Dr. Louis Albright
Controlled Environment Agriculture Expert

Dr. Louis Albright has had an extensive career in research and teaching related to optimized environmental control and energy management in agricultural buildings, with a focus for the past twenty-five years on commercial greenhouses and plant growth chambers.  He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University and is the current director of Cornell’s Controlled Environment Agriculture program.  His work has produced more than two hundred papers and publications, two textbooks and three U.S. patents on computer algorithms for daily light integral control with optimizing the combination of photosynthetic light and carbon dioxide concentration for computerized greenhouse crop production.  He has bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from Cornell University and, before joining the Cornell faculty, was on the faculty of the University of California, Davis.

Caroline Angoorly
Strategic Advisor

Caroline Angoorly is a senior energy and environmental industry executive with over 20 years of domestic and international experience in business-building, operations, project and asset management, investment, project finance and M&A.  Her expertise lies in the energy and environmental sectors, especially power markets and projects across generating technologies (including fossil and renewables) and clean tech, as well as environmental instruments, markets, regulation and policy.  Caroline leads GreenTao LLC, a specialized business growth, project development, financing and execution firm with a central focus on energy and environmental businesses and opportunities, including those utilizing advanced technologies.  She provides integrated business, operations, transaction and project advice, strategies and implementation to companies in the energy and resources sectors – in particular power and fuels and including energy and environmental commodities.  Caroline’s previous appointments include Head of Environmental Markets – North America for J.P. Morgan, SVP & Head of Development, Northeast and VP, Environmental & New Business at NRG Energy, VP & General Counsel at Enel North America, CFO of Line56Media, Director of Sorbent Technologies and a Partner in the Global Project Finance Group at Milbank, Tweed.  She started her career with Blake Dawson in Melbourne, Australia and holds geology, law and business degrees.

Jean Bonhotal
Technical Advisor

Jean Bonhotal is an Associate Director at Cornell Waste Management Institute.  She has worked at the Cornell Waste Management Institute in solid waste education for over 20 years, first working for Cornell Cooperative Extension in Broome County, then for Cornell Waste Management Institute.  For the last ten years, Ms. Bonhotal has been working on composting feedstock from food waste to manure to animal carcasses.  Currently her time is split between manure, carcass and butcher waste composting, education and research.  Prior to joining Cornell Waste Management Institute, Ms. Bonhotal worked with different agencies including US Forest and National Park Service, US EPA, NYS DEC and the landscape and greenhouse industry.  She received an M.S. degree in Education and Communication from SUNY Binghamton in 1991, a B.S. in Biology from Utah State University in 1984 and an A.A.S. in Natural Resources from SUNY Morrisville.  She has published and lectured extensively on organics recycling and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Clark Dees
Strategic Advisor

Clark Dees is a Managing Director of Teneo Capital, a global merchant banking and strategy consulting company providing integrated advisory services to enable its clients to manage and organize their businesses, drive growth, build reputations and protect brand value.  Immediately before Teneo, Clark was the Founder and Managing Director of Gray Ghost Advisors, advising emerging clean technology companies on strategic planning, capital formation and transaction execution.  Clark’s focus was on biomaterials and bioenergy with particular expertise in waste-based business models related to the generation and beneficial conversion of biogas.  Previously, Clark spent a decade as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Banc of America Securities, focusing on mergers & acquisitions in a variety of industries, including environmental services.  He also helped establish Performax Management, a lower middle-market private equity firm investing in healthcare services.  Clark began his career at the White House, working for the Council of Economic Advisers on macroeconomic and international trade issues.  Clark received his MBA and his JD from the University of Virginia, where he was an editor of the Virginia Law Review and a co-founder of the Private Capital Symposium.  He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an AB in Economics.

Frank Franciosi
Operations Management/Sales & Marketing Advisor

Frank Franciosi is the Manager of the Nature’s GREEN-RELEAF ^TM - Novozymes North America, Inc. Composting Facility, current President of the US Composting Council, and a Board member of the North Carolina Composting Council.  Frank has spent the last 20 years working with residuals management and composting both in operations management as well as sales and marketing.  In 1993, he started North Carolina’s first source separated organics composting facility.   As past principal of Akkadia Consulting, he provided professional consulting services on projects of animal waste management, biosolids management, coal ash residuals, composting of industrial residuals, product development and marketing.  During his career, Frank has facilitated the turnkey start-up of award winning composting facilities, taking them from concept to feasibility to operational,  overseeing permitting, equipment selection, hiring and training of personnel, as well as the development and execution of the product marketing plan.  Frank’s facilities received awards from the Carolina Recycling Association in 1995 and again in 2005.  In 2010 the Nature’s GREEN-RELEAF Composting Facility received the NC Soil and Water Conservation Society’s Conservation Business Award for their work on developing compost use specifications for erosion and sediment control.  Frank has a BS in Plant and Soil Sciences from West Virginia University.

Dr. Jamie Hendry
Sustainable Business Management Advisor

Jamie Hendry is an associate professor and chair of the program in Managing for Sustainability in the School of Management at Bucknell University.  She holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in management and environmental studies, an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s Darden School, and a B.S. from George Mason University.  Jamie teaches organizational strategy and ethics with a focus on balancing financial, social, and environmental concerns.  Her research focuses on the factors that lead to connections and disconnections between an organization’s stated values and its actions regarding sustainability. Jamie is currently the President of the International Association for Business and Society (IABS).  She sits on the editorial boards of Business & Society and Journal of Business Ethics Education and has numerous publications in management and engineering journals.  Prior to entering academia, Jamie spent over a dozen years managing small businesses as well as consulting corporate, non-profit, and governmental organizations including USEPA.