Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO and leadership

In his role as Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Stephen is committed to leveraging his deep experience and leadership in the clean energy sector and his legal expertise to help support FirstLight’s strategic mission and vision. He joins FirstLight after leading Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) as CEO for the past six years. In addition to his deep expertise in the dynamic renewable power and clean technology sector, Stephen brings over a decade of experience serving as outside general counsel to privately held and publicly traded companies, advising on transaction, commercial and operational matters, focusing primarily on financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining MassCEC in 2013 - originally as general counsel - Stephen served as a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge where he focused on venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and other areas of corporate law. He also served in the Weld administration in the 1990s where he worked as an assistant to the EEA undersecretary and then as legislative director of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Galen Nelson is a Chief Program Officer at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked as Director of Market Development at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Project Manager at Green Roundtable, and Senior Director at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Galen studied at Colby College between 1988 and 1992.

Jennifer Daloisio is the Chief Executive Officer at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Jennifer Daloisio attended UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics.