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.”
President and Executive Officer of Industry Relations
Chris Walti
Chris has experience in oil and gas, renewable generation, and energy management. As a consultant at Accenture Technology Labs he managed the development and deployment of emerging technologies, including wireless communications and predictive analytics, at energy and power utility companies. He developed the business case for a 'refinery of the future' program, and worked under the Chief Technology Office evaluating emerging technologies for implementation across all business units at two super-majors. After Accenture Chris worked in business development for V2Green – a Seattle startup developing a hardware/software solution to manage charging of electric vehicles. Since starting at MIT Chris has interned for A123 Systems, Highland Capital Partners, and Acciona Energy.
Chris has held leadership positions in the MIT Energy Club, MIT Clean Energy Prize, Sloan Energy and Environment Club, and MIT Venture Capital and Private Equity Club. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Executive Officer of Mentorship and Events
Daniel Fink
Prior to coming to Sloan, Daniel worked in two industries: Film and also Hedge Funds. Daniel is a Co-founder of Greencard Pictures, a film production company that specializes in the production of commercials, music videos and interactive media. Daniel also worked for the hedge fund Enso Capital as a research analyst with a focus on renewable energy. Daniel was also a research assistant for Dr. Tyler Volk’s book “CO2 Rising.”
Executive Officer of Sustainability and Environment
Christina Ingersoll
Christina, is a first year MIT Sloan student. She has a degree in Biology from Carleton College, where her thesis topic was Perennial Crops as a Sink for Carbon Sequestration. Christina has worked for BuildingGreen, Inc. as a researcher and writer; in Sustainable Agriculture as the community development chair for the acclaimed Belmont Farmers' Market, and as the Communications Director for the 2009 MIT Clean Energy Prize. At MIT, Christina is focused on communications, metrics, and best practices for sustainable business development. She will be working at NREL in the summer of 2009, in the technology transfer office in Golden, CO.
Executive Officer of Treks and Finance
Mahesh Konduru
Mahesh Konduru is the Executive Director of Finances and Treks for the MIT Sloan and Energy Environment Club. His work experience prior to Sloan has been in the energy, emissions, and chemicals industries and at the US Department of Energy (in his previous life!). As job functions Mahesh has held positions of Senior Research Engineer, Product Development Engineer, and Technical Program Manager in the US and in France. His career interests are to actively participate in the the implementation of Energy and Materials innovation at a commercial scale. He is active in the VC/PE, MIT Energy, and the Squash club. Mahesh will spend his summer at Braemar Energy Ventures.
Mahesh graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron. He also attended the National Institute of Technology Karnataka in Surathkal, India where he received his B.E. in Chemical Engineering.
Executive Officer of Marketing, Communication, and Membership
John Paul "J.P." Kurpiewski
J.P. has been active in the MIT Energy community for the past 5 years, and has a technical foundation in engineering. His background and interest in clean energy started as an undergrad at Columbia, where he researched MEMS fuel cells and took energy classes in the Mechanical Engineering department, his major. That experience served as a springboard to MIT, which he joined in 2003 as a masters student. J.P. was a Research Assistant in the Electrochemical Energy Lab, studying nanotechnology applications to energy storage devices. This effort yielded an MS and patent in the field, and served as the basis for a winning MIT $50K Competition team in 2005.
Since then, J.P. was an Energy Champion at Raytheon, collaborating on a plant team to reduce facility energy usage. He also spoke at several Cape Wind public hearing events, representing the scientific community in favor of wind energy. Now at Sloan as an MBA student, he is Co-Chair of Judging for the MIT Clean Energy Prize. He also organized the Wind Energy panel of the MIT Energy Conference and was a Staff Member at Wind Week. J.P. recently led a class team project on a term-long assignment with a local utility company.
Executive Officer of Entrepreneurship
Eduard Viladesau i Franquesa
Eduard is a first-year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation track. Eduard is active in clean tech entrepreneurship, and he is a semi-finalist in the MIT 100k Entrepreneurship Competition with WaveWater, a clean tech water startup. Eduard’s family has a small solar farm in Valencia, Spain.
Prior to coming to Sloan, Eduard was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, working on projects in energy, private equity and venture capital, retail and private banking and real estate. Previously, Eduard had worked as a civil engineer, field in which he had got his MSc by the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, in Paris. As an engineer, he led a team specializing in structural, marine and geotechnical design, involved in several infrastructure projects currently under construction.