Buonicore Partners

Buonicore Partners

Buonicore Partners (BP) was founded in 2007 by Anthony J. Buonicore and Peter L. Cashman to identify investment opportunities in the building energy efficiency market. The following year, BP launched the daily news service, Building Energy Performance Assessment News, which has since become the leading source for building energy efficiency information in the commercial real estate industry. With almost a century of combined experience in the energy and environmental markets, from company start-up to financing to operational improvement to revenue enhancement to M&A, the partners in BP now offer this expertise on a consultancy basis. BP services are uniquely designed to assist businesses that serve, or plan to serve, the building energy efficiency market, to develop the expertise, tools and strategies for current and future success in this fast growing industry.

Experience

Buonicore Partners has provided strategic advice to companies serving various aspects of energy and environmental services including:

Consulting and engineering companies (such as Terracon, PSI, EMG, S&ME & Japan Real Estate Institute); Manufacturers (such as Enerlume, Seldera &Transformative Wave Technologies); Professional Associations (such as the Environmental Bankers Association); Information service companies (such as Sustainable Real Estate Solutions and Business Process Systems); Government entities (EPA and DOE).

In addition to providing advice to many financial institutions, BP has identified and sourced funding for multiple enterprises working with venture capital firms such as Bain Capital, Trident Capital, Connecticut Innovations and others.

Anthony J. Buonicore, P.E.
Managing Partner

Anthony serves as the Chairman of the National ASTM Task Group that developed the E2797-11, Building Energy Performance Assessment Standard. He co-chaired the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Sub-group of the Zero Energy Commercial Buildings Consortium and authors the Building Energy Performance Assessment Blog.

He established and chaired the A&WMA Energy-Environmental Interactions Technical Committee; is past president of AWMA and served as National Chairman of the First AIChE Conference on Energy and Environmental Interactions. He conducts nationwide courses on the use of Phase I & II audits. The author of multiple whitepapers and webinars on building environmental and energy performance issues, he is routinely employed as an expert witness on environmental issues associated with commercial real estate.

Anthony was co-founder of BCA Services, an environmental consulting company, Chemrox, Inc., a specialty pollution control equipment manufacturer and was a founder Environmental Data Resources, serving successively as president, CEO, and Chairman. For more information refer to: Anthony J. Buonicore, P.E.

Peter L. Cashman
Managing Partner

Peter’s 40+ year career has included government service at both the state and federal level. In Connecticut he served as the State Senator leading the charge for the creation the CT Environmental Protection Agency. Later, as Lt. Governor, he created the CT River Estuary authority to preserve and protect the lower Connecticut River valley. This groundbreaking project eliminated the use of eminent domain procedures supplanting them with voluntary purchases of property easements from Middletown to Old Lyme. His government career also included service as director US EPA Office of Regional Operations with a mandate from the Administrator to improve the efficiency of all Regional Offices.

A serial entrepreneur, he served as founder and CEO of Environmental Data Resources, Inc., raising over $20 million and eventually leading its investors to a successful exit in 1999. Since leaving EDR he has co-founded or invested in multiple startup companies including Buonicore Partners and Building Energy Performance Assessment News. In addition he has launched the highly successful Hawkeye Employers Candidate Sourcing service which is designed to quickly and inexpensively identify candidates for open positions at energy and environmental companies. For more information refer to: Peter L. Cashman

James R. Bleecker
Associate

In a career spanning 25 years Jim has served as a consultant, developer and CFO. His technical work has included coding and implementing software, database consulting and financial management programs. His most recent experience includes the development of various financial analysis modeling applications. He has also authored custom accounting integration applications, forecasting models, sales and marketing analysis tools and specialized reporting systems. Jim holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School.

Bruce R. Thompson, P.E.
Associate

Bruce is a former Diplomat to the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and is a Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and prior member of the ASME Power Piping Code Committee B31.1. He has taught mechanical engineering subjects at the Universities of Hartford and New Haven. Bruce holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut and a M. S. degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Bridgeport.