Simultaneous interpreters across silos, disciplines and cultures, we craft innovative solutions to common workplace problems.  We gravitate to investor and business challenges/opportunities that intersect with broad societal trends and/or government policy.

We also apply our experience addressing these challenges in the private sector to deliver collaborative, practical and implementable solutions that help chip away at cross-sector problems where we have something to add.

Here is some of our work.  See more projects:  Thought Leadership 

After diving deep into horizontal drilling and fracing economics for a private-equity owned energy technology client at the start of the shale revolution, we translated the biochemistry, geology and petroleum engineering jargon that we had to unpeel into a simpler lexicon to help business, finance and policy leaders frame emerging but poorly understood investment opportunities and risk driven by water-energy linkages across the full spectrum of fossil-based and alternative sources of electric power and transportation fuel.     

Author:  “The Water-Energy Nexus: Adding Water to the Energy Agenda”, published by The World Policy Institute. See full policy paper 
|  See slides from launch event at Bloomberg Headquarters

“The Water Energy Nexus”, at New America. Watch video

Shell:  Long-term strategy scenario planning roundtable.

“Hydraulic Fracturing: Business and Finance Perspectives”, at Yale.  

Contributor:  “Guidelines for Integrating Alternative Jet Fuel into the Airport Setting”, published by the National Academy of Sciences (Transportation Research Board, Airport Cooperative Research Program).

Contributor:  “Assessing Opportunities for Alternative Fuel Distribution Programs”, published by the National Academy of Sciences (Transportation Research Board, Airport Cooperative Research Program).