EXPERIENCE TO DESIGN
YOUR BEST ENERGY SOLUTION
Thomas E. Kiser, Chairman, CEO and founder of PSI, is a man with a mission. He is motivated by a passion to change the way the world thinks about energy use and to find new ways to better balance the energy needs of mankind with the need to preserve the environment.
The urgency of his mission has driven Kiser to lead PSI in the development of groundbreaking energy efficiency concepts and patented technology that is dramatically slashing energy costs and shrinking carbon footprints for all types of businesses, institutions and communities. He is best known for his evocative “Kiser Quotient” that stipulates that “Energy needed should be equal to or greater than energy purchased.”
The Kiser Quotient led to the origination of PSI’s Green Machine Protocol that strives to purchase no more than a single unit of energy for every three units that are needed. PSI employs proprietary techniques and state-of-the-art equipment to recapture or reuse energy and incorporates renewable energy in system designs whenever possible to provide the other two units of needed energy.
Kiser is a former football player who turned down a contract offer from the Washington Redskins in order to start his own business. He also coached high school football for 27 years and has served as a special consultant to the coaching staff of the Ohio State University (OSU) Buckeyes’ head coach Jim Tressel in OSU’s championship year of 2002 - 2003.
This experience has led to a Kiser sobriquet of “America’s Energy Coach.” He routinely shares his knowledge and expertise through consultations and speeches in forums around the world, continually promoting the urgency of addressing global energy challenges. His inspiring message is one of cautious optimism that motivates people to move away from apathy and become more proactive in resolving the energy crisis that confronts all of us. Kiser’s ultimate goal is to participate in the development of a national energy strategy and plan for the United States that will enhance national security by increasing energy efficiency and reducing environmental impact through expanded and improved use of green energy strategies.
His role as America’s Energy Coach motivated Kiser to create a training concept called Playbook Corporate Coaching that teaches business executives how to incorporate an Energy Sustainability Team into a corporate culture. Kiser maintains that Sustainability of Energy Efficiency should be a core corporate culture element that drives an organization’s economic engine.
Kiser shares his energy and environmental expertise as a member of the Joint Board of Councilors for the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. He was the first foreigner to be appointed as an energy efficiency advisor to the Shanghai Municipal Economic Commission and today is leading an initiative that is creating sustainable energy efficiency demonstration projects in Shanghai. These projects eventually will evolve into a new energy policy for all of China.
Kiser also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heinz Center, a nonprofit environmental think tank dedicated to developing innovative solutions to today’s environmental programs, and a Professor of Practice in Sustainable Energy Systems at Arizona State University (ASU). Additionally, he is a consultant to the Wege Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that has worked for more than 20 years to advance environmental sustainability with colleges and universities, and to the American College and University Climate Commitment initiative through which approximately 650 colleges and universities have committed to reducing their carbon footprints and adopting other environmental sustainability practices.
In 2006, Kiser began working with the Wege Foundation and ASU on a new initiative aimed at transforming college and university energy use. The Wege Foundation’s pilot program “Economicology Sustainable Strategy for Colleges and Universities” will involve ASU and five other universities in developing and implementing a new sustainable energy curriculum. This curriculum will better prepare students to meet the energy challenges of the future.
An aeronautical engineer by training, Kiser received his degree in Aeronautical Engineering from St. Louis University. He is a board member of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center and resides in Fremont, Ohio, with his wife, three sons, a daughter and four grandchildren.
