About Us

Emily Norcross is an accomplished executive leader and corporate strategist with a talent for organizing and scaling small businesses. Emily's background is in software as a service for the homeland security and emergency management fields, where she successfully grew a tech startup to achieve revenue maturity, profitability, and a successful sale. After more than 15 years of experience helping organizations respond to sustainability priorities, Emily was ready to explore new opportunities in sustainability and pioneer new strategies to help businesses reduce their carbon emissions and minimize energy expenses. Emily and her family reside in Colorado, where they enjoy backpacking, kayaking, and other mountain adventures.

Terry Bickham has driven success over the past three decades with start-to-finish energy projects in leadership roles for both technical/operations programs and teams. Focused on energy and operational performance, his experience spans project engineering, offer development, financial modeling, risk management, construction and commissioning, as well as continuing operations management, including the performance phase of ESPC projects. Engagements have spanned industrial, food and beverage, healthcare, K-12, institutional, government and other sectors. He has been an internal resource as a corporate energy manager overseeing 36 plants in four countries and helped clients through design build own operate (DBOO), performance contracting, existing building commissioning (EBCx), energy services, new construction and retrofit projects. He has demonstrated particular expertise in integrating the entire portfolio of lifecycle and delivery methods to synthesize best fit solutions to achieve client success, in and out of performance contracting and PPA models as well as standalone energy and facilities projects.


Bickham began his career in engineering and operations roles in the US Navy before operations roles at Oscar Meyer, followed by controls engineering and team leadership at Johnson Controls. He has been the national services director for an energy services company, an energy engineer and energy engineering instructor with a number of firms, as well as energy manager for a multi-national plastics firm. He holds a degree in engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy. A speaker in national forums on Existing Building Commissioning, the building internet of things (BIoT), energy storage, market opportunities/value stacking, the Inflation Reduction Act, and use of data analytics in the built environment, he has also presented on integration of energy services within performance contracts and energy as a service models. He has led the development and implementation of training programs ranging from LEED certification tutoring to STEM awareness to energy performance contracting standards and processes. A former member of the board of the Central Plains USGBC community, USGBC Technical Advisory Groups, committee chair for Collaborative for High Performance Schools, and working group co-chair for distributed energy/energy storage with Mid-West Energy Research Consortium, his professional qualifications include Certified Energy Manager (CEM), LEED AP, Certified Sustainable Design Professional (CSDP), and Certified Demand Side Management (CDSM).

Katrina Johnson is an accomplished product and operations leader, specializing in product management, strategic development, and business operations. With experience in tech startups and the energy industry, she brings years of experience to drive the operations of Green CHP. Outside of the office, she coaches Speech & Debate at a local high school as well as can be found traveling around the globe.

Jake Hurley is a seasoned expert in introducing innovative concepts to the marketplace and stimulating rapid interest in new products. His extensive and varied experience, which ranges from roles as a first responder and military personnel to positions in sales across multiple industries, has equipped him with a unique perspective on problem-solving and strategic planning. Jake's methodology centers on three key pillars: engaging with decision-makers, securing appointments, and cultivating referrals. These strategies have proven effective in helping businesses quickly expand their territories and develop robust client portfolios through consistent prospecting and tailored outreach approaches. Additionally, as a homesteader, Jake applies his hands-on knowledge of both the physical and mental demands involved to demystify complex subjects, making them more accessible and manageable.

For more than 25 years, Rich Phillips has worked with companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to build leadership momentum for products, services and ideas. He has developed strategic growth and marketing campaigns for Boeing, Environmental Protection Agency, LEGO, NASA and more than 200 startups and scale-ups in aerospace, additive manufacturing, AI, healthcare, IoT, remote sensing, telecommunications and security. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston University and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He lives in Austin, Texas.