Board of Directors

Roger H.D. Lacey served as CSI’s chief executive officer from February 2015 until November 30, 2020 and has served as the executive chairman of CSI board of directors since December 2018. He also assumed the additional role of interim chief executive officer on August 2, 2021 when Ms. Kumar’s employment was terminated in connection with the closing of the E&S Sale Transaction. Mr. Lacey has been a CSI director since 2008, served as board vice chair from September 2013 until December 2018 and interim chief executive officer from June 2014 until February 2015. Mr. Lacey was senior vice president of strategy and corporate development at the 3M Company from 2009 to his retirement in 2013. He was the 3M Company’s chief strategy officer and head of global mergers and acquisitions from 2000 to 2013. Mr. Lacey’s career with 3M began in 1975; from 1989 to 2000 he held various senior positions including serving as division vice president of 3M Telecom Division. In addition, Mr. Lacey served as a member of the corporate venture capital board for internal and external new venture investments from 2009 to 2013. In addition, he is a board member of Johnsonville Sausage Corporation, a leading US food company, and also a Senior Partner in CGMR Capital, a private equity firm, where he is a Board member of WTB , a private Utilities services company, and Cambek, a leading manufacturer of specialty wood construction products. He was formerly a member of the board of governors for Opus Business School, University of St. Thomas; a visiting professor of strategy and corporate development, Huddersfield University; a founding member of the Innovation Lab at MIT; and is a former vice chair of Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation.

Scott Maskin co-founded SUNation Solar Systems in 2003. As the company operations leader, his hands-on approach has driven SUNation’s growth and branding. Scott has a PhD from the School of Hard knocks. From 1980-1987 Scott traveled as an electrician and pyrotechnician for large touring musical, theatrical and industrial tours. Post 1987, Scott worked as a traditional electrician and obtained his Master Electrician’s license in 1994 and went out on his own. The next 18 years were filled with countless electrical and general contracting projects including hotels, large retail box stores, restaurants and thousands of residential installations.

Thomas J. Holland is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Homebound Inc., a California-based housing company, and has been in such role since November 2021. He was previously a partner at Bain & Company, Inc., a management consulting firm, (“Bain & Company”) from September 2018 to November 2021. From December 2016 to December 2017, Mr. Holland was the CEO of Century Snacks, LLC, a California-based food manufacturing company. From March 2014 to December 2015, Mr. Holland served as the President of SunRun Inc., a provider of residential solar panels and home batteries (“SunRun”), and he was the Chief Operating Officer of SunRun from August 2013 to March 2014. Prior to that, he was a partner at Bain & Company from December 1989 to July 2013. Mr. Holland holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Scott M. Honour has served as a director of EVO Transportation & Energy Services, Inc. since November 2016 and has served as a member of its audit committee since February 2019. Mr. Honour also serves as Managing Partner of Northern Pacific Group, a Wayzata, Minnesota based private equity firm, where he has served since 2012. Previously, from 2002 to 2012, he was Senior Managing Director of The Gores Group, a Los Angeles based private equity firm with $4 billion of capital under management. Prior to that, Mr. Honour was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank from 2000 to 2002 and an investment banker at DLJ from 1991 to 2000. He began his career at Trammell Crow Company in 1988. Mr. Honour also co-founded YapStone, Inc. in 1999. Mr. Honour holds a BS in business administration and a BA in economics from Pepperdine University and an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Henry B. Howard, with ten years of domestic and international solar energy industry experience, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Renewable Energy LLC, U.S. Renewable Energy II LLC, and U.S. Renewable Energy III LLC; owners of two New York community solar energy generation facilities and one foreign commercial solar energy generation facility. Mr. Howard is also the founder and sole owner of U.S. Education Loan Trusts I, II, III, and IV LLC’s; Federal Family Education Loan Program securitizations collectively amounting to $3.5 Billion in original outstandings. The President appointed him to represent the United States in Nicaragua in 1997 and to the board of the National Security Education Program at the U.S. Department of Defense in 2020. Mr. Howard is an Advisory Board Member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. 

Mr. Howard is a 1979 honors graduate from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science (Cum Laude) and is a Doctor of Human Letters (h.c.) from the University of Mobile.

Kevin O’Connor, is the Principal at KMO Strategy. Kevin O’Connor is currently involved in strategic consulting, He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Dime Community Bank the successor organization to BNB Bank after the merger between these two organizations in 2021. Dime Bank is one of the region's largest community banks with over 50 branches, 800 employees and $12 billion in assets. Mr. O’Connor served as the Chief Executive Officer of the bank for 16 years, where he led the Long Island community institution through a period of dramatic growth and financial stability. Other roles in financial services included senior positions at North Fork Bank and KPMG. Mr. O’Connor has degrees in Accounting from Adelphi University in 1984 and Suffolk Community College.