Steve McDougal

Vice President, Marketing and Business Development

3Degrees’ co-founder and vice president of marketing and business development, Steve leads the firm’s Green Power and Carbon Balancing Services group and supervises its marketing efforts across the U.S.

Steve also serves as 3Degrees’ green power and carbon balancing champion, educating audiences ranging from participants in the Chicago Green Power Challenge, LEED green building professionals, and members of the National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM) on the value of RECs and carbon offsets.

In 2007, Steve led the formation of 3Degrees, a spin-off of 3 Phases Energy. Before this, Steve served from 2003 to 2006 as director of business development at 3 Phases Energy. During this time, Steve led national direct sales and marketing efforts to large Fortune 500 corporations, successfully adding many household name brand companies to the firm’s list of green power customers.

Steve was honored at the 10th National Green Power Marketing Conference in 2005, when he accepted the Green Power Beacon Award in recognition of his team’s ground-breaking work building large-scale corporate demand for green energy in the U.S.

Prior to his work at 3Degrees and 3 Phases, Steve directed business development at CNET Networks, one of the leading online resources for technology news and product reviews. At CNET, Steve restructured the company’s sales program and developed new products related to the company’s acquisition of ZDNET.

Steve’s professional experience also includes product development consulting work for Fortune 500 corporations, and management of business development at a venture-funded software company.

A native of Chicago, Steve has a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Colorado College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.