Meet the leadership team
We’re creative communicators, award-winning policy strategists, seasoned researchers, trusted fundraisers, innovative engineers, and more. We care about culture, connection, community, and climate. We want to give everyone the choice to electrify at home — and have fun doing it.
Our Founders
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Ari Matusiak: Founder, President, and CEO
Founder, President, and CEO
Ari Matusiak is co-founder, president and CEO of Rewiring America. He is founder and co-chair of Power Forward Communities, a national coalition awarded $2 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to decarbonize and reinvest in American households.
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Alex Laskey
Founder and Executive Chair
Alex Laskey is the founder and CEO of a stealth medical device company committed to protecting nurses and doctors as they care for our most vulnerable infectious disease patients.
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Saul Griffith
Founder, Otherlab
Saul Griffith is an engineer and entrepreneur specializing in clean and renewable energy technologies. Saul has founded a dozen technology companies across 20 years in Silicon Valley.
Leadership
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Cammie Croft
Chief of Staff, Vice President, Operations & Planning
Cammie Croft is the chief of staff VP, operations & planning at Rewiring America. She has spent two decades at the intersection of advocacy, marketing, and technology scaling organizations and building high-performing teams that love what they do.
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Tom Carden
Vice President, Engineering
Tom Carden is the vice president, engineering at Rewiring America, leading the in-house development of software tools to drive electrification. Previously, Tom led teams and built products at Square, offering a suite of tools to start, run and grow a business.
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Sarah Lazarovic
Vice President, Communications & Creative Strategy
Sarah Lazarovic is the vice president, communications & creative strategy at Rewiring America. She is a writer, creative director, and marketing strategist. She oversees Rewiring America's communications, creative, and events teams, overseeing brand and creative execution in support of mainstream electric awareness.
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Marjan Mashhadi
General Counsel
Marjan is general counsel for Rewiring America. She comes to RA after having served as a strategic business partner to executives at General Assembly (a vocational institute passionate about closing the global tech skills gap) and TaskRabbit (a two-sided marketplace providing folks of all stripes opportunities to earn a meaningful income).
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Tom Mercer
Vice President, Product
Tom Mercer is the vice president, product at Rewiring America, responsible for building software tools that will help people and communities accelerate their electrification progress. He is also responsible for building the team to deliver on that vision.
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Stephen Pantano
Vice President, Research & Special Projects
Steve Pantano is the vice president, research & special projects at Rewiring America, where he leads efforts to build and share comprehensive working knowledge of how to replace more than one billion fossil fuel devices with clean electric alternatives.
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Tracey Patterson
Vice President, Community Implementation
Tracey Patterson is the VP of community implementation at Rewiring America. Before joining Rewiring, Tracey was the chief program officer at Code for America, where she led nationally-scaled programs to deliver digital products and services with government and communities to measurably improve delivery of public benefits and services for economic mobility.
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Nicole Staple
Vice President, Growth
Nicole Staple is the vice president, growth and previously helped drive internal growth initiatives at Rewiring America. She previously co-founded Brideside, a direct-to-consumer retailer, leading the company as CEO and growing from concept to national e-commerce platform with six retail stores.
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Aimee Witteman
Vice President, Network
As vice president of network at Rewiring America, Aimee leads the investment, policy, and partnership functions and teams, guiding strategy and ensuring alignment with Rewiring America's mission. She brings over two decades of experience leading federal and state policy and grassroots campaigns, working with philanthropies, governments, businesses, and nonprofits to accelerate deep decarbonization of the U.S. economy.
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Jane Choi
Vice President, Finance
Jane Choi is a social impact and nonprofit executive who has worked with rapidly scaling and award-winning organizations around the globe. She was the Country Finance Manager for an international NGO in Pakistan and in Jordan, a CFO for two start-ups in Haiti, and spent five years as the CFO and CSO of myAgro, a financial technology social enterprise working with smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.