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
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Maddie Tamagni
Chief of Staff
Madeline is the Chief of Staff at Rewiring America. Before being promoted to this role, she led Consumer Experience and built Rewiring's education & training platform. She has deep marketing and brand experience, having led these functions for direct-to-consumer and venture-backed companies, as well as in agency and corporate settings.

Kristin Eberhard
Vice President of External Affairs
Kristin Eberhard is the Vice President of External Affairs at Rewiring America, responsible for using policy, data, and storytelling to advance RA’s mission. Prior to joining Rewiring, Kristin led the climate program at Niskanen Center, a heterodox think tank building transpartisan support for innovative ideas.

Marjan Mashhadi
General Counsel
Marjan is General Counsel for Rewiring America. She comes to Rewiring 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.

Tracey Patterson
Vice President, Community Implementation
Tracey Patterson is the Vice President 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.

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.

Gina Lau
Head of People & Culture
Gina Lau is the Head of People & Culture at Rewiring America, responsible for building an empowering environment where our team members can thrive and do their best work. She comes to Rewiring with over 20 years of people strategy experience, having architected inclusive and high-performing work cultures recognized by Forbes.