Our Team

Evergreen Home Performance crew on box truck

At Evergreen, we believe great homes start with a great team. From your first consult to your final walkthrough, our staff brings passion, experience, and a deep love for Maine homes to every project. Get to know the people who make Evergreen one of the most trusted names in energy efficiency and home comfort.

Fun Facts About Our Team:

  • Number of full-time Evergreen employees: 36
  • Number of BPI-certified professionals on staff: 12 (More than any other Maine company!)
  • Towns and cities in Maine we’ve worked in: Nearly 200!
  • Evergreen staff who’ve been here 10+ years: 9 (Over 25% of our team!)

Management Team

Richard Riegel Burbank

President

Richard Riegel Burbank

President

Richard founded Evergreen Home Performance in 2006 and serves as President and an Energy Advisor. Richard serves on the Board of Efficiency First, a national home performance contractor trade group, and actively advocates for federal and state energy efficiency policy.

A Paris Le Cordon Bleu trained chef, Richard uses his prior career in fine cuisine and food service management to exceed customer expectations with exacting preparations and attention to customer service (insulating homes now, instead of people!). Richard is passionate about educating homeowners on energy efficiency and takes an active role in ongoing education and mentoring of the Evergreen staff. Richard enjoys spending time with his wife and Evergreen co-owner Sammy, and three children, Cecile, Levi, and Joshua. He fills in the balance of his time with organic gardening and playing accordion and concertina while singing sea shanties.

Fun Fact:

Richard’s efforts to insulate and improve his 1880s Rockland home were the inspiration for Evergreen Home Performance. Ten years later, in 2016, with the business thriving, Richard and his family relocated to Falmouth, Maine to better serve the Portland area.

Elise Brown

Executive Vice President

Elise Brown

Executive Vice President

Elise joined Evergreen in 2009 and became a partner in the business in January 2011, delighted to have finally found a business that shares her commitment to customer satisfaction, employee well-being, and environmental stewardship.

Elise is also the Emergency Management Director for Liberty, Maine and brings a broad background in public service, safety training, and management to Evergreen. She has been a professional firefighter, emergency medical technician, Fire Chief & Training Captain, and assistant director of a non-profit. At Evergreen, she focuses on marketing, human resources, and employee health & safety training programs. When not in the office making things hum, Elise can be found on her farm in Liberty, raising her children, Rose and Seth, as well as chickens, fruits, and vegetables alongside her partner, Martha Piscuskas.

Fun Fact:

Elise’s 1830 brick farmhouse is heated by a woodstove, with a backup oil furnace. Evergreen’s comprehensive energy upgrades made the house cozy and comfortable and transformed her typical wet Maine basement into clean, dry storage space for organic produce from her farm. Revision Energy recently installed a ground-mounted solar array and she is eager to convert from fossil fuels to all-electric over the next few years.

Brian Robinson

Vice President & Manager of Sales

Brian Robinson

Vice President & Manager of Sales

Brian joined Evergreen in 2009 and serves as Vice President as well as being a certified Building Analyst and Energy Auditor.

Brian spent twenty years in his first career helping youth recognize and develop their potential through direct experiences in nature. Brian’s passion is for helping homeowners create dramatically more comfortable and energy efficient homes with smaller carbon footprints. Homeowners appreciate that he provides them the diagnosis and solutions to inform their decisions on the best ways to improve comfort and efficiency in their homes. Outside of work Brian serves on Camden’s Energy and Parks & Recreation Committees. He can often be found volunteering on the Ragged Mountain Ski Patrol at the Camden Snow Bowl and enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children, preferably in the outdoors.

Fun Fact:

Brian has undertaken major energy improvements in his Camden, Maine home, reducing air leakage by half and reducing energy consumption by 60%. In addition to fully insulating his basement, dense packing roof slopes with cellulose, and adding cellulose between the first and second floors, his home now features programmable thermostats, ultra low flow showerheads, solar hot water, and a high efficiency washing machine.

Brian Schortz

General Manager

Brian Schortz

General Manager

Brian has been with Evergreen since 2008 and is passionate about working for an organization that makes a difference in the lives of its customers.

Brian brings 10+ years of corporate operational management, while working in food service with Sodexho. An active part of the Belfast, Maine community, Brian spends the majority of his time with his family, including his wife Lindsey, two children, Genevieve and Anna, as well as their two Labrador retrievers.

Fun Fact:

Brian lives in a classic Maine home: inefficient, cold, and damp, with tremendous untapped energy upgrades just waiting to be tackled. Strategic air sealing in his attic just whetted his appetite for a more comprehensive project in the future.

Bryan Pringle

Process/Continuous Improvement Manager

Bryan Pringle

Process/Continuous Improvement Manager

Bryan joined Evergreen as a technician in 2011 after being introduced to energy efficiency and building performance principles through coursework at SMCC.

Bryan has served in many different capacities at Evergreen since then, including as a project supervisor, window & door installer, energy advisor and regional production manager. Currently, as Evergreen’s process/continuous improvement manager, Bryan is responsible for examining various workflows within the company and working with teams to make and standardize improvements. He is passionate about reducing the environmental impacts of human consumption, including the excess energy required to maintain comfort in many existing residential homes.

As a BPI Certified Building Analyst, Bryan is committed to helping Mainers lower their energy use while improving the comfort they experience year-round in their homes.

Fun Fact:

Bryan’s home is an 1840s cape located in historic downtown Saco. Efficiency upgrades he’s made include basement water management, encapsulation and insulation, as well as attic air sealing and insulation, which have dramatically improved the comfort and livability of the home. The upgrades have also reduced its energy consumption by nearly 50%. Heated primarily with wood pellets, supplemented by oil (blended with 20% biofuel), Bryan sources electricity through a community solar farm to power his home, including the heat pump water heater used to deliver hot water to the household.

In his free time, Bryan enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, hiking, running, biking and especially going on adventures of all types with his daughter.

Aaron Willson

Portland Production Manager

Aaron Willson

Portland Production Manager

Aaron owned and operated his own home repair business for 13 years before joining Evergreen’s Window & Door division in 2019.

After spending many long cold winters in Maine, Aaron was eager to help Maine families reap the rewards of energy efficiency investments. He brings a wealth of home construction, local code compliance, and blueprint reading skills to his job. He enjoys giving his customers satisfaction through excellent customer service, attention to detail, and a get-it-done work ethic.

Aaron lives in Limington with his wife and seven children, in a circa 1840 Victorian home with plenty of upgrade opportunities! When not working on the housing or driving kids to lacrosse games, Aaron enjoys wood-working in his home shop.

Energy Advisors

Irene Flynn

Rockland-based Energy Advisor

Irene Flynn

Rockland-based Energy Advisor

Irene joined Evergreen Home Performance in 2023 and serves as an Energy Advisor in the Rockland, Maine office. Irene’s career includes 10 years of working in land conservation throughout midcoast Maine, after which Irene pivoted into the energy conservation industry with Evergreen Home Performance. With a strong background in environmental science, Irene is motivated to help Mainers reduce their energy consumption. Interestingly, Irene was first an Evergreen customer before she came to work for the company. She now uses her previous experience as an Evergreen customer to help guide her day-to-day practice as an Evergreen Sales Advisor.

Fun Fact:

Irene’s Rockland home was built around 1890. After the attic was buttoned up by Evergreen in 2022, the home now also features an insulated field stone foundation basement and is all-electric. A combination of home heat pumps and wood heat the home during winter, along with a heat pump hot water heater, all powered by solar.

When she’s not at work, Irene enjoys rocking out with her children, maintaining a section of the Appalachian Trail, baking bread and cakes, vegetable gardening and joyfully tackling a never-ending list of DIY projects at home. Irene resides in Rockland with her young family and their big dopey dog Marge, and overly friendly cat Charn.

Dave Holmes

Portland-based Energy Advisor

Dave Holmes

Portland-based Energy Advisor

Dave joined Evergreen Home Performance in 2014. With a background in home construction, remodeling, and engineering, Dave started at Evergreen in October 2014 as an installation technician. He later became a project supervisor in early 2016 and assumed a lead position as a window and door installer in 2018. From 2019 to 2022 Dave left Evergreen to expand his home construction skills by working with a few independent contractors. He also ran his own home remodeling and renovation business during this time. He returned to Evergreen in 2023 and transitioned into a sales advisor role in 2024.
Dave, a Dale Carnegie leadership training graduate, enjoys meeting new and amazing people at their homes across Southern Maine to learn about their home energy concerns. He’s dedicated to helping Mainers improve their energy efficiency and the comfort they experience in their homes.

Fun Fact:

With a lot of hard work and help from many friends, Dave has been able to significantly improve the performance of his 1998-built home in Gray since purchasing it back in 2017. Through air sealing and installing ample amounts of dense pack cellulose, mineral wool and continuous board insulation, the home now comfortably provides for Dave and his family. Outside of his work-life, Dave enjoys camping, skiing, grilling, swimming at Sebago Lake, gardening, woodworking, and voice acting. He resides in Gray with his wife, Stephanie, and their two boys.

Justin McEdward

Portland-based Energy Advisor

Justin McEdward

Portland-based Energy Advisor

With a professional background in project management, sales and customer service, Justin joined Evergreen Home Performance in 2013 as a field technician. In 2015, he moved into the role of Energy Advisor. As a BPI Certified Building Analyst, Justin is able to effectively diagnose and recommend the most practical solutions to address the various home performance issues of his clients. A Dale Carnegie leadership training graduate, Justin is committed to helping Maine homeowners understand the benefits of having the right amount and type of insulation installed in their homes. He loves being able to help people in his own community be more comfortable in their homes while also reducing their carbon footprint and improving their air quality too.

Fun Fact:

Justin’s Portland home is powered by 16 solar panels. Following significant insulation and air sealing upgrades to both the basement and attic, year-round comfort is maintained in the home with the use of several air-sourced heat pumps and a heat pump water heater. In his free time, Justin enjoys playing frisbee golf, hiking, mountain biking, reading, practicing mindfulness, and woodworking. He resides in Portland with his partner and their two kids.

Bruce Merryman

Portland-based Energy Advisor

Bruce Merryman

Portland-based Energy Advisor

With a wealth of knowledge and expertise gained from working in residential and commercial building construction, Bruce joined Evergreen Home Performance in 2011 as an installation technician.Throughout his career, Bruce has been involved with nearly every aspect of the building construction trade. From seaside home renovations, framing to footing, drywall to door hanging, Bruce has served as an employee, business co-owner, and as a subcontractor on hundreds of construction sites across Maine. Serving as a project supervisor for over a decade, Bruce has developed and implemented numerous program, job site and workflow strategies that emphasize teamwork, communication and attention to detail.
As a BPI Certified Building Analyst and Energy Auditor, Bruce is committed to helping Mainers improve the energy efficiency and comfort experienced in their homes. Combining his many years of fieldwork and home performance knowledge, Bruce enjoys working with homeowners to learn about their goals, areas of concern and then discussing the best way to make improvements to help them reach those goals.

Fun Fact:

Bruce replaced the oil heater with a wood-burning masonry heater in his passive solar saltbox home, located in Topsham. His future plans include, among other things, installing a fresh air ventilation system that is similar to the one he installed in his previous home. When he’s not working, Bruce enjoys being outdoors hiking, traveling, and cooking with his wood-fired ovens and grill.

Nate Spectre

Rockland-based Energy Advisor

Nate Spectre

Rockland-based Energy Advisor

Following many years of working in building construction and home repair, Nate joined Evergreen Home Performance in 2010. Nate brings years of hands-on experience and practical working knowledge of home-building methods both past and present to his role as an Evergreen sales advisor. He grew up in midcoast Maine.
Nate is committed to helping Mainers improve the energy efficiency and comfort experienced in their homes. He is certified by the Building Performance Institute (BPI) as a Building Analyst. When he’s not at work, Nate enjoys spending time with his family and cycling on the beautiful back roads of Searsmont, where he lives with his wife, Kim.

Nima Farshid

Portland-based Energy Advisor

Nima Farshid

Portland-based Energy Advisor

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The team members were very professional, worked very hard, paid very close attention to detail and cleaned up meticulously every day. I really appreciated the care they took knowing the smallest details were going to make a big difference to our heating bills. Thank you!

Pam B.

Brunswick

Evergreen removed and replaced the insulation in my attic. They did a great job!, Crew was excellent, and the whole thing went smoothly, and the attic was NOT easy to get into or work in, so kudos to some hard work done well!

Joel A.

Portland

We initially contacted Evergreen through Efficiency Maine for an energy audit, which was conducted promptly and professionally by Justin McEdward, one of their Energy Advisors who is BPI-certified. After a thorough inspection of our newly purchased home, Justin explained in great detail what we needed and did not need. It was agreed that Evergreen would remove all of the existing attic insulation, which was not adequate, and replace it with blown in cellulose, to a rating of R-60.

Thomas W.

Scarborough

Highly recommended. Our heating usage is now less than half what it was before we had our roof insulated. Evergreen was knowledgeable, friendly, and left no trace they were ever in our house. Not only is our heating bill much lower now, but our home is generally more comfortable year-round with less temperature fluctuations. Money well spent.

RC Lations

Our basement was the eyesore of the house. I wanted to make improvements, but first needed to make structural, insulating and moisture mitigation improvements. Evergreen was professional and competent in taking on a complex project of not only encapsulation and insulation of basement and crawlspace, but completed needed improvements to the structural integrity of the wood floor platform above a crawlspace and brought in a concrete contractor to pour where there was once a rotting, tiered wood platform - replacing that area with a more functional and tight tiered concrete area.

Duane B.

East Boothbay

This team of individuals was professional at all times. They set up barriers that kept the dust at a minimum. They conducted an air flow audit and cut the draft circulation from the outside in half by sealing cracks. They hauled out the old insulation and replaced it with blown in insulation with an R - 60 Value. They also did the rebate paperwork so that I could get my $1500.00 rebate from the state of Maine. I highly recommend Evergreen Home Performance!

Daniel B.

Rockland

Working with Brian and with Nate and the rest of the crew was a pleasure. They made everything very easy and understandable. This was a major renovation and they were always at the ready with a lot of information. We had an extensive renovation on the basement which was a dirt basement and it came out beautifully. We can already tell from all of the insulation work what a difference it's made in sound and temperature. Brian worked with me on the rebates that are available when you do this kind of work. I would highly recommend this company to…

Valerie L.

Rockland

A thorough inspection of our (older) house and its energy needs. Competent and personable work crew.

Jacob Watson

The Evergreen team was amazing from initial assessment and planning to the crew that came to complete the work. Our basement encapsulation is the best money we've spent on our house by far. The work was thorough and high quality. And what a wonderful group of people to work with. I highly recommend Evergreen!

Martha Bracy

Evergreen listened and produced a thoughtful evaluation, proposal and comprehensive plan for our attic and basement. They exhibited excellent workmanship, teamwork, and came back as planned after the completion of the job to test the outcomes. Their overall performance as insulation and home improvement contractors is truly outstanding and we highly recommend them.

Susan S.

Saco

Awesome company. It was a few years ago that they did the audit and then we commissioned them to do the work. We subsequently sold our house and moved to South Africa, but their level of service and expertise will live on.

Odette Brown

Led by Brian Robinson, the Evergreen Home Performance team just completed an insulation refit at my home. It was truly a great experience from start to finish, a period of time that was a fraction of the time that I originally anticipated due to the team's unbelievable work habits and professional knowledge of their tasks. As impressive were the communication skills and friendliness of each and every member of the team.

Anne W.

Rockport

I have always been impressed by the high level of service, quality of work, and excellent follow-through provided by Evergreen Home Performance in the three projects that they completed at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm over the past several years.

Paul D.

Wells

Really great experience from start to finish with Evergreen. They helped us prioritize what needed to be completed first, and has made a significant difference in our hearing costs already. Plus they were really friendly and considerate to work with!

Amy W.

Kennebunk

I cannot say enough great things about working with Evergreen Home Performance. Everything including the initial consultation, the fabulous work crew, the office support and the final resolution was handled in a caring and professional manner. My only regret is that I did not know about them earlier. I enthusiastically recommend Evergreen to anyone with concerns about home energy use.

Darlene R

Bath

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