Biography EMA was founded in 1996 by Blanca Mercado Di Giacomo. Blanca was born and raised in Caguas, Puerto Rico, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Lesley College (1995) in Business Management. Her thesis earned a special Award of Excellence from the School of Management. Blanca directs all aspects of the business, with a focus on growing the company, especially the Building Certification & Benchmarking programs using the ENERGY STAR portfolio manager platform. Blanca is also deeply involved in community and charity events. Blanca's husband, Steve Di Giacomo, P.E. , CEM, is the Principal Engineer and is a Board Certified Registered Professional Engineer licensed throughout MA, RI, PA, NJ and DE as well as a Nationally Certified Energy Manager. Steve has logged over thirty years of specialized Energy Engineering HVAC auditing, analysis, design, commissioning and facility operations experience with industrial, research, hospital, chemical, pharmaceutical and commercial facilities at both the site and corporate levels. He is also a guest lecturer to the senior class at Wentworth Institute of Technology on Energy Management Techniques. More recently, Mr. Di Giacomo has earned IAQ ceu credits at the Harvard School of Public Health and has authored technical papers on CO2 based demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) in both Engineered Systems Magazine and the Journal of Energy Engineering.
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