
Faculty and Advisors


Jessica C. Adelman
Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Mars Wrigley North America
Said Al-Hallaj
CEO and co-founder at All Cell Technologies; Research Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago
Craig Arnold
MSES Career Coach; Sustainability Consultant, TASA Analytics, LLC
Dr. Amanda M. Bachmann
Nuclear Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory
Achal Bassamboo
Charles E. Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences Professor of Operations at Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s Kellogg School of Management
Kathia Benitez
MSES Career Coach; Director, Sustainability, Compliance, Health & Safety at Discover Financial Services
Alaina Bookstein
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development at GridCARE
Holly Benz
Clinical Professor & Director of the Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability (MSES)
Tom Biegala
Founding Partner at Bison Ventures
Jessica Bollhoefer
MSES Career Coach; Global Lead for Carbon + Energy, Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) at Google

Patrick Boyle
Director of Sustainability at Reyes Holdings
Meghan Busse
Associate Professor of Strategy at Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s Kellogg School of Management
Jenny Carney
Vice President of Sustainability, Energy, and Climate Change at WSP
Sailesh Chutani
Fellow at Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
David Donnan
Investor and Partner (Emeritus) at Kearney
Mark Feasel
Founder and Principal Consultant at VisRete
Adrian Gershom
Principal at Offshoot Consulting; Advisory Board at B Local Illinois
Alison Gilbert
Originations Lead - Specialized and Asset Finance at Macquarie Group
Erin Grossi
at TRC Companies
Dan Hahn
Partner, Global Energy Providers Practice Lead at Guidehouse
Karin Hamel
MSES Career Coach; President and CEO - Sustainable Industries & Buildings at Veolia North America
Jonathan Hargrove
Chief Revenue Officer at RPower
Nancy Himmelfarb
MSES Career Coach; Principal at Himmelfarb Sustainability Consulting
Lynne Kiesling
Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Pritzker's Center on Law, Business, and Economics; Research Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver
Kristen King
MSES Career Coach; Director of Sustainability at James Hardie
Michael Legatt
CEO and Founder at ResilientGrid
Mark Lillie
Former Chief Counsel at the Federal Highway Administration; Former Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Jacob Madsen
MSES Career Coach; Senior Director, Climate Solutions at Persefoni
Sarene Marshall
Chief Sustainability Officer at Galway Sustainable Capital
Chris Moscardelli
Chief Financial Officer at SOO Green
Bala Nagarajan
MSES Career Coach; Managing Director, Energy at S2G Ventures
Tunde Onitiri
Senior Advisor, Emerging Markets Investments
Jane Park
MSES Career Coach; Founder and CEO at Seneca Point Strategies
Natalie Persky
MSES Career Coach; Associate Director of Environmental Sustainability at AbbVie
Alex Polzin
Clinical Assistant Professor & Deputy Director of the Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability (MSES)
Mark Pruitt
Principal at The Power Bureau, LLC
Matt Roling
MSES Career Coach; Clinical Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Abrams Climate Academy at Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s Kellogg School of Management
Grace Rumford
MSES Career Coach; Senior Originator at Constellation
Brad Sageman
MSES Academic Director, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Âé¶¹´«Ã½
Tyler Strom
Managing Director at Illinois Agri-Food Alliance (ILAFA)
Sarah Thuo
Partner/Principal, Supply Chain at EY-Parthenon
Brian Tolliver
CEO and Founder at Banyon Power
Klaus Weber
Professor of Management & Organizations at Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s Kellogg School of Management
Joseph Wemhoff
Adjunct Instructor of Finance at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business
Chet White
MSES Career Coach; Vice President of Operations & Asset Management at Reactivate
Mark Witte
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Instruction in Economics at Âé¶¹´«Ã½