Stephen B. Barrett, Director
      Elizabeth Bennett Carroll, Partner
      P. J. Deschenes, Partner
      John P. DeVillars, Partner
      Stephanie Pollack, Partner
      Lori A. Ribeiro, Senior Consultant
      Christina Dietrich, 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. 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.

Stephen B. Barrett, LEED-AP, Director

Stephen Barrett is Director at BlueWave Strategies where he specializes in developing and executing environmental permitting strategies for renewable energy and sustainable development projects; evaluating the feasibility of wind, solar photovoltaic and integrated stormwater management projects; and in leading efforts to "green" buildings and community scale developments. Mr. Barrett is a LEED Accredited Professional with more than 13 years of professional experience in environmental science and regulation. He brings to BlueWave a particularly deep knowledge of how to permit large, complex energy and utility projects in coastal environments.

At BlueWave, Mr. Barrett is serving a wide range of clients in all of these areas. He is providing environmental strategy and permitting support to clients proposing environmentally-complex projects such the first desalination water treatment facility in New England under construction in Swansea Massachusetts, and the largest privately funded beach nourishment project in the nation on Sconset Beach in Nantucket. For renewable energy clients, Mr. Barrett is evaluating siting and environmental impacts such as those associated with Patriot Renewables proposed South Coast Wind Farm in Buzzards Bay. He is also helping several communities advance their solar and wind energy projects by first determining project feasibility and then helping to manage the installation process. As a LEED AP, Mr. Barrett is advising clients on sustainability issues for campus-scale plans and individual buildings, including Jackson Square in Roxbury where he is managing the LEED for Neighborhood Development certification process for this 11-acre 'super green' mixed use development. He is also coordinating all environmental assessment and permitting activities for Minuteman Wind LLC, including a 12.5 MW wind farm in the Berkshire community of Savoy, Massachusetts. He is also a partner in that business.

From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Barrett worked as a Senior Scientist at Epsilon Associates, one of leading environmental permitting firms in the Northeast. At Epsilon, Mr. Barrett developed regulatory strategies, prepared permit applications, and provided key agency coordination for several high-profile, complex infrastructure projects, including: the Nantucket Submarine Cable Project; the siting of a new terminal at Barnstable Municipal Airport, and the Fore River Power Station. Mr. Barrett was also Epsilon's lead on projects with potential impacts on fisheries and marine habitats including the Siasconset Beach Nourishment Project on Nantucket, Weaver's Cove Liquid Natural Gas Terminal and Dredging Project in Fall River, and the Island End River Remediation Project.

Before joining Epsilon, Mr. Barrett was a water quality specialist at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) where he worked with municipalities and stakeholders on a myriad of projects aimed at improving coastal water quality. At CZM, he also managed the Coastal Pollutant Remediation Program, which provided an average of $500,000 per year in stormwater demonstration grants to municipalities. He worked closely with Massachusetts marinas and boatyards on environmental strategies to limit the impacts of stormwater discharges from activities at their facilities.

Mr. Barrett holds a BA from Union College in International Relations and a MA from the University of Virginia in Environmental Science and Policy. He studied for a semester at Nanjing Teachers University in Nanjing, China in 1987. He completed his Master's Thesis on Wetland Mitigation Policy in 1995 and served on the Bolton Conservation Commission from 1996 to 2000.

P. J. Deschenes, Partner

P.J. Deschenes is a Founder and Partner of BlueWave Strategies. He has consulted to numerous start-up environmental and energy technology companies seeking to launch new technologies or to enter new markets. His work includes the development and execution of marketing strategies for environmentally preferable product and service companies and the assessment of environmentally performance products. He helps senior managers and executives make informed decisions on business strategy and product marketing. Mr. Deschenes has worked with clients in a diversity of industrial sectors to provide environmentally sound business solutions. His clients have worked 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, working closely with the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corporation and the Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation. In addition, he helped develop an environmental sustainability assessment for the corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility of Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Outside of work, Mr. Deschenes is the Chair of the Environmental Business Council’s Young Environmental Professionals Committee, and participates in a subgroup of entrepreneurs from the MIT Enterprise Forum to investigate renewable energy start-up opportunities.

Mr. Deschenes holds an MEM from Yale University 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. He is currently pursuing a MBA at Harvard Business School.

Lori A. Ribeiro, Senior Consultant

Lori Ribeiro devotes half of her professional time serving as a Senior Consultant at BlueWave Strategies. She has more than 21 years of professional experience, with the past 15 years focused on environmental and energy issues. She brings to BlueWave a rich background in solar and wind project development, strategic planning, brownfields redevelopment, municipal program development, community outreach and education, management and environmental consulting, public financing, and environmental policy.

For the past ten years, Ms. Ribeiro has been advising public and private clients as an independent practitioner in the fields of brownfields redevelopment, renewable energy and energy efficiency. She recently completed a project for the City of Brockton where she led the development of a 425-kilowatt “Brownfield to Brightfield” project. The Brockton Brightfield is a solar energy generating station developed on a former manufactured gas plant site. It is the largest solar power plant in New England and the largest Brightfield in the United States. She conceived the project, raised $245,000 in planning/feasibility study grants, directed the feasibility studies, and performed community outreach and public relations.

While leading the Brightfield project, Ms. Ribeiro served at the direction of the Mayor to manage a team of eight city departments, eight private partners, and five public agencies to authorize, finance, develop and operate the Brightfield. She helped write orders, lobby City Councilors, and testified before committees to secure unanimous City Council approval for more than a dozen local authorizations. The project required two Home Rule Petitions for which she worked with state legislators, testified at committee hearings, provided support to the legislative delegation, and recruited other key supporters to secure passage of both in 2005. Ms. Ribeiro led the effort to raise and manage a $3.8 million project development budget including $1,.7 million in installation grants; a $1.6 million Community Renewable Energy Bond; a sale-leaseback of City-owned property; and $45,000 in educational grants. She worked with a consulting team to secure a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and devise an innovative green power marketing concept that resulted in a 20-year Renewable Energy Certificate contract and power purchase agreement, with a revenue guarantee through the Massachusetts Green Power Partnership for the Renewable Energy Certificates. Once the financing was in place, Ms. Ribeiro led the procurement and vendor selection process, worked with the contractors, Department of Public Works and Building Departments to oversee facility installation, and assisted the City, lead contractor, and subcontractors to negotiate and perform facility interconnection with National Grid, including the procurement of insurance policies. She continues to work on educational programming with the community.

Ms. Ribeiro also managed the City of Brockton’s “Million Solar Roofs” initiative, and has served on a contract basis as the City’s brownfields coordinator since 1998. As brownfields coordinator, she develops project concepts, has obtained more than $5.3 million in Federal and state funding, coordinates project implementation and leads key community education and involvement efforts. In addition to her work in Brockton, Ms. Ribeiro has assisted other municipal and tribal governments in planning for renewable energy (solar, wind) installations and energy efficiency programs, and is working with a private company to install two wind turbines for onsite energy production.

Her clients have included Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, the City of Taunton, the Town of Easton, National Energy Choice, Action for Boston Community Development, Barr Foundation, Boston Lead Action Collaborative, Brockton 21 st Century Corporation, Brockton Area Multi-Services, Inc., Earth Share, Earth Share of New England, Greiner Environmental (Iowa Department of Natural Resources), Louison Child Center, JFYNetWorks, and School for Field Studies.

Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Ms. Ribeiro served as a consultant and researcher for Environmental Futures, the Environmental Careers Organization, Harbor Research Corporation, and First Market Research. She has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on brownfields and renewable energy and served on the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust’s “PV Collaborative,” an advisory group to develop Agency policy for photovoltaics programs. The Metro South Chamber of Commerce named Ms. Ribeiro its “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000.

Ms Ribeiro is a graduate of Harvard College and received her Master of Science in Environmental Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her thesis was entitled, “Does it have to be so complicated? Municipal renewable energy projects in Massachusetts.”

Christina Dietrich, Associate

Christina Dietrich is an Associate 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.