Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Steven Paul Coté is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Weatherization Corporation (NWC). In his role, he provides entrepreneurial leadership, innovation and over 25 years of experience.  He has created the NWC organization to support high-impact energy efficiency programs including the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP).  The mission of NWC is to support energy initiatives to benefit all Americans.  NWC specializes in the implementation of energy programs, making them efficient while enhancing stakeholder value.  Mr. Coté is fast becoming a national leader in energy efficiencies and implementation.

Prior federal agency experience includes proposing and writing specifications for unique solutions in disaster recovery to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  These solutions included high-efficiency energy components for temporary and permanent emergency housing.  Mr. Coté also worked with United States Access Board - A Federal Agency Committed to Accessible Design, to insure accessibility for people with disabilities in these housing solutions.

Chairman

Information Advisor

Senior Project Manager

Secretary/Treasurer

After Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Coté assisted recovery efforts in Louisiana and worked with the Clinton Foundation, Climate Change Initiative.  He designed and provided a environmentally friendly buildings for a demonstration project that included high-performance energy efficient buildings used as classrooms and housing.  He donated a building to the city of New Orleans and worked with Mayor Ray Nagin and Dr. Edward Blakely, the recovery chief.  At a FEMA group site Mr. Coté worked with Save the Children and grass-roots nonprofit organizations supporting community centered activities for young disaster victims.  Additionally, he wrote grant requests to the TANF/Louisiana Family Recovery Corps’s Summer Camp program, to the Emeril Lagasse Foundation, the Greater New Orleans (GNO) After School Partnership, and the United Way. These grants were approved and provided young inner city disaster victims with physical activities in a structured environment.

Mr. Coté has worked with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Electric Utilities under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments to the Acid Rain Program, Title IV, which created legislation for an innovative sulfur dioxide (S02) allowance trading component to reduce emissions.  As the agent of one the nation’s largest energy producers, he served in compliance planning for two dozen utilities, and testified as an expert witness at the Public Utility Commission hearings on market based solutions.  He served as senior policy advisor to the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX).

Working with the U.S. Department of State on The Commercial & Humanitarian Initiative, Mr. Coté helped children trapped in refugee camps throughout Southeast Asia.  These children could not go home safely because of geopolitical issues.  He, with others, was instrumental in accelerating the return of the remains of American service personnel missing from the Vietnam War.  Mr. Coté received acknowledgment from President Reagan and participated the National League of Families of Prisoners and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia annual conferences.

Mr. Coté's executive protection expertise includes designing and marketing armored cars and architectural armored systems unitizing advanced light-weight ballistic materials.  He was a counter- terrorist driving instructor and trained drivers in the Middle East, Fortune 500 executives, undercover agents and diplomats.

On Good Morning America, Mr. Coté demonstrated high speed defensive driving and vehicle safety. He was personally interviewed by Leeza Gibbons about executive protection.  He has been widely cited in trade journals and broadcast media related to counter-terrorism, allowance training and energy efficiency building science.