Director of Market Strategy

Kevin Whilden is the Director of Market Strategy for Climos. He brings 8 years of multi-disciplinary experience working in the field of climate change and related fields. His role with Climos is to develop the sales and marketing strategy for Climos to be competitive in both the regulatory and voluntary markets for greenhouse gas offsets.

Prior to joining Climos, Kevin spent two years as an Analyst for the Energy Trust of Oregon, one of the nations leading energy efficiency development non-profits. His responsibilities included developing shortterm and long range strategies for investment in energy efficiency and renewable projects for portfolios totaling $35 million annually. He also developed strategy for integrating the existing energy efficiency and renewable energy markets with developing greenhouse gas markets. These three markets are likely to become tightly integrated as the mostcost-effective solution to a nationwide convergence on a carbon-neutraleconomy.

Kevin also assisted the Energy Trust in the development of Market Transformation strategy, which is a coordinated approach by the energy efficiency professional community to cause rapid and low cost shifts in the behavior of consumers and markets to be inherently more efficient in the consumption of energy. Market Transformation is a proven method to overcome market barriers. Click here for more details.

Prior to joining the Energy Trust, Kevin worked as a consultant in the development of greenhouse gas markets as an employee of Trexler and Associates for two years, where he specialized in complex modeling of supply and demand of GHG credits in an emerging regulatory environment.

Kevin has an MS in Geology from the University of Washington where his research studied the impact of climate change on permafrost in Antarctica, and a BS in Physics from the University of California at San Diego where he studied complex systems theory and geophysics.