Marc Palmer

Co-founder, CEO and Board Member

Marc has spent over 14 years in the finance industry, including the last 10 years exclusively focused on renewable energy project finance. In life before NRS, he was a key member of the structured finance team for Invenergy, North America’s largest independently owned renewable energy provider. During Marc’s tenure with Invenergy, he led or supported over $1B in project capital raising for solar, wind, and combined cycle natural gas technologies across the US and Canada.

Prior to entering the renewable energy industry, Marc was a strategy and management consultant for PwC and Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, where he assisted the world’s largest banks and financial institutions in strategically positioning their companies for growth. Marc holds a MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan

Ted Strickland

Former Governor of Ohio (2007-2011)

Ted Strickland was born in Lucasville, Ohio, one of nine children. He received his bachelor’s degree from Asbury College in Kentucky in 1963. He went on to attend the Asbury Theological Seminary and received a Master of Divinity. He continued his studies at the University of Kentucky, receiving a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology in 1980. Strickland has served as a minister, a psychologist, and a college professor. He was an administrator at a Methodist children’s home, an assistant professor of psychology at Shawnee State University, and a consulting psychologist at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF). In 1992, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he helped author the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a federal initiative that now provides health insurance to millions of children of working parents.

Strickland was elected Governor of Ohio in November 2006. As governor, he focused on improving the climate for businesses in Ohio, in part through tax reductions and regulatory overhaul. He saw Ohio win the Governor’s Cup from Site Selection magazine for its success in economic development. In addition, during Strickland’s tenure, the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council raised Ohio’s state ranking for ‘business climate’ from 38th to 11th in the nation and from 7th to 1st in the Midwest.

Strickland created FAST TRAC, an initiative aimed at increasing infrastructure projects in Ohio. A supporter of renewable energy production, he signed off on a standard calling for one-quarter of Ohio’s energy to be produced by renewables within 25 years. Strickland also made education reform a hallmark of his administration, and saw Ohio public schools rise in rank from 27th to 5th in the nation according to Education Week. Also during his administration, a state university system was established to ensure greater access by Ohioans to in-state education and in turn to make it more attractive for them to remain in the state after finishing school.

After his time as Governor, Strickland ran the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He was also a fellow with the Bipartisan Policy Center and taught at the Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard School of Public Health and Ohio University. He has been married to his wife Frances for 30 years.

Eli Flournoy

Board Member; Executive Director, Sugarbush Valley LLC

Eli is a social impact investor and co-founder of Sugarbush Valley LLC – A Social Enterprise Development Company, based in Athens, Ohio. On the New Resource Solutions board, Eli will tap into his background in environmentally sustainable economic development to connect non-profits and philosophically motivated for-profits and individuals to mission-aligned investment opportunities in renewable energy projects.

For more than a decade Eli has served as a director and co-founder of the Sugar Bush Foundation, a supporting organization to the Ohio University Foundation. The Sugar Bush Foundation works with Ohio University and local communities to improve the quality of life in Appalachian Ohio by encouraging civic engagement and by fostering sustainable environmental and socioeconomic development, funding jointly-designed projects in the areas of zero waste, environmental protection and restoration, and sustainable development.

Eli is also a veteran journalist, living in Atlanta and consulting for international news media companies following a 24-year career at CNN. An avowed tree-hugger, Eli is an active member of Environment Georgia and the Arbor Day Foundation, and practices sustainable forestry with his family timber businesses in Texas and Ohio. Eli holds a BA in Political Science from Indiana University and MBA from Ohio University (August 2017).