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Management Team

Jonathan Naimon is a co-founder and president of Light Green Advisors. Prior to founding LGA, Mr. Naimon was a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management where he served as a consultant to fund groups developing “responsible” investment products at in Norway Sweden and Switzerland.  Mr. Naimon was the architect of the US Investor Responsibility Research Center’s corporate environmental benchmarking system, and has been a frequent speaker on “best of class” investing in the US and the Europe.   He has held economic analysis positions with Asea Brown Boveri Environmental Services, ICF-Kaiser, and the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. He has been a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University and holds degrees in environmental management and molecular biology from the University of North Carolina and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John L. Cusack is a managing director and serves as chief sustainability officer for LGA. Mr. Cusack brings a wealth of experience from his tenure as president of Gifford Park Associates, a US-based management firm with 20 years of experience in the environmental finance, energy, environmental technology and risk management areas. Mr. Cusack was previously CEO of Innovest, a director of the World Environment Center, and has held senior positions with Asea Brown Boveri, and several environmental technology companies.

Mark Sten is a co-founder and a member of the Investment Committee at LGA.  Prior to joining LGA, Mr. Sten was a senior partner at as DDB Needham, a global public affairs firm, and the Hartman Group, a leading business consultancy for the healthy living and organic foods industries.  He has also held executive positions at Raytheon, Computron, and Wang Laboratories. Mr. Sten taught the US’s first MBA course on business strategy and the environment at the University of California at Irvine School of Management in 1990. He has an MA in Communications from the University of Southern California and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business.

Eric Bell is Chief Information Officer and has worked for Light Green Advisors since its inception. Mr. Bell is responsible for algorithm enhancement, management of LGA’s proprietary software tools and integration of outside data sources with these tools, trading system interfaces, and enterprise information technology. Mr. Bell has over 20 years of programming and data analysis experience and has held senior technical positions with ATT Wireless and the University of Washington. Mr. Bell has an MBA and a Mathematics degree from the University of Washington.

Christopher Murphy is a managing director for public affairs with LGA. Prior to LGA, Mr. Murphy has held senior trade finance and environmental policy positions with the Embassy of Canada, the Embassy of France, the National Wildlife Federation Corporate Conservation Council, and Bonner Associates, a DC public affairs firm. Mr. Murphy is the author of The Profitable Correlation, an LGA paper cited by CalPERS and CalSTRS in their decision to begin an environmental investment program in public equity area.

Mr. Murphy has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from the University of San Diego.

Michael V. DeFelice is a managing director for real estate for LGA. Mr. DeFelice brings a wealth of experience from his experience leading investment banking, technology and real estate teams at Deutsch Bank North America, Chase and Merrill over the last 15 years. Mr. DeFelice has a law degree from the University of Chicago. DeFelice is on the board of overseers for the engineering school at Dartmouth College, where he has an electrical engineering degree.

Tom Lord is managing director for commodities and futures for LGA. Prior to LGA, Mr. Lord was founding principal of Volatility Managers, an internationally recognized expert resource on hedging commodity volatility in energy and electricity markets. Mr. Lord has also been an expert witness in electric utility rate setting cases. Mr. Lord has previously held senior positions with responsibility for managing commodity price volatility and risk with Morgan Stanley and BP North America.

Mr. Lord has degrees in mechanical engineering and political science from Cornell University, and a J.D. from the University of Denver.
 

Advisory Board

LGA freely draws upon the information and wisdom of its advisory panel members, several of whom have been affiliated with the firm or its founders since before its inception in 1998.

Glenn Anderson is a senior vice president with EFG Investment Bank, the Swedish subsidiary of the Swiss EFG Bank Group. Mr. Anderson has previously held marketing, trading, futures, and derivatives positions with Investment Banking Partners, Den Norske Credit Bank, Boliden, Conti Commodity and Merrill in Stockholm, Hamburg, and New York.

Dan Grimm is a senior Vice President for Doughty Hanson PLC (a UK-based private equity firm) and was formerly the Washington state treasurer.

J. Michael McCloskey is a director of the Sierra Club Foundation and is chairman emeritus of the Sierra Club. He was formerly its executive director and chairman.

Ken McCready, K.F. McCready Associates & former CEO, TransAlta and founding member, Business Council for Sustainable Development. Mr. McCready is widely regarded as one of the first utility executives in the world to commit his company to acting to mitigate climate change.

Jack Jolley, Senior Strategic Advisor Prior to joining LGA, Jack was a cofounder of Quellos, an alternative asset management firm based in Seattle that was acquired by Blackrock in 2007. Mr. Jolley has held fixed income trading and management positions at several leading Wall Street firms and served as treasurer of Microsoft in the 1990s. Jack is an avid runner, cyclist, and swimmer, and has a degree in business Administration from the University of Washington. He is also a senior fixed income advisor to Filament, a wealth management firm.