Advisory Board
G. Sandy Diehl, III, Chairman – American Architectural Foundation
Mr. Diehl started SD Global Advisors, following a 25-year career with United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), where he served as the Vice President for Integrated Building Solutions and its Otis Elevator business unit, where he served as the Senior Vice President. SD Global Advisors specializes in the building industry and sustainable products business segments. Prior to working at UTC and Otis, Mr. Diehl worked for General Electric, Air Products and Chemicals, and Patient Technology, a healthcare startup company.
Mr. Diehl currently serves as Chairman of the American Architectural Foundation in Washington DC, and is President of the Board of Trustees of the Church of St. Simon-by-the-Sea in New Jersey. He also serves on the board of ACE/Mento and on the Advisory Board of the USGBC’s Center for Green Schools. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
David Goodtree, Co-Organizer of the Symposium on Water Innovation in Massachusetts, and Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Water Innovation Mission to Israel
Mr. Goodtree is a frequent speaker on the innovation economy, at recent events organized by TEDxBoston, E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs, the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Brandeis Global Trade Summit, New England Israel Business Council, the Small Business Association of New England, and the World Class Cities Partnership.
Previously, Mr. Goodtree was VP Marketing with Akamai Technologies from the company’s pre-commercial launch through IPO, and also served as Group Director of Forrester Research, providing market research and strategic advice in telecommunications, networking, and computing. Mr. Goodtree is an active community volunteer working with non-profits and promoting the Massachusetts economy through local innovation and global export. Mr. Goodtree is an active angel investor and board advisor in technology.
Prof. Nalin Kulatilaka, Co-Founder – Boston University
Professor Kulatilaka is a Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management and Professor of Finance in the School of Management at Boston University. He serves as the research director of Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy. He is an expert in the role of financial markets in directing investments to clean energy technologies, regularly advising corporations and international organizations on a variety of issues relating to financial valuation and technology strategy.
Professor Kulatilaka has been a feature speaker at international conferences, was the co-founder of Glaze Creek Partners LLC and International Internet Services and serves on the board of several firms. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, a Master’s degree in Decision and Control Engineering from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prof. Sanjay Sarma – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Sarma teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and serves as the Director, MIT/SUTD Collaboration Office. Professor Sarma Co-founded The Auto-ID Center at MIT, which developed many of the technical concepts and standards prevalent in the RFID industry today. Professor Sarma is a frequent industry speaker and serves on the Board of Governors of EPC Global.
He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair at MIT, the Ferry Award, the Den Hartog Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keenan Award for innovations in undergraduate education and the New England Business and Technology Award. He Graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur with his B Tech, received his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and earned his Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Gregory Rueger, Senior Vice President, Retired – Pacific Gas & Electric
Mr. Rueger is a founding owner of HelioFocus Ltd. He has extensive experience in the planning, development and operation of power generating plants and transmission systems. Mr. Rueger enjoyed a 33 year career with Pacific Gas and Electric Company, serving as a senior officer and general manager over various business units for the last 17 years of his career. He retired as Senior Vice President Generation and Chief Nuclear Officer.
Mr. Rueger served as Chairman of both the Environmental and Nuclear Energy research advisory councils of the Electric Power Research Institute and as Chairman of the joint US Department of Energy and Nuclear Industry research advisory committee. He received his BS, Masters in Electrical Engineering and MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and holds professional registration in the State of California as both an Electrical and Control Systems Engineer.
Douglas I. Foy, CEO Serrafix a strategic consulting firm focused on environmental and energy issues.
Prior to launching Serrafix in 2006, Foy served as the first Secretary of Commonwealth Development in the administration of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In leading this “super-Secretariat”, Foy oversaw the agencies of Transportation, Housing, Environment, and Energy, with combined annual capital budgets of $5 billion, operating budgets of $500 million, and a total workforce of more than 11,000.
Before his service in the Romney administration, Foy served for 25 years as the President and CEO of the Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s premier environmental advocacy organization. Among its hundreds of prominent cases, CLF lawsuits forced the cleanup of Boston Harbor, prevented offshore oil drilling on the prime fishing grounds of Georges Bank, banned off-road vehicles from the beaches and dunes of the Cape Cod National Seashore, prevented the construction of the Seabrook 2 nuclear power plant, and dramatically reduced childhood lead poisoning throughout the region. CLF had offices in all six New England states.
Foy currently serves on the corporate boards of Ameresco (NYSE), Acumentrics (fuel cells), GreenerU (college and university climate programs), and RainBank (rainwater harvesting); the non-profit boards of the Ocean Genome Legacy Foundation, Pioneer Institute, and Conservation Law Foundation; and the National Transportation Policy Project of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Foy also serves as a Legal Advisor to the nonprofit Fuel Freedom Foundation.
In 1992 President George H.W. Bush recognized Foy’s work on energy efficiency with the President’s Environmental and Conservation Challenge Award, the country’s highest conservation award. In 2006, Foy was named the recipient of the national Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the nation’s memorial to President Wilson. Foy also received from Princeton University, his Alma mater, its highest honor bestowed on a graduate, the Woodrow Wilson award, for his public interest achievements. In 2009, the Queen of England bestowed on Foy the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Mr. Foy, a member of the 1968 USA Olympic Rowing Team and the 1969 USA National Rowing Team, graduated from Princeton University as a University Scholar in engineering and physics, attended Cambridge University in England as a Churchill Scholar in geophysics, and graduated from Harvard Law School.