Learn about the foundation’s board and key leadership.

Alan Simon serves as president and a board member of the NREL Foundation, supporting NREL’s mission of advancing modern energy technologies and supporting the cleantech ecosystem. Alan is the CEO of North America Closeshoring, a strategic advisory firm that assists companies with technology-enabled reindustrialization, modern mobility, and clean energy projects. Alan is also the co-founder and president of Clean Helix Technologies, an early-stage venture that specializes in development and deployment of scalable decarbonization technologies.

Prior to his current roles, Alan spent nearly a decade with private investment firm The Broe Group and its affiliated entities, as a senior executive involved in strategic growth related to logistics, supply chains, cross-border projects, real estate, and energy. Alan has been a partner at law firms Dorsey & Whitney and Greenberg Traurig, where he handled mergers and acquisitions and international corporate transactions.

A board member of the NREL Foundation, Wendolyn Holland’s work with clients in the sustainability sector is driven by purpose and passion. As Managing Director of Holland Consulting, LLC, she advises at the nexus of finance, technology, and policy, focusing on early-stage clean energy and sustainability technologies, the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, and Native American communities. She has a particular expertise in tax strategy and policy. Her clients are both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including the Wilma Mankiller Foundation.

Wendolyn served as Senior Advisor for Commercialization in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy from 2008 through 2011, as a member of the Senior Executive Service. She served in 2012 as Director for Strategic Development and Technical Partnerships at Savannah River National Laboratory, which serves DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. Prior to federal service, Wendolyn was involved with clean energy and water start-up firms. Wendolyn responded to the terrorist attacks of 2001 by joining GlobalOptions, a Washington, D.C. security, investigations, and counter-terrorism start-up, later serving as Vice President.

A board member of the NREL Foundation, Clint Vince is the Chair of Dentons’ US Energy Practice. He has handled complex energy transactions and negotiations, major project developments, and legislative and regulatory advocacy on behalf of public and private clients. Clint has handled more than 600 regulatory and litigation proceedings and appeared before trial and state appellate courts, numerous US District Courts, the US Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Clint also collaborates with leading energy and environmental think tanks and coalitions, including serving on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the World Resource Institute (2011-2021), as outside general counsel for the Alliance to Save Energy (2014-present), as leadership advisor to the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment (2017-present) and as former Co-chair of the Keystone Policy Center and Co-chair of the Aspen Institute World Energy Forum (2015 & 2016) and served as past editor-in-chief of the Energy Law Journal.