Meet Our Team

 Carl Priest has over 35 years’ experience in the heating and cooling business. Carl is the owner and founder of Northern Comfort Heating and Cooling Inc. which began in 1985. Carl is a registered plumber and electrician and was a model maker with General Motors for over 20 years. He is married to Peggy and they have seven grown children together ranging from 40 to 23 years old. Carl volunteers with Peggy in a marriage ministry called United Marriage Encounter.  Carl & Peggy are one of the Team Couples who teach a tool for commincation on UME Weekends throughout the US.  They serve together in the local UME Community as the Executive Couple and are the Chaircouple in the Growth & Expansion Committee. Carl also serves as an elder at their local church – Oasis Christian Fellowship.

Peggy Priest has been with Northern Comfort for over ten years, but ‘officially’ joined 5 years ago in April 2017. Peggy is the Chief Operations Officer with Northern and assisted going paperless with new software programs, creating and updating new procedures, and increasing revenue in the process. Peggy has her BS in Business/Finance and is a certified PMP. She uses her skill set to keep the back end of the office running as Carl works in the field. In her spare time, Peggy voluteers with Carl in United Marriage Encounter and in her spare time writes a blog and is currently completing her second book.

Ann Marie Porretta is the Northern Comforts Amazing Office Manager.  Her skillset has brought the team to the next level! She has assisted in Operations, Administrative, and Billing positions within many different industries and brings all those skills to the table at Northern. Ann Marie is the glue that holds our Office together!!

Ann Marie has two daughters; Carli who is a Teacher’s Aide, and Rachel who is a Nanny.  Her dog Bentley keeps them on their toes.  When Ann Marie is not creating new ideas and processes at work, she enjoys vegetable gardening, working outdoors and researching people/ancestry.  A few friends call her Nancy Drew and call when they need assistance. Due to her sleuth skills Ann Marie discovered and documented her paternal side back 7 generations and her maternal side 6 generations!

Tim Cole just celebrated his 3rd year anniversary at Northern Comfort in July 2022. He assists Carl with all types of Installations when needed. Before Northern Comfort, Tim worked at Xerox for 38 years as a Senior Electrical Engineer with printers and copiers. Tim has two sons, John, who is a manager for a local fence distributor, and Sean who is about to graduate as a nurse practitioner in NY. Tim’s hobbies are working on vehicles and spoiling his three puppies.

When Conner is not boots on the ground learning with the Northern team, he plays soccer and track, long board, rides bikes and attends church with his family, He has one brother, two loving parents, and two puppies at home to greet him after a hard days work – Kayleigh and Bently.