Maria Woodman
Principal, Energy Transition Investing at RockCreek
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
RockCreek's energy transition team is focused on investing in high-growth companies with pragmatic and proven solutions that have positive impacts on sustainability and the environment.
Rock Creek is a leading, highly respected global investment and advisory firm that provides our investors with solutions
Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation
2022 - 2022
Vice President, Innovation & Commercialization
2021 - 2022
Associate Vice President, Innovation & Commercialization
2019 - 2021
Energy Impact Partners is an investment firm focused on the conversion of the energy industry towards a decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and electrified future. We work closely with leading innovators and some of the world's most valuable and innovative energy companies to create a better future.
Energy Impact Partners is a collaborative strategic investment firm that invests in energy companies.
Principal
2018 - 2019
ADL Ventures builds new business units and spinouts for mid- and large-cap companies in the building materials, construction, and power, gas & water utility industries. The ADL model helps corporations leverage internal resources to grow their business while defending their current market share from competitors and new entrants alike.
ADL Ventures is a company that focuses on developing & deploying new services & products on behalf of legacy-sector corporations.
Raised $125,000.00 from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Summer Associate
2017 - 2017
ClearSky is a venture capital firm specializing in late stage and growth equity investments. It seeks to invest in energy, clean power, and technology businesses.
ClearSky is a venture capital/growth equity group
Associate Product Manager, Emerging Opportunities
2015 - 2016
• Led product development for technology and innovation partnerships including: integrating aspects of newly obtained technology (from third party partners or newly acquired companies) into EnerNOC’s existing product offering and driving execution on first-of-a-kind initiatives by designing new business processes and product delivery models. • Supported due diligence and business case creation for technology partnerships that support long term product innovation
Senior Utility Solutions Specialist
2014 - 2015
• Led EnerNOC’s domestic market analysis function, including managing the process to evaluate over 30 new utility markets for EnerNOC in 2014 and owning process improvement of EnerNOC’s market sizing methodology and model • Managed proposal development process including: creating proposal content, developing pricing analyses and profitability models, and obtaining internal stakeholder support; covered over 15 new business opportunities totaling $500MM in expected contracted revenue • Owned and delivered thought leadership content that supports and establishes a differentiated position for EnerNOC in utility markets
Utility Solutions Specialist
2013 - 2014
• Contributed market assessments for new business opportunities, including presenting and defending conclusions to senior management team • Assessed the overall market opportunity for demand response and energy efficiency by conducting targeted market research projects, developing market segmentations, and evaluating the competitive landscape • Supported development of RFP responses and sole sourced proposals including: market sizing, content development, and pricing and profitability analyses • Supported utility focused marketing efforts, including email campaign administration and conference/webinar coordination • Managed and optimized the team’s use of salesforce.com CRM, including building dashboards and reports to help refine and track sales pipeline and marketing objectives
Lead Generation Specialist
2011 - 2013
• Owned EnerNOC’s lead scoring initiative including model algorithm development, pilot implementation, full scale roll-out, and success metric tracking; resulting in ~$10M in incremental margin during the first year of the initiative • Worked with field marketing and sales leadership teams to develop and execute the lead generation strategies for EnerNOC’s markets in the Northeast and Western US, and Alberta, CA.
Marketing Intern
2010 - 2011
• Designed CRM dashboards and Excel based tools to track marketing’s touch of accounts through the sales pipeline • Developed and implemented a method for identifying key business contacts from existing customer accounts and tagging them in EnerNOC’s CRM system to enhance cross-selling of EnerNOC’s suite of energy management products
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2016 - 2018
B.A.
2007 - 2011