Utility Service Partners

Phil honed his managerial and entrepreneurial skills during a successful career with Consolidated Natural Gas, where he quickly progressed through the corporate structure. Over a 25-year span, he earned a reputation of friendly professionalism built on integrity and expertise. Early in his CNG tenure, Phil created strategies for the company's interstate pipeline and tactical plans for unbundling merchant and storage services.

In 1993, he helped guide the successful startup of CNG Energy Services, producing a first-year profit. As Vice President of Integrated Energy Management at CNG Energy Services, he developed a profitable portfolio of multi-year wholesale gas and electric commodity products. After a promotion to Senior Vice President and General Manager at CNG Retail, he directed a marketing team that promoted unregulated energy commodities and the initial utility service line warranty. Following CNG's merger with Dominion in 2000, he assumed the title of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dominion Retail. As CEO of Utility Service Partners, Phil directs the company's ongoing growth and partnership building programs with cities and utility companies throughout the United States.

Brad is responsible for identifying new prospects among major electric and gas utility groups and municipalities, developing customer relationships for private label partnerships as well as for developing strategic marketing plans and implementation strategies. Brad has been an integral part of negotiating contracts with major cities across the country, such as Atlanta, Milwaukee, Phoenix, and Kansas City as well as developing and maintaining the organization's strong relationship with the National League of Cities.

Throughout Brad's career, collaboration and networking have been a constant theme as he focuses on bringing people and ideas together to create value for the organization. As a leader, Brad is skilled at seeing the value in people he meets every day and cultivating relationships to help the organization grow.

With his employees, Brad focuses on communication and teamwork to ensure every employee understands the tasks at hand before they begin. He works hard to help everyone understand the reason, rationale and benefit behind the ideas so the end product will reach maximum potential. This focus is an opportunity to teach, with all levels of staff, to see how the team works together to grow the business and how their role is important to the overall success.

Away from work, Brad enjoys playing golf and being outdoors. He and his wife love to travel and spend time with their three grown children. As a native West Virginian, he appreciates the state's natural beauty and its simple way of life. Brad graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Ed is also the Chair of the Operational Control Group and the Operational Control Group Advisors, two groups comprised of management and decision makers from all departments in the organization. These groups are responsible for processes in the organization and have been focused on documenting all business processes, identifying "pain points" that require improvement and developing projects to enhance operations so the company can thrive.

As the Chair, Ed is the gatekeeper between the groups and the Steering Committee made up of senior management. Ed sees these groups as an opportunity to improve communication and clarity within the business and provide an opportunity for understanding how the departments interact, identifying areas for improvement and putting the plans into action.

Ed is committed to focusing on the vision of creating and maintaining a sustainable business model that survives on its own, allowing the core management of the business to be directly involved with decisions on a day-to-day basis.

Ed began his career in public accounting over 20 years ago with a New England regional based public accounting firm where he earned his CPA certification. Looking for a change, Ed transitioned to corporate accounting where his responsibility increased, ultimately holding positions as a Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations, and Vice President and General Manager of a division in construction, specialty chemical, cosmetics and warranty service industries.

During his tenure at MacDermid, Inc., as the General Manager, Ed orchestrated a turnaround of failing business units by developing a focused strategic plan, restructuring the business, executing a key strategic acquisition and implementing financial/operational disciplines and controls surrounding quality, customer service, execution of key projects and employee alignment with the core strategy.

Ed holds a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Western Connecticut State University's Ancell School of Business and certifications in Six Sigma, PSS and RADAR programs.

Away from work, Ed enjoys spending time with his wife and four daughters who are very active in sports. He considers himself one of their biggest fans. Ed is also an avid golfer and cook who has travelled the globe on business sampling cultural cuisine and bringing those specialties home to his family.