Steven Strasser
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Prior to becoming the Company’s CEO in October 2004, Mr. Strasser was the Managing Director, founder and majority owner of Summit Energy Ventures LLC (“Summit”), the largest shareholder in Power Efficiency Corporation. Summit is a private equity firm focused on investments in companies with energy efficiency technologies. At Summit, Mr. Strasser spent four years, from 2001-2005, evaluating and investing in energy technology companies and serving on the boards of portfolio companies. Mr. Strasser has been a director since August 2002.

From 1984 through 2000, Mr. Strasser was the founder and CEO of Northwest Power Enterprises. Over its seventeen-year history, Northwest Power Enterprises and its predecessor companies were involved in multiple aspects of the energy development business.

Mr. Strasser received law degrees from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

BJ Lackland
Director, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary

Prior to joining Power Efficiency, Mr. Lackland was the Vice President and Director of Summit Energy Ventures, a private equity firm that is the largest shareholder in Power Efficiency Corporation. Summit focuses on investments in companies with energy efficiency technologies. Prior to Summit, Mr. Lackland was the Director of Strategic Relations at Encompass Globalization and the Director of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at an Internet business development consulting company. Mr. Lackland also worked at The National Bureau of Asian Research, an internationally acclaimed research company focusing on U.S. policy toward Asia.

Mr. Lackland earned an M.B.A. from the University of Washington Business School, an M.A. in International Studies (Asian Studies) from the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, and a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Claremont McKenna College.

Brian Taylor
Senior Vice President

Prior to joining Power Efficiency Corporation, Mr. Taylor was Business Manager, Standard Drives of Rockwell Automation and was responsible for the $360M global standard drives business.  In his 19 years with Rockwell Automation he held various positions of increasing responsibility, including management positions in the Company's Industrial Controls and Presence Sensing Businesses.  Mr. Taylor started his career as a Software Engineer in the PLC business with Rockwell Automation in 1988.

Mr. Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University.