Cornell Energy Connection 2017
The Cornell Energy Club held its eighth annual Cornell Energy Connection on October 20th. The event was hosted in partnership with the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.
Corporate sponsors included:

Thank you to all who attended!
Speakers included:
Jason Blackburn, Emerson
Mark Brozina, Tangibl Group, Inc.
Micah Fuchs, Inovateus Solar
Paul DeCotis, West Monroe Partners
Brad Gallant, DTE Energy Services
Todd Glass, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
Derek LaClair, Empower Equity, Inc (EMPEQ)
Andres Castillo, Accenture
Marguerite Wells, Invenergy
David Gower, Youbicwitus LLC
Richard Levitan, Levitan & Associates
Jeff Weiss, Distributed Sun
Brian Bauer, Southern Tier Innovation Hot Spot
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Check out the highlights from last year's conference in the video below!
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Spotlight on Internships
Recent internship offers for the MBA Class of 2018:
(for recent graduates and alumni, see About Us)
Crosby Fish worked as a Summer Associate on EFS' renewable energy portfolio team. He supported a transaction designed to restructure GE's tax equity interest in wind farms around the US.
Mark DesMeules worked at a startup that has created a two-sided marketplace for renewable power purchase agreement buyers and sellers. He developed a model to value renewables and energy storage in wholesale electricity markets, and analyzed international renewables activity.
Greg Allis worked as an Summer Associate providing financial and strategic advice on mergers and acquisition and capital raises to clients in the oilfield services industry.
Jonathan Bauer worked on a business-unit-agnostic commercialization team at GE designing a marketing campaign that uses predictive analytics and a streamlined go-to-market approach to drive sales for GE's Distributed Power and Renewables business.
Miles spent the summer at Global Capital Finance, an international investment banking and financial services firm, providing innovative advice to public and private sector clients worldwide, with a strategic focus on the renewable energy sector.
Cisco Rey interned as an EDF Climate Corps Fellow where he worked with Foundation Communities, a low-income housing developer, to analyze energy efficiency retrofits, solar installations, and electric vehicle charging stations.
Internship offers for the MBA Class of 2017:
(for recent graduates and alumni, see About Us)
Geoff worked as a Project Development Intern at OneEnergy Renewables, where he built tools to inform and increase the sales of utility-scale solar projects.
Aiden interned at DTE Power & Industrials as a Summer Finance Associate, working on an investment profile of competitor firms to identify new opportunities for the New Business Development Team.
Jon worked for Vestas, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world, in Portland, Oregon. His summer project involved building the business case for an emerging customer segment.
Ted worked with the finance, development, and product teams at the largest solar company in the world. His project was to create a financial optimization tool to be used by the various teams.
Durreh works as a Climate Change Consultant, helping develop an international settlement platform for a carbon market.
Marcelo worked as a Wholesale Trading Intern and provided quantitative analysis to the team that managed Exelon’s portfolio of power plants in the New England region.
Pedro worked as a Finance & Operations Summer Associate focusing on energy deals.
David spent his summer at Honeywell working in their Connected Homes group investigating opportunities for connected devices to participate in residential demand response programs.
Dave worked as a financial associate doing financial analysis of landfill gas deals and ongoing biomass development projects.