Most recently, I served as Head of Energy at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where my incredible team and I worked to turn energy from a back-office utility issue into a strategic platform for decarbonization, resilience, infrastructure planning, and public benefit across the agency's portfolio and development work. I helped build the internal foundation for a more ambitious energy function — one that connected building performance, city policy, utility coordination, capital planning, and neighborhood-scale infrastructure.
That effort went well beyond individual projects. It meant creating the frameworks, relationships, and strategies that allowed those projects to exist in the first place — including portfolio-wide energy and emissions planning that linked modernization, electrification, and Local Law 97 compliance to real capital decisions. I also played a major role in advancing early thermal energy network concepts, including the idea that public assets could serve as anchor loads for neighborhood-scale ambient loop systems in places like Sunset Park and Hunts Point. Work at that scale required building alignment across institutions, agencies, utilities, consultants, and public stakeholders — treating energy planning as coordinated infrastructure rather than isolated facility management.
What I bring to OK Concepts is that same orientation: clear thinking, technical rigor, and the ability to translate complex energy challenges into actionable pathways. OK Concepts is built on the belief that strong energy strategy should make complex systems understandable, connect technical analysis to real decisions, respect organizational constraints, and create a credible path from vision to implementation.
