A team focused on your success.

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Explore our culture.

When you choose NovaSource, you’ll know your O&M provider, top to bottom. We deliver turnkey support across the renewables project lifecycle, working to prevent and solve problems all along the way. Our long-term client relationships tell the story best — and proof of our quality is in our performance.

Built to drive performance …

  • Foster a culture of growth and development
  • Master-mentors build expert teams with longstanding relationships
  • Empowered technicians take on-target actions
  • Accessible leadership nurture a problem-solving culture

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our experience

NovaSource Power Services is your new O&M service partner — but our pedigree is as old as the solar industry itself. Our core team came together in the 1990s at solar industry pioneer, PowerLight, acquired by SunPower in 2006. We became NovaSource Power Services in 2020.

At NovaSource, safety is an agile discipline. We invest in continuous, customized safety training to empower every technician and protect each client. Our constant attention to safety means we stand ready to address challenges that may derail other providers.

We are built from the ground up to scale with your renewables portfolio around the world. Our team is poised with the capabilities to drive innovation across the design, maintenance, and management of off-grid, commercial, industrial, and utility scale solar projects. That’s how we empower a renewable world.

Meet our leadership team

Our leaders are innovative thinkers with an impressive range of experiences, backgrounds, and achievements. They each have one thing in common—to empower a renewable world.

Akshay Sagar President and CEO
Timo Moeller Chief Growth Officer
Jessica Bennett Chief Legal Officer
Kyle Pounds Chief Financial Officer
Danielle Malbrough Executive Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer
Doug Taylor Senior Vice President of Global Operations
Frank Kelly Vice President of Performance Optimization
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Megan Winchell Senior Vice President of Global EHS and Quality
Akshay Sagar
President and CEO

Akshay Sagar is a strategic energy executive with a reputation for starting, transforming, and turning around global businesses. He is a growth-focused leader who has helmed major businesses for companies including Paterson-UTI, Weatherford International, Halliburton, and Schlumberger. Recently, Akshay led the turnaround of the Universal Pressure Pumping business, tripling revenue and delivering significant margin improvement for Paterson-UTI.

With that, he has developed deep experience across the energy and industrial service sectors. He has developed and expanded product portfolios, guided complex corporate transactions, and spurred transformations resulting in operational efficiencies and margin improvements. He has also launched digital platforms, including remote operations and ML/AI tools, to drive best practices, enhance performance efficiencies, and introduce organizational knowledge management systems.

Akshay has been in on-the-ground roles in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and has wide experience managing business performance across cultures, regulatory regimes, and geopolitical risk.

Akshay earned an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is a member of the Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) Board as well as the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA). A long-time participant in and supporter of education-focused nonprofits, he founded the Sakshar School in India, which prepares students for higher education studies in engineering and medicine, and is active in Eyes on Me, a Houston-based organization that helps support recently-released felons into society through goals coaching and business skills

Timo Moeller
Chief Growth Officer

Mr. Timo Moeller is the Chief Growth Officer of NovaSource Power Services, responsible for Sales and Marketing, Product Development, Product Management, as well as M&A globally.

Prior to joining NovaSource, Mr. Moeller served as Head of Commercial and Revenue of First Solar’s Energy Services division, where he had the mandate to grow the market leadership position in the solar O&M space in North America.

Mr. Moeller started his renewable energy career in 2006 when he joined First Solar in Germany. He moved to the United States in 2011 to establish a global post-sales service organization for First Solar. In 2021, Mr. Moeller, his wife and two daughters relocated to Lyon, France to support NovaSources European growth strategy.

Mr. Moeller has an Electrical Engineering degree from the Technical College Worms, Germany and a Business Management degree (MBA equivalent) with specialization in Information Management from the Academy of Administration and Business Management Mannheim, Germany.

Jessica Bennett
Chief Legal Officer

Jessica began her legal career at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP in New York before joining a client’s private investment vehicle and its NYSE-listed energy company as a vice president. Throughout her career, Jessica has advised boards of directors and senior management of, and institutional investors in, publicly-traded companies and private equity investment firms and their portfolio companies on matters ranging from general corporate matters to IPOs, M&A and complex commercial transactions. Prior to law school, Jessica worked in The White House.

Kyle Pounds
Chief Financial Officer

Kyle is an accomplished executive with over 20 years of financial and management experience in the Energy and Oil Field Services Industry. Kyle started his career at Wyle Laboratories, a contractor for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  He then returned to school to pursue his Master of Business Administration at Texas A&M University, and upon graduation joined Halliburton, where he held a number of financial roles over more than 14 years.  In late 2014, Kyle joined Weatherford International where he again held a variety of financial as well as management roles, including his last role in which he led the operations for the Eastern Area of the United States.  In 2022 Kyle joined Universal, the pressure pumping business of Patterson-UTI, as Vice President for Finance and Supply Chain, and he most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of Eastern Energy Services.

Danielle Malbrough
Executive Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer

Danielle brings over 15 years of Human Resources leadership within the energy industry. Most recently, she was the Vice President of Global Human Resources at Dover Precision Components, successfully leading high-impact and scalable business, people, and talent programs and initiatives. She is passionate about achieving short and long-term business strategic objectives through collaborative partnerships.

Doug Taylor
Senior Vice President of Global Operations
Frank Kelly
Vice President of Performance Optimization

Frank joined the company in 2010, bringing 19 years of invaluable experience in the energy industry, with a specialization in solar power for 14 years.  His career commenced in the US Navy as a Nuclear Electronics Technician, where he served for 8 years aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Excelsior College, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho.  His diverse educational background and extensive industry expertise make him a pivotal leader in driving our company’s commitment to sustainable energy solutions and operational excellence.

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Megan Winchell
Senior Vice President of Global EHS and Quality

Megan began her career in the energy industry as a Field Engineer with Schlumberger.  She held various positions in Schlumberger including Geounit Operations Manager for Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Singapore Pressure Pumping and Chemistry Manufacturing Manager, and Drilling Group People Productivity Manager, as well as roles in business development, engineering, training, sales and HR.

Megan then moved to Universal Pressure Pumping as Vice President of HSE and supported integration efforts post-merger with NexTier Completion Services as Vice President of HSE Integration before joining NovaSource Power Solutions as Senior Vice President of Global EHS and Quality.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

Meet our board members

Bill Morneau Chairman of the Board
Ken Rotman CEO & Managing Director Clairvest
Angus Cole Managing Director Clairvest
Scott Hauser Director OMERS Private Equity
John Barnett
Michael Alvarez
Michael Alvarez COO Longroad Energy
Bill Morneau
Chairman of the Board
Ken Rotman
CEO & Managing Director
Angus Cole
Managing Director
OMERS Private Equity
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Scott Hauser
Director
John Barnett
Michael Alvarez
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Michael Alvarez
COO

As Chief Operating Officer, Michael is responsible for managing Longroad Energy’s operations, asset management, construction, HR, IT and facilities activities. Prior to co-founding Longroad Energy, Michael served as President and CFO of First Wind, which he joined in 2006. Michael has also served as Vice President of Strategy at EIX, a utility holding company, as well as President of energy project developer, Kenetech Energy Systems.

Want to grow a renewables career?

At NovaSource, we know that empowering our people is the best way to make our clients successful. That’s why we invest in you. Are you ready to grow a career?

Sustainable careers, comprehensive benefits, and competitive pay

Mentorship + safety training create stability for our teams and build world-class culture across 5 continents

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