetterLogic as a winning woman-owned company and we were previously named as one of Inc. Magazine’s top 5,000 companies. Sherry balances the demands of leading LetterLogic to continued growth and success, attending public speaking events, touring the globe as a seasoned road-warrior, and spending time with her beloved family.
Patty West, Tennessee Valley Authority
Patty West is Director of Renewable Energy Programs at the Tennessee Valley Authority. She is responsible for TVA’s renewable energy efforts including end-use products, supply-side products, renewable energy policy, and compliance functions.
Patty has more than 35 years of experience at TVA with a particular focus on renewable energy programs, policies, and research and development, as well as environmental planning and policy. Patty participated in the initial development of TVA’s green power programs and the early deployment of small-scale renewable energy technology projects across the TVA system. She was also responsible for TVA’s commodity price forecasting and its integration into the power resources operation planning.
Patty received her M.S in Civil Engineering and B.S. in Chemistry from Tennessee Technological University. She currently serves on the Electric Power Research Institute Renewable Energy Advisory Council
Mary Shaffer Gill, ARiES Energy
Mary Shaffer Gill serves as Vice President of ARiES Energy, LLC, an energy contracting firm based in Lenoir City. ARiES Energy is focused on turn-key renewable energy systems that help customers avoid rising energy costs and provide the quickest return on their investment. Since 2008, Mary Shaffer has played a key role in the development and success of a number of solar technology contractors in east Tennessee. She is responsible for over $7million in clean energy grant funding for our state, including $1.5million for AGC Flat Glass North America and $250,000 for Wampler’s Farm Sausage Company, the largest USDA Rural Development energy grant in Tennessee. Her grant writing recently resulted in 3 of the 17 Clean TN Energy Grant awards administered by the TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation. In 2010, Mary Shaffer was voted to serve on the inaugural board for Tennessee’s chapter of the Solar Energy Industries Association, TenneSEIA (ten-uh-see-uh), where she represents the Tennessee solar industry and helps develop sustainable solar policies at the state level. At ARiES, Mary Shaffer continues to provide a variety of energy solutions for her customers and is thrilled to focus efforts on a new, innovative waste-to-energy technology manufactured in Tennessee.
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The Tennessee Energy Education Initiative is brought to you by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Office of Energy Programs, Pathway Lending, and other statewide energy resource provider. Funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. www.TnEnergy.org.