Power Efficiency’s management team is comprised of professionals with decades of experience in entrepreneurial companies, motor controls and automation, finance and law.

Steven Strasser
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Prior to becoming the Company’s CEO in October 2004, Mr. Strasser was the Managing Director, founder and majority owner of Summit Energy Ventures LLC (“Summit”), the largest shareholder in Power Efficiency Corporation. Summit is a private equity firm focused on investments in companies with energy efficiency technologies. At Summit, Mr. Strasser spent four years, from 2001-2005, evaluating and investing in energy technology companies and serving on the boards of portfolio companies. Mr. Strasser has been a director since August 2002.

From 1984 through 2000, Mr. Strasser was the founder and CEO of Northwest Power Enterprises. Over its seventeen-year history, Northwest Power Enterprises and its predecessor companies were involved in multiple aspects of the energy development business.

Mr. Strasser received law degrees from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Alan Taylor
Senior Vice President of Business Development, Vertical Transportation

Prior to joining Power Efficiency Corporation, Mr. Taylor was an associate at HKA Elevator Consulting Inc. and Principal at Barker Mohandas LLC -  both vertical transportation consulting companies. Prior to his work in the consulting field, Alan held numerous positions in the elevator/escalator industry – Vice President International Technical Services (ITS) China, at ThyssenKrupp Elevator (TKE), at which his responsibilities included managing day-to-day operations of newly created ITS, and developing a highly trained field engineering staff to successfully support the TKE Asian Maintenance staff. Previous positions Mr. Taylor has held were Chief Technology / Production Officer for a TKE joint venture in Seoul Korea, Operations Manager / Regional Trainer and various other positions.

Mr. Taylor has over 30 years of professional experience in the Elevator and Escalator industry and has traveled for work to over 30 countries, including South Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Thailand.

Mr. Taylor earned his post graduate studies in Lift Engineering at Northampton University in England and is presently writing his dissertation for his Masters of Science in Lift Engineering. 

Brian Chan
Vice President of Finance

Before joining Power Efficiency Corporation in 2005, Mr. Chan was an accountant at Johnson Jacobson Wilcox, a Las Vegas CPA firm specializing in privately held construction and real estate companies. Prior to Johnson Jacobson Wilcox, Mr. Chan was a staff accountant at Kafoury, Armstrong and Company, a Las Vegas CPA firm that mainly serviced non-profit and governmental entities. Mr. Chan began his career with Smith, Lange and Phillips, a prominent San Francisco CPA firm, where he worked with a variety of small business and high net worth individuals.

Mr. Chan is a licensed CPA in California (inactive), and has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from U.C. Santa Barbara.