Elizabeth Bennett Carroll, Partner
      P. J. Deschenes, Partner
      John P. DeVillars, Partner
      Stephanie Pollack, Partner
      Kim Lundgren, Municipal Programs Director
      Eric S. Graber-Lopez, Director, Renewable Energy
      Christina Dietrich, Research Associate

John P. DeVillars, Partner

John P. DeVillars is a Founder and Partner of BlueWave Strategies and Managing Partner of its affiliated investment group, BlueWave Capital. He currently advises brownfield developers and environmental and renewable energy companies in the areas of project management, financing and capital sourcing, regulatory approvals, community and government relations and business development.

From 2000 to 2003, Mr. DeVillars served as the Executive Vice President of Brownfields Recovery Corporation (“BRC”), a Boston-based real estate investment and development company that focuses on environmentally impaired properties. He remains very active in BRC’s current development projects including– a 1200-acre industrial port facility in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands – where, among other services, BlueWave is involved in site planning, project management, permitting, and the incorporation of green building standards and the use of renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass) and other sustainability measures.

From 1994 to 2000, Mr. DeVillars served as the New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he directed the operations of 800 employees and a $400 million annual budget. Under his leadership EPA New England was recognized as a national leader in smart growth, regulatory reform, environmental technology, and brownfields development, winning more awards for successful reform than any other EPA office. Mr. DeVillars led EPA's efforts in achieving precedent-setting environmental settlements with the United States Departments of Defense, Air Force and National Guard; General Electric and Pfizer Corporations; New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts Departments of Transportation; and numerous municipal governments throughout New England.

Mr. DeVillars previously served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and Chief of Operations for Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. From 1991 to 1994, he was Director of the Environmental Services Group for Coopers & Lybrand where he initiated and led the firm’s environmental management systems group. He has received numerous awards for his environmental service, including the President’s Award of the Nature Conservancy, given annually for national leadership in environmental affairs.

Mr. DeVillars holds an MPA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Board of Directors of Clean Harbors, Inc., Alteris Renewables, Inc. and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust as well as several other privately held energy and environmental corporations and non-profit organizations. Mr. DeVillars was a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's Energy and Environment Transition Working Group. From 1999 to 2003 Mr. DeVillars held the position of Lecturer in Environmental Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continues to lecture at MIT, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government.

Elizabeth Bennett Carroll, Partner

Elizabeth Carroll is a Founder and Partner of BlueWave Strategies. She has more than 12 years of experience working with real estate developers, businesses, and government agencies on the design, implementation and evaluation of environmental initiatives and real estate development projects. Since 1995, she has focused largely on projects related to redevelopment of urban brownfield sites. She brings to her projects strong management skills, a deep understanding of environmental and land use policies, and an excellent track record in sourcing public and private capital for developers.

Ms. Carroll is actively involved in several of BlueWave’s real estate development projects, including Brownfields Recovery Corporation’s (BRC’s) 1200-acre industrial port facility in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the redevelopment of Jackson Square in Roxbury, Massachusetts. For these projects, Ms. Carroll focuses largely on community and regulatory outreach, the incorporation of green building and smart growth principles into the development plans, and the securing of public investment dollars. Using her in-depth knowledge of how public investment programs operate and what it takes to secure funds, Ms. Carroll has successfully sourced hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital for various development projects.

From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Carroll served as the Director of Business Development for BRC, where she focused on generating deal flow, capital sourcing, government and public relations and green building design. Before joining BRC, Ms. Carroll held senior consulting positions with Eastern Research Group (ERG) and Booz·Allen & Hamilton Inc. At ERG, Ms. Carroll worked on a broad range of national environmental policy initiatives including air quality, waste management and brownfields redevelopment. She also helped establish the firm’s Smart Growth practice. At Booz·Allen, she played a key management role on the Booz·Allen team that supported EPA in the initial development and implementation of its Brownfields Initiative.

As a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Ms. Carroll co-founded a small niche consulting firm, Bennett Brownfields Group, Inc., that specialized in providing research, communications, and project implementation support for public and private organizations engaged in the redevelopment of environmentally impacted properties. Her clients included Arthur Andersen LLP, EPA, the City of Yonkers, New York, and Environmental Data Resources, Inc. for whom she co-authored a chapter on the brownfields marketplace in an EDR publication entitled, The Environmental Industry: Market Forces, Strategies, and Tactics Through 2000. While at Yale, Ms. Carroll also served as a graduate intern in EPA’s Brownfields Office, working directly with the Assistant Administrator and his staff to help develop solutions to emerging policy issues.

A significant portion of Ms. Carroll’s graduate research was devoted to applying the principles of industrial ecology to real estate development. Her research included projects with Northeast Utilities and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, both of which resulted in published papers. Her previous work experience includes research positions at the President’s Council for Environmental Quality and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Ms. Carroll holds a MEM from Yale University and BA in Environmental Science from The University of Virginia.

Stephanie Pollack, Partner

Stephanie Pollack, Esq. is a Partner of BlueWave Strategies, where she specializes in advising clients on sustainability strategies for real estate projects with an emphasis on larger-scale smart growth and transit-oriented developments. She brings to those projects expertise on sustainable design and transportation as well as permitting and regulatory approvals, public policy, government affairs and stakeholder outreach and alignment. For more than three years she has worked on sustainability strategy, regulatory frameworks, permitting and infrastructure funding issues for the master developer of SouthField (the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station). Ms. Pollack has also provided a wide range of sustainability strategy services for large-scale projects in the City of Boston including Jackson Square (a super green mixed-use/affordable housing development on the Roxbury/Jamaica Plain border) and Harvard University's Allston campus.

Ms. Pollack has more than twenty five years of professional experience in the environmental, transportation and public health fields. A nationally-known environmental attorney, Ms. Pollack was previously Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Communications at the Conservation Law Foundation, New England's leading environmental advocacy organization. In her career at CLF, spanning roughly two decades, Ms. Pollack worked on a range of development and environmental issues including smart growth and affordable housing, development in the South Boston Waterfront and on Massachusetts Turnpike air rights, transportation and transit policy and planning and review of projects under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act and Chapter 91/Public Waterfront Act. She litigated in both state and federal court, drafted and successfully built coalitions for passage of environmental protection legislation at both the state and federal level, served as lead counsel in adjudicatory hearings and rulemaking proceedings and submitted extensive regulatory comments on a wide range of projects.

Ms. Pollack is active in public policy issues affecting sustainable development, environmental policy and transportation in Massachusetts. She co-chaired Governor Deval Patrick's transition working group on transportation issues. She has served on governmental advisory bodies at both the state level (MEPA Working Group, Chapter 91/Municipal Harbor Plan Working Group, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner's Advisory Committee, Urban Ring Citizens Advisory Committee and Commission on Transportation Restructuring) and local level (BRA's Municipal Harbor Plan Advisory Committee). She currently serves on the boards of the Charles River Watershed Association, The Medical Foundation and the Alliance for Healthy Housing.

Ms. Pollack is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, where she also teaches graduate courses in the Law, Policy and Society program. At CURP her work focuses on sustainable development and transportation policy and she has authored studies on using transportation investment as a strategy for supporting metropolitan Boston's life sciences cluster and on transit-oriented development in greater Boston. She has presented at numerous national and local conferences on issues of sustainable development and transportation policy.

Ms. Pollack holds a JD from Harvard Law School and BS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in both Mechanical Engineering and Public Policy.

P. J. Deschenes, Partner

P.J. Deschenes is a Founder and Partner of BlueWave Strategies. In the fall of 2006, he left his full time position as a Senior Associate with BlueWave to pursue his MBA at Harvard Business School. Upon graduating, Mr. Deschenes joined the Renewable Energy Group at GE Financial Services where he currently works as an Associate. In this role he helps underwrite both debt and equity investments in new and existing wind, solar and biomass power projects. Mr. Deschenes remains a partner at BlueWave, providing strategic counsel on various BlueWave endeavors.

At BlueWave, Mr. Deschenes consulted to numerous start-up environmental and energy technology companies seeking to launch new technologies or to enter new markets. His work included assessing the environmental performance of various products and services and helping executives make informed decisions on business strategy and product marketing. His clients included firms involved in real estate development, real estate investing, building products, waste management, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, aerospace, power generation, energy technology, industrial recycling and pest control.

Prior to joining BlueWave, Mr. Deschenes worked at the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, where he conducted research on industrial ecology as a driver for economic development in Puerto Rico and helped develop an environmental sustainability assessment for the corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility of Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Mr. Deschenes holds an MEM from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard and a BS in Forestry and Mathematics from The University of the South. Mr. Deschenes is certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED Accredited Professional.

Kim Lundgren, Municipal Programs Director

Kim Lundgren is the Municipal Programs Director for BlueWave Strategies, leading the firm's role with the Massachusetts Green Communities Technical Assistance Program as well as other related municipal projects. Ms. Lundgren has more than ten years experience in the environmental field, with more than eight of these years working directly with local governments on climate change protection and sustainability. Most recently, she was the U.S. Services Director for ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability USA, Inc. where she oversaw membership services to ICLEI's growing network of more than 550 local government members across the country. ICLEI works with its member local governments on various initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable communities, including the development of greenhouse gas emission inventories, climate action planning, and implementation of emissions reduction and energy efficiency measures. In this role, Ms. Lundgren also spearheaded the development and implementation of the organization's decentralized regional office service model, designed with the goal of sharing resources and driving state and regional action based on municipal best practices. Prior to joining ICLEI, Ms. Lundgren was the Director of the Energy and Environment Department for the City of Medford, MA where she led all climate and energy work for the City, including the development and implementation of the first municipal climate action plan in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In this role, she also oversaw all municipal stormwater management, wetlands protection, hazardous waste, and environmental community outreach programs in the City. Ms. Lundgren has a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.

Eric S. Graber-Lopez, Director, Renewable Energy

As Director of BlueWave's renewable energy practice Mr. Graber-Lopez is deeply involved in the management of BlueWave Strategies and BlueWave Capital's renewable energy activities. He also serves as a Principal with HeliaVentures a project development venture partnering with BlueWave on numerous renewable energy projects, with a particular focus on solar photovoltaic. Mr. Graber-Lopez advises early stage clean energy companies and entrepreneurs in the areas of finance, strategy, due diligence and market analysis. Prior to joining BlueWave Mr. Graber-Lopez served as Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst on the Specialty Equity Growth Team at Putnam Investments. He was a member of a team that managed $8 billion in U.S. mid- and large-cap growth equity portfolios. Mr. Graber-Lopez key areas of focus have been the Energy, Alternative Energy, Materials, and Utilities sectors. He was responsible for the team's investments in those sectors both within the public and private markets. Previously, Mr. Graber-Lopez was Senior Equity Analyst within Putnam's Global Equity Research Group and was a member of the Natural Resources and Utilities fund teams. Mr. Graber-Lopez, joined Putnam in 2002, and has been in the investment industry for over 15 years. During his years on Wall Street, Mr. Graber-Lopez focused on the Energy and Utilities industries working both as an advisor on investment banking transactions and a research analyst. During his years on the sell-side as an investment analyst, Mr. Graber-Lopez was ranked as being among the top analysts in his areas of focus by several leading industry surveys. Mr. Graber-Lopez has extensive experience in firm valuation, project development and financing, mergers & acquisitions advisory, private equity transactions, and portfolio management. Mr. Graber-Lopez has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from Hampshire College and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.

Christina Dietrich, Research Associate

Christina Dietrich is an Associate Director at BlueWave Strategies, where she supports the BlueWave team on a range of renewable energy and sustainable development projects. Much of her work focuses on supporting the firm's LEED certification efforts, completing feasibility studies to advance renewable energy projects, and staying abreast of the latest policy developments in the green building and renewable energy sectors. Prior to joining BlueWave, Ms. Dietrich worked with the West Virginia Sustainable Communities Project to foster sustainability and environmental initiatives throughout the state. Specifically she developed and presented educational programs on energy and water conservation at schools, public events and conferences, and advanced renewable energy opportunities.

Her previous work experience includes an internship with Resources for the Future in Washington D.C. where she researched environmental justice issues, and working as part of the hut crew of the Appalachian Mountain Club in New Hampshire. Ms. Dietrich holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Connecticut College. Her undergraduate thesis looked at the influence of sustainable development and cost-effectiveness on the efficacy of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.