About Us
Club Mission
“The Energy & Environment Club's mission is to bring the Sloan and MIT communities closer to current trends, technologies, and careers in Energy and Environmental Management. Sensitive to the natural interplay between Energy and the Environment, we look to encourage leadership in the energy sector and excellence in both direct and indirect environmental stewardship.”
Co-Presidents:
Dan Cahan
Dan is a second year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to Sloan, Dan worked at L.E.K. Consulting, a global strategy and management consulting firm. Dan has a broad interest in finding sustainable ways for the world to meet its growing energy needs through increased efficiency and technologies ranging from solar to biofuels to cleaner coal. He spent his summer as an intern with @Ventures, a early stage cleantech venture capital firm.
Ted Carstensen
Ted is a second year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to Sloan, Ted was a Consultant at Vantage Partners, a negotiation and relationship management consulting firm in Boston. Ted has a strong interest in clean technology and renewable energy, specifically wind, solar, and biofuels. He spent this past summer as an intern in the Renewables group at GE Energy.
Ilissa Schild
Ilissa is a second year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management with a background in energy and mechanical engineering. Before coming to Sloan, she worked at GE Global Research, where she conducted extensive research in advanced propulsion and clean coal. Ilissa is very interested in practical green and sustainable solutions and spent her summer in NYC at GreenOrder, a management consulting firm specializing in the alignment of sustainability and profitability. Ilissa is also the Director of Marketing for the 2009 MIT Energy Conference: Accelerating Change in Global Energy.
E&E Executive Committee:
Membership: Stacey DeFino
Stacey is a 2nd year Sloan student; prior to Sloan, she was energy policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Michael Burgess of Texas, with a focus on unconventional natural gas and biodiesel. Stacey is also an active member of the MIT Energy Club and founded the MIT Energy Club Oil & Gas Sub-Community, a multidisciplinary, institute-wide group focusing on the petroleum industry. Over the summer, Stacey interned for ExxonMobil’s Upstream Controller’s Office in Doha, Qatar and in January 2008, she completed an internship with Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), where she helped manage part of the CERA Week events in Houston.
Flex Fuel: Amy Fazen
Amy is a second year MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to Sloan, Amy worked at the TJX Companies in corporate finance and operations. Amy's experiences also include helping to start the strategy consulting firm of Altman Vilandrie & Company as well as two years at the strategy consulting firm CSMG. Amy’s main focus is scalable energy solutions to the climate change problem – both new approaches to traditional energy sources and alternative energy as well as efficiency improvements. During January 2008, she interned at Cambridge Energy Research Associates and this past summer, she interned at A123 Systems.
Special Events: Meredith Fisher
Entrepreneurship: Andy Hider
Andy is focusing on entrepreneurship in energy while at MIT Sloan. Andy has spent six years in product design and development where he most recently led the design of intelligence devices for various government agencies in Washington D.C. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Business Management from Syracuse University.
Sustainability & AdMIT Liaison: Malaika Thorne
Malaika is a second year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Her work experiences include technical project management for a start-up software company, co-founding a 501c3, and business development for an ecological center in Mexico. Last summer, she collaborated with field experts to develop an economic model for five 1GW offshore wind power plants. She also reviewed energy storage and smart grid technologies as an intern for the Ocean Energy Institute. Her class project for Entrepreneurship Lab included determining the market strategy for Firefly Energy, a next generation carbon graphite foam battery. Malaika’s interests are in wind power, project finance for alternative energy technologies, and sustainable business practices. She is active in the MIT Energy Club Wind Power Group, Sustainability@MIT, and Net Impact.
European Energy Attache & Treks: Payson Tucker
Payson is a second year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to Sloan, Payson worked in insurance brokerage for Marsh McLennan and Jardine Lloyd Thompson focusing on the upstream oil & gas sector. He spent his last summer as an intern for Black Stone Minerals Company LP in Houston, TX valuing potential oil & gas mineral interest and working interest acquisitions. He is currently on exchange at IESE business school in Barcelona, Spain.
Environment: Derek Warnick
Derek is a second year MBA at MIT Sloan. Prior to coming back to school, Derek worked as a Technical Consultant for the World Bank, focusing on assisting companies in emerging markets with their US market entry. Derek is focused on sustainability through environmental technology, which includes a LED lighting project he is currently working on in the E51 building of Sloan. Over January 2008, he worked on a Department of Defense project to conserve energy at strategic military installations in Iraq and over this last summer he interned at EnerNOC in their new Energy Efficiency department doing business development.