Sustainable America
Board

Nick Tiller

Nick Tiller is an investor and the founder of Sustainable America, a public charity dedicated to making our nation’s food and energy systems more sustainable through education and impact investing. Sustainable America’s assets are invested in private companies that drive real positive change in the food and fuel sectors to help achieve its charitable mission. Sustainable America invested in over a dozen companies including seed investments in XLFleet and EV Connect. As an individual, Nick is a seed investor in many other energy transition start-ups. He is an advisor to Carbonvert, a carbon sequestration project development and finance company. He also serves on the Energy Transition Advisory Board for Pickering Energy Partners.

From 2016-2019 Nick launched and managed Precocity Capital, an energy hedge fund with long/short and long only public equity portfolios. From 2002-2013, Nick managed a long/short equity and commodity portfolio for SAC Capital Advisors, now Point72. Over his tenure, he helped build the energy franchise from a three-person effort to 10 portfolio teams and 30 investment professionals. From 1998 to 2002, Nick was an analyst and portfolio manager for Fidelity Management & Research. He managed Fidelity Select Energy Services, with assets of $1 billion, outperforming his benchmark each year of his tenure.

Nick earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. While there, Nick was awarded the Dean’s Award for leadership and community service by co-founding the Harbus Foundation. He received a BA from Boston College.

Adam Dell

Adam is the Founder and CEO of Domain Money. He was most recently a partner at Goldman Sachs where he served as Head of Product at Marcus by Goldman Sachs. There he built foundational products like Marcus Invest, Marcus Checking and the market leading mobile application Marcus Insights. Prior to Goldman, Adam founded four companies, including Clarity Money, acquired by Goldman Sachs (GS); MessageOne, acquired by Dell (DELL), Buzzsaw, acquired by Autodesk (ADSK) and Civitas Learning, acquired by Francisco Partners.

Adam served as an adjunct professor at both the Business School at Columbia University and the University of Texas School of Law. He holds a B.A. in Political Economy from Tulane University and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. He likes big ideas, long walks on the beach and spending time with his family.

Ken Grewal

Ken is the co-founder & CEO of Forthlane Partners, an innovative multi-family office, with a focus on pension style investing, and dedicated to servicing Canada’s ultra-high-net-worth families. Ken brings deep capital markets and global thematic domain expertise to Forthlane. During his cross-border career that has spanned over 20 years, Ken has brought the ‘World to Canada’ and 'Canada to the World'. Prior to returning to his native Canada in 2017 to build Forthlane, Ken was the Capital Markets Strategist at Precocity Capital, one of the world’s largest global resource hedge fund launches in 2016. From 2009-2015, Ken acted as Managing Director, Canadian Institutional Equity Sales at BMO Capital Markets (BMO) in New York City, where he had extensive relationships with premier global macro and equity long/short hedge funds. Prior to his role at BMO, Ken was a core partner at UBS Securities Canada, where he quarterbacked the firm’s New York City efforts in creating actionable ideas for thematic oriented investors. Ken also led Credit Suisse First Boston’s Canadian Equity Capital Markets Group, where he advised many of Canada’s leading companies on cross-border equity, debt and M&A transactions.

Ken began his career in Corporate Finance at Scotia Capital in 1996 after completing his Bachelor of Commerce (First-Class Honours) at Queen’s University. He currently serves on the Global Advisory Council for the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and on the boards of St. Joseph’s Health Centre Foundation (Toronto) and Sustainable America. From 2014-2017, Ken served as the Chairman of the US Foundation for Queen’s University. In 2008, Ken was named a ‘Community Hero’ by the Toronto Football Club for his mentoring work in Regent Park (‘Boyz 2 Men’ program) and in 1999 he was selected the Big Brother of the Year (In-School Mentoring Program) for the City of Toronto.

Lori Helwing

An Economist on Wall Street for 25 years, Lori has specialized experience forecasting all aspects of the US economy, including the energy and food sectors. Her career has been to anticipate future trends including inflation, consumer spending, business investment and international trade. This work has helped investors at premier money management firms make optimal investment decisions to capitalize on macro developments affecting financial markets.

Most recently, Lori was a strategic advisor and lead Financial Markets Economist at Morning Consult where she led efforts to create research for a Wall Street audience. Prior roles included a Chief US Economist role a Point72 Asset Management where she worked closely with in- house traders and portfolio managers, a US Economist position at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America generating research for institutional clients and a Global Economic Analyst at Wellington Management working with a broad array of fixed income and equity investors.

Lori earned her BA from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1997 and later completed graduate level coursework in Economics at Boston University.

Lori has long been a supporter of animal rights causes. She is an avid gardener and personally practices recycling household waste as much as possible. This includes food composting to positively reduce her environmental footprint and she encourages others to do the same.

Jeremy Kranowitz

Jeremy Kranowitz is the President and CEO of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, the largest city affiliate in the Keep America Beautiful network. He is part of civic leadership working to make Indianapolis a cleaner, greener place to live, work and play. Prior, he worked at Hazon, to increase sustainability at American Jewish institutions and in Jewish life. He served as CEO of Sustainable America for its first four years. Prior to Sustainable America, Jeremy worked at the Keystone Policy Center as a mediator and educator to resolve complex, multi-stakeholder environmental disputes. He began his career with the environment practice at McKinsey & Co. He has a Masters in Public Administration from New York University and a Masters in Environmental Science and B.A. from Johns Hopkins. Jeremy and his wife and three children love exploring city parks throughout Indianapolis.

Michael Nieling

Michael is a designer, educator, father, and full-time cyclone of energy. He is the creative director at Ocupop and co-founder of Kunoa Cattle Company, and teaches logo design. Splitting time between offices in Hawaii, British Columbia, California, and Wisconsin, if he's not on an airplane, he's likely somewhere shouting about marketing and design.

Michael has been helping to define the visual language of our digital experience since 2000. As creative director and founder of Ocupop, he has led projects for companies, foundations, and non-profits at all ends of the spectrum from Google, Facebook and Mozilla to countless successful start-ups and cause-driven organizations like ProPublica, FIRST, ReFED, and the W3C. Michael has directed Ocupop's team in creating some of the most influential logos, campaigns, and user interfaces on the web and beyond.

Michael Evan Webber, Ph.D.

Michael Webber is the Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he trains a new generation of energy leaders through research and education at the intersection of engineering, policy, and commercialization. He has authored more than 150 scientific articles, books, and book chapters, including a compendium of his commentary titled Changing the Way America Thinks About Energy (2009); his expertise and research have been featured in numerous media outlets.

Michael has given more than 175 lectures, speeches, and invited talks, including testimony for hearings of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee and lectures at the United Nations. He is on the board of advisors for Scientific American, holds four patents, and is one of the originators of the Pecan Street Project, which is a $30 million public-private partnership for smart grid innovation and deployment.

Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin, Michael studied issues relevant to energy, innovation, manufacturing, and national security at the RAND Corporation and was a Senior Scientist at Pranalytica.