Benjamin N.S. Brown: Chief Executive Officer
Ben has a background in energy markets, energy modeling, renewable energy and regulatory economics. Prior to MakeMeSustainable, he contracted with Constellation New Energy to work on their energy efficiency and load response offering and design renewable energy products for their smaller commercial and residential markets in New England. He previously worked as consulting Analyst in various Energy and Environment practices. MMS is Ben's first entrepreneurial venture, representing the culmination of several years of professional experience and personal concern for the environment. Ben graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Mathematical-Economics. There he received numerous academic distinctions, including the Wesleyan University Davenport Grant for thesis work on Climate Change and adaptation in the Developing World for which he received high-honors. He was a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics and is co-author of an article on climate change in Climate Policy titled, "Mitigation as a Tool to Manage the Risk in Adaptation and Development Planning". Ben has been devoted to progressive causes and the environment since high school, working with Greenpeace in its campaign against global warming and initiative to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He shares his time between New York and Boston.
David Delcourt: Chief Operating Officer
David Delcourt is the co-founder and COO of MakeMeSustainable.com. From his high school days in Asheville, NC to the present, he has been an active environmentalist and advocate for ecological consciousness on the political level. David has been quoted in various periodicals including the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Weekly Dig and numerous blogs, and his writing has been featured in the Huffington post and FoundRead.com. He was featured in BusinessWeek's January 2008 special "Switching to Green Jobs" alongside long time hero Al Gore. Prior to founding MakeMeSustainable, David worked in natural resources finance and in economic consulting. As long as there is less then a few inches of snow, he can be spotted riding his bike around Boston.
Wyatt Greene: Chief Engineer
Wyatt brings over ten years of professional technology experience to MakeMeSustainable, both as a programmer and as a technology educator. Wyatt received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University in 1998. Since then he has worked professionally on a variety of programming projects including a life-critical traffic control application and a web-based healthcare information system. For the past three years he has been building web applications with Ruby on Rails.
Wyatt joined the founding team because he shares MakeMeSustainable's mission of developing simple, cost-effective tools and services for individuals and businesses to live environmentally responsible and financially sensible lifestyles.
Adam Schrader-Brown: Chief Creative Officer
Adam is currently a lecturer at Brooklyn College and John Jay College, where he teaches Undergraduate English and the STAR program for public high school students. Adam received his Bachelor of Arts in History and African American Studies from Princeton University and his Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. He brings a range of experience in creative writing, new media, advertising, education and social activism. Adam has worked as a teaching artist in the New York City public school system through the Community Word Project and through an NYSEA grant which sponsors Artists residencies in NYC's neediest public schools. He has also worked over the past three years teaching Poetry to adolescents from local area homeless shelters through the Arts Conservatory Program at the New South Bronx PAL. Adam's writing has been featured in the Earshot series and the John Jay Selects series. His work has been published in McSweenys, VerbSap, and Lorraine and James.
