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.

Spring Hollis is the CEO and founder of Star Strong Capital, an investment firm that provides flexible capital solutions to lower middle market businesses. Before founding Star Strong Capital, Spring was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank focused on principal investments in structured credit and esoteric assets. Prior experience also includes Park Cities Asset Management as a specialty finance Portfolio Manager and Briargate Capital as a Founding Partner focused on distressed issuers of privately held debt.

Spring serves on the Board of Directors for the BOMA Project, an international non-profit focused on the economic empowerment of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Hollis has a J.D. from New York University and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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 Humane 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.