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Catherine Luthin has over 30 years of financial and energy management experience within the corporate, non–profit and regulatory environments. She is the President of Luthin Associates, founded in 1994, an energy management consulting firm that proactively manages energy procurement and sustainability services for their clients. This is accomplished by delivering cost savings based upon innovative thinking and process improvements for the education, health care and real estate industries. To date, Luthin Associates has saved over $360 million for their clients.

Catherine also chairs and manages Consumer Power Advocates (CPA), an association of large, non-profit institutions whose primary goal is to decrease the cost of energy by focusing on regulatory decisions and programs which impact energy consumers in New York State. Catherine is a former member of Mayor Bloomberg’s New York City Energy Policy Task Force, and is currently a member of BOMA NY’s Energy Committee, the Association of Energy Engineer’s Certified Energy Procurement Board and she is Energy Policy Chairperson for the Association of Energy Engineer’s Council on Women in Energy and Environmental Leadership.

In 2002 she was named “Energy Service Professional of the Year” for the State of New York and in 2004 she was named International “Energy Service Professional of the Year” by the Association of Energy Engineers. Catherine has also been chosen by the Leading Women Entrepreneurs & Business Owners as a Top 25 Leading Woman Entrepreneur of New Jersey for 2015. In addition, Luthin Associates has been honored as one of the Top 100 Diversity Businesses in New Jersey and has been awarded Outstanding MWBE by Anchin in 2012 and received Anchin's Outstanding Advocacy Award in 2013. Catherine has also been a guest lecturer at CUNY‘s Institute for Urban Systems, Cornell University and Columbia University’s Environmental and Energy Policy Department. She is a results-focused and effectual leader with proven ability to develop and implement energy management initiatives within major New York institutions.

Catherine has a MBA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson.