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Who We Are

Your Energy, Your Attributes

Spark Exchange is a cost-effective way for electricity customers to purchase renewable and traditional energy directly from generators and for generation developers and owners to sell their output directly to buyers. Through Spark Exchange’s tech-enabled marketplace platform, we directly connect buyers and sellers of all types of resources more efficiently than ever before.

The Spark Exchange was created by energy veterans with more than three decades of energy expertise in procurement, technology, generation development and advisory.

MEET THE TEAM

Click on the names below to learn more about each of our team members.

Vitana Melesiute

Vitana Melesiute

Vitana is an established leader in the retail energy industry with 22 years of experience. She has marketed energy commodity products and services to large C&I customers. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies in developing customized strategies for energy procurement, demand side management, along with energy efficiency planning and implementation. Vitana is one of the founders of EnerConnex, energy consulting firm, serving customer is US, Canada and Mexico. Prior to EnerConnex, Vitana worked in various roles at World Energy Solutions. Since beginning there, she was an integral part of World Energy’s evolution into one of the largest energy brokerage companies in the country.

Vitana directed the company’s new market entrance program, while transacting over 50 TWh in energy contracts. As a Market Director over the PJM, MISO, NYISO, CAISO and ERCOT markets, her extensive market expertise enabled her to drive customer success by taking advantage of market opportunities while advocating on behalf of the client.

Amy York

Amy York

Amy York is an Association of Energy Engineers (“AEE”) Certified Energy Procurement (“CEP”) professional. She has over a decade of experience in physical and renewable energy market contracting, integrating projects into energy portfolios as well as regulatory analysis and twenty years of overall experience in the energy industry. She specializes in the commercial, industrial, educational and governmental sectors. Since 2008, Ms. York has directed the purchase and sales of $15+ billion of various forms of energy, and has been a principal advisor in electric supply, renewables and natural gas delivery contracts.

Tony Barnhart

Tony Barnhart

Tony is a proven leader with over 30 years in the retail and wholesale energy markets. He has served in various roles in Executive Management, Sales, Regulatory and General Management. As a result, he has dedicated his career to assisting utilities, industrial and commercial customers manage energy requirements enabling them to reduce costs and mitigate risk.

Tony has in-depth experience on both the supply side as well as the Advisory side of the business. Tony helped co-found and grow a regional retail energy supplier that was ultimately acquired by a larger supplier. He also helped build an energy brokerage company as a member of the leadership team. Consequently, he tripled the company’s energy procurement revenues while broadening its service offerings as well as later positioning the company for acquisition at 18x EBITDA. More recently, Tony helped lead an Australian energy software company’s US entry by establishing organic sales while acquiring an energy efficiency rebate management firm. Under his leadership, the firm went from negative to positive earnings in less than a year.

He is also a past board member of TEAM (Texas Energy Association of Marketers) and a current board member of Madison Energy Cooperative.

Bert Wilson

Bert Wilson

Bert Wilson is a Chartered Financial Analyst with over twenty-five years of experience in physical and renewable energy market contract and project development, economic analysis, project finance, and regulatory analysis. He specializes in energy asset and contract development, distributed generation applications and energy risk management. Since 1998, Bert has directed the purchase and sales of $20.0+ billion of various forms of energy, and has been a principal in electric supply and solar development projects. In his current position, Bert manages grid-connected renewable physical energy delivery and onsite generation for clients, as well as wholesale energy purchases and sales for clients. He also developed and manages Peak Day Signal, a capacity management service, and provides generation project development services.

Christian Fuess

Christian Fuess

After spending 12 years in the software field, Christian Fuess transitioned over to White Pine Energy Consulting, LLC.  As the Chief Technology Officer of White Pine, Christian manages several hundred MWs of generation and capacity as well as several hundred MWs of load in both PJM and ISONE.  Christian advises clients and ensures they remain in compliance with all ISO/RTO rules as well as State and Federal regulations. He monitors the PJM stakeholder process to prepare and educate clients on any upcoming market changes.  In addition to these responsibilities, Christian is engaged in building a suite of online tools for White Pine clients.