Ken Smith is a career entrepreneur with over fifteen years of senior management experience in startup companies.  Ken is also a life-long environmental conservationist.  At age 24 he was chosen as the youngest-ever member of the Long-range Planning Committee for the Chocorua Lake Association (CLA) in Chocorua, NH, and later served three terms on the CLA Board including one term as Treasurer during which time he helped lead a major capital campaign for land acquisition and preservation helping to maintain Chocorua Lake as one of the most pristine lakes in the nation.  In the early 1980's, he was recruited by world-renown explorer/cartographer H. Bradford Washburn to work on a seven-year project to survey and map Mt. Washington & The Presidential Range in New Hampshire, and he has volunteered on dozens of trail maintenance crews for the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Chocorua Mountain Club, and for the US Forrest Service in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and northern California.

Prior to starting Smith Energy, Ken was the founder & CEO of Digiticians, one of the first in the nation digital home IT support and web services companies, which he started in 2000 and successfully sold to a group backed by cable industry executives in 2006.  In 1999 Ken was recruited by a venture capital firm to be Vice President of Marketing & Strategy for eYak, an IP Telephony concern, where he helped grow the company from 8 to over 100 employees and raise the company's valuation from $10M to $210M in nine months. Previously Ken served as Director of e-Strategy at Mainspring, a Cambridge-based Internet strategy boutique, and VP Consulting Services for USWeb's Boston-based Internet strategy consulting practice.  In 1996 he was co-founder of the Internet advertising division of Boston-based consumer advertising giant Arnold Communications.  And Ken's first entrepreneurial venture was as co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for Communicate, a Santa Monica-based retail Internet access company.  Ken is a founding board member of the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council and served for five years as president of the International Interactive Communications Society Boston chapter.  He is a frequent speaker at major Internet conferences throughout the US, in the UK and Germany and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Tufts University, Boston College and UCLA.  Ken holds an M.Ed with honors from Simmons College in Boston, and a BA from the University of San Francisco.

Albert Morales, Chief Operating Officer
Al Morales is an executive with over ten years in the renewable energy and financial fields, with a broad range of experience including operations and capital raising. Prior to joining Smith Energy Al acted as Executive Vice President of Environmental Power Corporation (Amex: EPG), a publicly-traded developer of renewable energy facilities, and as Chief Operating Officer of Microgy, EPG’s principal operating subsidiary. In those roles he helped transition the company from “development” to “operating” stage, oversaw project development and day-to-day operating activities. Previously, Al was a Vice President at Latona Associates, a private merchant bank, where he exercised a broad range of responsibilities for a $500 million portfolio of businesses. At Latona he was responsible for monitoring the performance of portfolio companies, managing critical operational projects and maintaining an active corporate development program. Prior to Latona, Al was an investment banker at ING Barings Furman Selz, providing advisory and capital-raising services to clients in the manufacturing sector. Al began his career as a corporate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he participated in a variety of mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance transactions for clients in a broad range of industries.

Al graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in economics, received a J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review, and received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. Al serves on the Board of Trustees of The Music Hall, a non-profit performing arts center in Portsmouth, NH.

Michael Roach, VP Finance