Meet the Team
Teacher-scholars and practitioners on the leading edge of theory and practice.
Center Team
Erin Mansur
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research; Revers Professor of Business Administration
Erin Mansur is the senior associate dean for faculty and research, the Revers Professor of Business Administration, and faculty director of the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability and Innovation. In addition to his positions at Tuck, Mansur is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct professor (by courtesy) in Dartmouth College’s Economics department. His research interests focus on industrial organization and environmental economics, primarily on questions regarding energy markets and energy policy. Recent work examines electric-car charging and power-plant emissions, the changing U.S. electricity grid, decarbonization and electrification policies, and the dispatch of existing power plants. Mansur’s research has appeared in numerous top journals, including the American Economic Review; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; and the Journal of Industrial Economics, where he is an associate editor. Before Tuck, Mansur taught in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth, the School of Management at Yale University, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale.
Jonathan Silverthorne D’08
Director, Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability & Innovation
Jonathan Silverthorne is the Director of the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. His experience spans work in the energy industry, leadership development field, and international policy.
Prior to Tuck, Jonathan worked on financing and deploying solar and storage projects at Amp Energy, a global developer and asset owner, where he focused on late-stage development, investor diligence, and US policy. From 2011-2017, he ran professional fellowships for rising leaders in energy, climate, and foreign policy as Director of the Millennium Leadership Program at the Atlantic Council. With a background in international affairs, he also served in the Obama Administration as a policy advisor at the US Department of Homeland Security.
Jonathan has an MBA and master’s degree in energy studies from Yale University and a BA in History summa cum laude from Dartmouth. He speaks French, Russian and conversational Arabic; is a board director at the American Resilience Project; and enjoys tennis, hiking, and exploring the Upper Valley with his dog, Argo.
April Turner-Girard
Program Manager, Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability & Innovation
April Turner-Girard is the Program Manager for the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation. Prior to Tuck, April taught at Vermont State Colleges as an Adjunct Professor and worked as a Social Media Strategist/Sr. Designer for Hanover Co-op Food Stores, the second largest co-op in the United States. At the Co-op, April managed marketing initiatives for local food sales and growth.
From 2007-2013, April worked for the Dartmouth College Fund supporting marketing and fundraising. In this role, she managed the $500,000 communications budget and tracked ROI for all marketing programs. Prior to moving to Vermont, April worked for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as the Program Coordinator at Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Lab. In this role, she ran the short-term participant program where college students worked side-by-side with researchers Dr. Lou Herman and Dr. Adam Pack.
As a past naturalist working in the Bahamas and Hawaii, April holds a wealth of information about marine mammals. Not surprisingly, she spends her free time volunteering for Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC). She holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University and a BA from University of California Santa Barbara.
Faculty
Bryan Bollinger D’03, Th’03
Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing
Before joining Tuck, Bryan Bollinger was a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he served as the academic director of doctoral studies. His interdisciplinary research portfolio aims to understand the causal effects of marketing and policy decisions and the interdependent reactions by consumers and firms. Examples include drivers of solar adoption and pricing, the role of home-automation and dynamic pricing on demand response, and response to information. His research has been supported by grants from the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and others. His work has been published in all of the leading journals in marketing, as well as in journals in other disciplines, including Nature, PNAS, AEJ: Economic Policy, and the RAND Journal of Economics. Bollinger serves on the editorial review boards at the Journal of Marketing Research, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Marketing Science, and Journal of Consumer Research. His research has been highlighted in news outlets such as the Economist, NPR, the New York Times, and the Harvard Business Review.
Charlie Donovan
Clinical Professor
Charlie Donovan was most recently Principal Economist at Impax Asset Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm managing approximately $40 billion across listed equities, fixed income, and private markets. Previously, he served as Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School and Academic Director of Imperial’s MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance program. He was Head of Structuring and Valuation for global power at BP plc and part of the team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. Charlie began his career as an Energy Policy Analyst with the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. He is co-author and editor of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, now in its second edition.
Erin Mansur
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research; Revers Professor of Business Administration
Erin Mansur is the senior associate dean for faculty and research, the Revers Professor of Business Administration, and faculty director of the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability and Innovation. In addition to his positions at Tuck, Mansur is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct professor (by courtesy) in Dartmouth College’s Economics department. His research interests focus on industrial organization and environmental economics, primarily on questions regarding energy markets and energy policy. Recent work examines electric-car charging and power-plant emissions, the changing U.S. electricity grid, decarbonization and electrification policies, and the dispatch of existing power plants. Mansur’s research has appeared in numerous top journals, including the American Economic Review; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; and the Journal of Industrial Economics, where he is an associate editor. Before Tuck, Mansur taught in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth, the School of Management at Yale University, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale.
James Smith
Jack Byrne Distinguished Professor in Decision Science
James E. Smith is the Jack Byrne Distinguished Professor in Decision Science at Dartmouth College, a position within the Jack Byrne Academic Cluster, which focuses on applying mathematical thinking to societal challenges. His research centers on decision analysis—specifically decision-making over time and under uncertainty, including dynamic programming. Smith received the Frank P. Ramsey Medal from INFORMS in 2008 for distinguished contributions to decision analysis.
Smith has long worked on energy applications. His early work focused on “real options” analysis of investments in the upstream oil and gas sector, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Chevron. More recently, he has been working in the electric utility sector, focusing on optimizing dispatch under uncertainty.
Smith earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and a PhD in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University. He served on the faculty of Duke's Fuqua School of Business from 1990 to 2018, before joining the Tuck School at Dartmouth. He currently teaches the Analytics 1 core course at Tuck.
Anant K. Sundaram
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Anant Sundaram teaches Corporate Valuation and Business and Climate Change at Tuck. His areas of expertise are business valuation, M&A, corporate governance, and financial strategies for profitable growth.
Kenneth Pucker
Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Ken is an operator, adviser, investor, and educator with an abiding focus on sustainability and ESG. He is a professor of the practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In addition, Ken serves at Berkshire Partners as an advisory director, where he is a founding member of the Responsible Investment Committee. Ken is a published author in periodicals such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Institutional Investor, the Harvard Business Review, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. He also serves on the boards of King Arthur Baking, the Commonwealth School, Mighty Earth, and The High Meadows Institute. Ken spent most of his professional career working at footwear and apparel maker Timberland (formerly NYSE: TBL), serving as chief operating officer from 2000 to 2007.
Fellows
Rae Aaron T’27
Rae Aaron is a T'27 Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation Fellow. Prior to Tuck, she spent four years at HSBC Securities in New York as an Investment Banking Associate in Sustainable Debt Capital Markets, where she advised a global client base on fixed income funding and sustainability strategy to support their energy transition decarbonization efforts. In this role, she structured Sustainable Finance Frameworks and supported the origination and marketing of bond transactions. She began her career in Treasury at Barclays Investment Bank, focusing on capital, leverage, and liquidity management.
Rae is interested in the intersection between energy, sustainability, and security, and is interning for a defense-tech startup building autonomous anti-drone systems in California. At Tuck, Rae is a Forté Foundation Fellow and is co-president of the Jewish Students Association. She will do a fall term exchange at Bocconi in Milan. Rae holds a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College.
Vivek Bhagat T’27
Vivek Bhagat is a T’27 Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation Fellow at Tuck. He serves as Co-Chair of the South Asian Business Association and the Tuck Games Club. Vivek holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering and previously worked as a Scientific Officer at India’s premier nuclear research institute, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. He later joined the founding team of a warehouse robotics startup, driving innovation in automation. Vivek will intern at BCG Chicago this summer. He is passionate about the role of nuclear energy in meeting rising global demand sustainably. In his free time, he enjoys playing badminton, tennis, and squash.
Andrew Clark T’27
Andrew Clark is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. For the last six years, he has worked in the energy sector. For two years, he worked at Sprague Operating Resources, a midstream oil and natural gas company located in Portsmouth, NH, as a Corporate Development analyst primarily focused on mergers and acquisitions and commodities trading. Afterwards, for the last four years before enrolling at Tuck, he worked at Fortistar Capital, a private equity firm focused on renewable energy and infrastructure investments in New York City, as a M&A and Corporate Development associate, primarily focused on the firm’s largest portfolio company, OPAL Fuels, a renewable natural gas developer, operator, and dispenser. He raised almost $1 billion of growth capital, including project-level and senior secured debt and preferred equity, and evaluated dozens of acquisition and organic development opportunities. Drew looks forward to interning at Apterra Infrastructure Capital, subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, this summer in New York City where he will analyze private credit investment opportunities in energy and infrastructure companies. Drew graduated from Bowdoin College, double majoring in Economics and Government and Legal Studies with a minor in Chinese. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis, squash, pickleball, golf, and cheering for all the Philadelphia sports teams.
Sean Fox T’27
Sean Fox is a T'27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, he spent six years in Boston, MA, first working at BNY Mellon and later at Citigroup, where he specialized in managing sponsor relationships and underwriting subscription credit facilities for middle market private equity firms. Sean looks forward to interning at Strategy& this summer where he will advise investors in due diligence, post-deal growth planning, and value creation initiatives as part of the firm's PEVC TMT practice. Sean is passionate about energy finance and infrastructure. In his spare time, he enjoys playing rugby, snowboarding, hiking the Upper Valley and is certified to Ski Patrol via the National Ski Patrol association.
Chandler King T’27
Chandler spent the past eight years as a Navy Special Operations Officer, leading teams across four continents in response to explosive and environmental crises. Most recently, he served as the lead for Navy Nuclear Emergency Response on the eastern coast of the U.S. Chandler holds a Bachelor of Science in English from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In his spare time, he enjoys mountaineering and surfing.
Katie Kleinknecht T’27
Katie Kleinknecht is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, she spent time working in technology early-stage start-ups. She is at Tuck to combine her love of early-stage entrepreneurship with climate and energy. Katie is passionate about clean energy start-ups and believes that the energy transition represents opportunity to build lasting businesses with real climate impact. This summer, she will intern at Maine Venture Fund in Portland learning about early-stage venture capital. In her spare time, she enjoys biking, film photography, and experimenting in the kitchen.
Kate Longo T’27
Kate Longo is a T'27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, she spent seven years in Washington, D.C., first conducting research and development in a materials science lab at W.R. Grace & Co. and later at Great Minds, where she managed the development of K-5 science curricula and led initiatives reaching students nationwide. Kate looks forward to interning at the World Wildlife Fund this summer, where she will work on the impact investment team analyzing opportunities in regenerative agriculture and aquaculture. Kate is passionate about sustainability and renewable energy. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking New Hampshire's 4,000-foot peaks with her dog, playing pickleball, and sampling local maple creemees.
Katie Malus T’27
Katie Malus is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, she spent nearly four years at Strategy& in New York, NY and Washington, D.C. At Strategy&, she worked across Industrial Products and Services companies but eventually specialized in Energy and Utilities companies. Katie looks forward to interning at Glasswing Ventures, an AI-focused early-stage venture capital firm. Katie is passionate about learning about the venture capital space and how AI will continue to play a role in the energy transition. Katie is also a fellow at the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital. In her spare time, she enjoys running, hiking, and finding the best spot for ice cream in the Upper Valley.
Sarah McEachern T’27
Sarah McEachern is a T’27 revers fellow. Prior to Tuck Sarah spent 4 years in Minneapolis working at the reinsurance brokerage Guy Carpenter as a member of their Crop Team. She is looking forward to spending this summer in San Francisco where she will be working as a summer consultant for L.E.K. At Tuck, Sarah is a member of the sailing club and the chair of the John Barleycorn Society. She also enjoys doing anything outside from hiking and swimming in the river in the fall to skiing in the winter. Sarah holds a B.A in economic and political Science from Middlebury college.
Roland Montemayor T’27
Roland Montemayor is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow and a Professional Engineer in the states of Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho. He is a former U.S. Navy CEC Production Officer overseeing utilities, energy management, transportation, and performance assessment under a $252M Base Operating Services Contract. He led the technical execution of innovative energy and resiliency projects at Naval Air Station Fallon (NASF) and directed 9 managers and 170 personnel supporting 19 mission-essential annexes. He and his team applied engineering and business best practices to safeguard and optimize $3.1B+ in base assets and infrastructure. Roland is very excited to intern at Amazon’s VGT2 facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he will focus on optimizing parts of the sorting processes. Roland is passionate about renewable energy finance and how engineering principles improve a project's financials. His hobbies include guitar, running, reading, and snowboarding.
Bryant Narvaez T’27
Bryant Narvaez is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, he worked at Bain & Company where he developed the firm's financial tools including a pricing configurator, a revenue forecasting application, and a scope 3 carbon emission estimator. Bryant is passionate about energy finance and greenfield development and hopes to contribute toward the goal of bringing new sources of power online. This summer he will be at ExxonMobil in Houston working in their Finance organization. In his free time, Bryant loves playing volleyball, soccer, basketball, and Tripod, hosting movie nights, and supporting his favorite premier league team,Manchester United.
Keith Peña-Villa T’27
Keith Peña-Villa is a T'27 Revers Center Fellow. Prior to Tuck, he spent four years in Austin, TX, first working at Deloitte Consulting, where he worked on implementation, digital transformation, and operations projects across different industries, including financial services, healthcare, and technology. Subsequently, he entered the startup space by working for a sustainability software company and then moved into power market analytics at Aurora Energy Research in business development covering the Canadian desk. Keith looks forward to interning at RBC Capital Markets this summer where he will have the opportunity to work on mergers and acquisitions and financings of public and private companies in the power & utilities space. During his free time, Keith enjoys bbq grilling, cooking, reading history books, hiking, and traveling.
Arushi Sahay T’27
Arushi Sahay is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, she spent two years working for the New York City Utility ConEdison in their Rate Engineering department, where she worked on setting, filing, and reviewing the Electric and Steam rates for NYC and Westchester county. Prior to that she spent two and a half years in management consulting at ZS Associates. Arushi looks forward to interning at Morgan Stanley this summer where she will be an investment banking associate in their generalist program. In her spare time, she enjoys CrossFit, reading, traveling, and watching basketball (Go Nets!).
Ludwig Suarez T’27
Ludwig Suarez is a T’27 Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation Fellow. After graduating from Columbia University with a B.A. in economics, Ludwig worked there as a tutor across a breadth of disciplines including statistical modeling, economics, math, literature, art, and philosophy. He leveraged that intellectual range later as an analyst at a major electric utility where he gained exposure to energy markets, international sustainability regulation, industrial processes, and advanced data engineering. Now, as a dual MBA-Master of Engineering candidate, he intends to bridge engineering, analytics, and business strategy to drive impact at the nexus of capital markets and energy systems.
Teni Sulaiman T’27
Teni Sulaiman is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. Prior to Tuck, he spent just over a decade in the Project Management function within the Upstream and Chemicals businesses at ExxonMobil, holding multiple manager and engineering roles, including execution planning, cost and schedule controls, and field construction. He also spent half a decade running a nonprofit focused on promoting and empowering Young African Professionals. Long-term, he’s interested in energy and infrastructure development in Nigeria and is pursuing a dual MPA degree with the Havard Kennedy School of Government. This summer, he’s excited to be interning with AlixPartners in Houston, Tx, within the Strategy & Analysis practice. Outside of work, he enjoys mountain biking, surfing, and classical music composition.
Emma Ticknor T’27
Emma Ticknor is a T’27 Revers Center Fellow. Before Tuck, she worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in New York City, primarily covering the Public Sector and Climate & Sustainability practice areas, helping cities and states with decarbonization planning and energy efficiency projects. This summer, Emma will intern at Hull Street Energy-backed Flatiron Energy in Boston, focused on commercial offtake and policy. She is also a dual degree candidate for a Master in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She likes to spend her free time hiking, skiing, golfing or anything else active and outdoors.
Kelly Ward T’27
Kelly Ward is a T’27 Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation Fellow. Before coming to Tuck, she spent nearly six years in the engineering and construction industry as a structural engineer, working on the design and rehabilitation of infrastructure projects in Florida. This summer, Kelly will intern in investment banking at Santander, where she looks forward to gaining exposure to capital allocation, financial strategy, and the role finance plays in shaping industries. At Tuck, she is exploring her interests at the intersection of finance,infrastructure, energy, sustainability, and technology. Kelly holds both a B.S. and M.Eng. in Civil Engineering. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, yoga, and cooking.
Fabrizio Zamudio T’27
Fabrizio Zamudio is a T'27 Revers Center Fellow at Tuck. Prior to Tuck, he spent 8 years in investment banking, including the last 5 at BBVA, a global Spanish bank, where he focused on M&A, ECM and Debt Advisory in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors across Latin America. Passionate about the energy transition, Fabrizio has dedicated his first year at Tuck to deepening his understanding of the US energy market. Outside the classroom, he enjoys drumming, skateboarding, snowboarding in the winter, and playing Tripod Hockey.