Name: Matt Shortsleeve
Title: Regional Director
Company: RGS Energy
Location: Waltham, MA
Place of birth: Worcester
Family: Married with three amazing children
College: Northeastern University; Presidio Graduate School
First job unrelated to your current field: Newspaper delivery boy
First job in current field: NorthShore InnoVentures, incubating clean-tech startups
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? RGS Energy is a developer, financier, and integrator of solar PV systems for the residential, commercial/industrial and utility scale markets. Our shares are publicly traded, we serve clients directly and through industry channels, and are one of a very few full service national solar energy companies.
Hobbies: I coach youth sports, mentor early stage companies, and love outdoor sports and recreation, and I'm a music nut.
Favorite novel: I'm currently reading "The View from Lazy Point" by Carl Safina, and "Creating Climate Wealth" by Jigar Shah.
Keys to success: Make a great plan, follow the plan! Hire great people and support them. Know your priorities, and nurture them.
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? The energy industry has big challenges and bigger opportunities - I'd rather be no place else!