GEOTHERMAL /GEO COMMUNITIES WEBINAR Presenters:

Amy Jacobs, ENWAVE ENERGY, SVP, Commercial Operations

Amy Jacobs is the Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations and is responsible for the commercial execution of complex large-scale projects with several stakeholders including utilities, municipalities, and provinces across Canada. She currently drives Enwave’s stakeholder engagement and leads the development and execution of new business lines.  She also oversees negotiations for all new and existing project agreements across all business lines with some of the country's largest developers, property managers, and real estate investors.  Since joining in 2014, she has progressed through several increasingly senior cross-functional positions within the company.  She has led a number of cross-functional process implementations that drove value and efficiencies for the company and has been a key team member on multiple financings and acquisitions.   Most recently, Amy led the commercial workstreams on some of Enwave’s largest development projects, including the 4th Intake DLWC project, the Berczy Glen Geo-exchange community, and the Western Expansion Project. Amy is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in Accounting from the University of Windsor.

ROBERT MANCINI, B.A.Sc., P.Eng. (Mech.)

Robert Mancini ‘s field of practice has been in the design of building energy systems (HVAC & Electrical). In the early 1980’s he turned his attention to the design of geothermal heat pump systems (GHPs).   He began developing and designing commercial/institutional GHPs in the early 1980s. There were no design guides, Mr. Mancini had to develop the application. He has designed hundreds of highly efficient geo systems, in fact three decades later these Geo buildings would meet current criteria for high efficiency buildings. His geo projects are practically all-over North America as well as one in China. This his 30^th year on the ANSI/CSA/IGSHPA C448 Geo task force that developed the only geothermal standard in existence. Now a bi-national GHP standard.  In 2012 Robert refocused his firm towards the engineering of Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Carbon buildings. Three NZE/NZC buildings have been designed to date.

Gino Di Reeze P. Eng., CEO, Groundheat

Alma Maters of Ryerson University, U of Akron, U of Toronto.

Worked for GE for 6 years before starting an HVAC contracting company which included geothermal in 1979. Focused exclusively on geothermal in 1985 by starting Groundheat in Ontario. Designed and installed systems Across Canada, Northern US, South-East Asia, Eastern Europe, and with Europe’s largest district Geothermal in Rome Italy. Co-purchased a 400KW On-site United Technologies gas fuel Cell in 2000 from Ontario Hydro, ONSI 25A. Encouraged for the ongoing quality of the Geothermal industry and joined as a founding member of the 1992 CSA Geothermal Committee and continued with revisions even 30 years later.

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