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

Ari Matusiak

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.

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.

Saul Griffith

Founder

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

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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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).

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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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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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.