Kathy Loftus

Loftus coordinates sustainability programs, including overall Company impact reporting, as well as directs engineering, energy management and maintenance best practices and green building and strategic energy procurement efforts for Whole Foods Market and has been in this role for six years. She sits on the Steering Committee for the U.S. DOE’s Commercial Buildings Energy Alliance and coordinates EPA Program partnerships. In addition to roles as Director of Business Development for a start-up energy technology firm and roles at an electric utility company, Loftus also spent eight years as Director of Energy & Environmental Management for Shaw's Supermarkets and was a past chairperson of FMI’s Energy & Technical Services Committee. She was a participant on the 2005 New England Roundtable on Federal Renewable Energy Policy and is a participant currently on the State Energy Efficiency Action Network’s Utility Motivation Working Group. Loftus has also served as an advisor for the Grocery sector for the USGBC’s LEED program. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She recently served eight years on the Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and now serves on the State’s Large Scale Retail Development Solar, Energy Efficiency & Smart Buildings Committees and is appointed to her town’s Renewable Energy Commission. She is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Clean Air-Cool Planet.