Brendon Jacobs (Director of Community Projects) has spent the past 10 years working in the renewable energy space in Australia, before moving to the US. He has previously built and run direct sales divisions for LUMO Energy – helping grow the company to around 500,000 customers. He has also run Utilities Warehouse – a residential solar organization, growing it to around 30,000 customer installations in Australia. Further experience in energy efficiency saw him run the home audit and energy programs that combined energy efficient technologies with Australian Power and Gas – running an innovative program installing energy efficient products and services while switching customers to affordable energy providers.