Our Team

Managing Partners

Four industry executives – Tom Kalup, Mark Mellana, Mike Salmon and Enzo Zoratto – recognized the growing need of owners to decarbonize and reposition their generation and infrastructure assets and founded DECARB to specifically address that need. As recognized experts, each with over 30 years of experience, they have led significant and well-known companies in the fields of power generation, environmental management, engineering and construction, and project finance in the United States and internationally. They are known for their ability to solve complex problems by applying rational and sometimes contrarian strategies working within all levels of owner organizations to create value.

Thomas J. Kalup
Thomas J. Kalup
Managing Partner
Mark Mellana
Managing Partner
Michael C. Salmon
Managing Partner
Enzo M. Zoratto, P.E.
Enzo M. Zoratto, P.E.
Managing Partner

Subject Matter Experts

Supporting the company is a team of dedicated executives that have had long-standing relationships with Tom, Mark, Mike and Enzo and embrace the same vision of the market and how they can contribute to a client’s decarbonization needs. Each in their own right brings a deep understanding of their subject matter and have completed some of the most complex projects and transactions in the industry.

Anthony Hurley
Transmission & Distribution Operations SME
Dr. David Boyd
Regulatory Affairs
Trent J. Markell, P.E.
Trent J. Markell, P.E.
Independent Engineering and Due Diligence
Mr. Tom Pezze
Tom Pezze
Plant Operations
Cutis B. Toll, Esq.
Curtis B. Toll, Esq.
Distressed Asset Transfer
Shawn H. Veltman, PhD, PE, BCEE
Shawn H. Veltman, PhD, PE, BCEE
Biomass to Energy
Claudio Vissa, P.E.
Hydroelectric Design, Construction & Operation
Joseph G. Yeasted, PhD, PE
Joseph G. Yeasted, PhD, PE
Environmental Closure

Strategic Advisors

Our Strategic Advisors bring us their expertise and advice on complex transition and transactional issues in support of our Mission. Considered leaders in the industry, they have worked with us in the past and have specific expertise in financial transaction structuring, asset transition and closure and ESG strategy development.

Steven Gottlieb
Strategic Communications and Public Outreach