Leadership
2022 Board of Directors

Kelly Adighije
Board Member
Vice President
Baumann Consulting

Royce Cunningham
Board Member
Owner
Architectural Services Group

Michelle McClendon
Board Member, ED&I Chair
Project Executive
Gilbane Building Co.

Jon Cheffings
Strategic Advisor
EVP Strategy
SCC&M

Amaris Alanis-Ribeiro
Board Member
Director
North Park Village Nature Center

Annalise Dum
Secretary
Vice President, Sustainability
JLL

John Mlade
Vice Chair
Director, Sustainable Environments
Wight & Co.

Kevin Augustyn
Board Member
Senior Vice President
DBRS Morningstar

Isaac Elnecave
Board Member
Policy Specialist
Phius

Elena Savona
Treasurer
Director, Federal Partnerships
Elevate

Kathia Benitez
Ex-Officio Chair
Sustainability, Compliance Director
Discover Financial Services

Keara Fanning
Board Chair
Senior Director, ESG
Link Logistics Real Estate

Sarah Wood
Governance Chair
Senior Sustainability Specialist
Jacobs
2022 Auxiliary Board
The Auxiliary Board is led by emerging professionals who advance Illinois Green's mission. Learn more about their work.

Kate Anderson
Account Executive
Johnson Controls

Natalia Gardocki
Program Marketing Manager
Walker-Miller Energy Services

Justin Johnson
Energy Field Specialist
Evergreen Consulting Group

Lauren McManus
Senior Analyst
Clareo

Jackson Sattell
Senior Counsel, Link Logistics Real Estate

Laura Turner
Senior Analyst
Waypoint Energy

Ian Champ
Senior Energy Analyst
AECOM

Kate Holly
Sustainability Coordinator
Leading Edge

Brian Keller
Associate
Waypoint Energy

Elias Menninger
Associate Consultant, SECC
WSP

Prachi Sharma
Project Manager
Slipstream

Miranda Wright
Project Architect
Hartshorne Plunkard Architects

Bingxu Chen
Deals Advisory Senior Associate
PwC

Adam Householder
Energy & Sustainability Manager
JLL

Ivy Klee
Resource Management
Coordinator, Kane County

Brandon Pieczynski
Commissioning & Energy Engineer
Baumann Consulting

Amelia Sisk
Associate Program Manager
Resource Innovations

Ayush Chobe
Graduate Student
University of Illinois, Chicago

Owen Hull
Development Manager
Lendlease

David Lopez
Senior Sustainability Assistant
Deloitte

Luke Rossi
Senior Associate
Modern Energy

Cameron Small
Mechanical Engineer
Salas O'Brien
2022 Programs Committee
The Programs Committee organizes and implements education events for our community. Learn more about their work.

Jill Ackermann
Project Manager, Sustainability
JLL

Anjana Dalal
Principal
ASD Consulting, Inc.

Damon Henrikson
Director of Marketing
Made to Measure

Daniel Moring
Project Manager
Slipstream

Aditya Singh
Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Student
Illinois Tech

Jennifer Alvarado
Senior Program Manager
People's Gas Energy Efficiency

Thomas Dietz
Associate
JNKA Architects

Jason LaFleur
Senior Manager
GTI

Iwona Mroz
Architectural & Landscape Designer, Self-employed

Rachel Starr
Intern Architect
HUSArchitecture

Wayne Beals
Realtor & Managing Broker
The Beals Group

Allen Dusault
Senior Program Manager
Franklin Energy

Chelsea Lamar
Sustainability Manager
Reyes Holdings

Janet Olson
Principal
G|R|E|C Architects

Alex Tompsidis
President
AT Mechanical

Brian Burgess
Field Services Team Leader
Earthwise Environmental

Mohammad Heidarinejad
Assistant Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology

Jason Meyering
Architect
Jason Meyering Architecture

Sophia Seol
Researcher
Slipstream
Advisory Board
The Illinois Green Alliance Strategic Plan Advisory Board provides technical and strategic guidance as we develop programming and educational offerings and recommends initiatives and partnerships that will help us achieve the plan's goals.
The Advisory board members are approved by the Illinois Green Alliance's Board of Directors and serve renewable one-year terms.
Arathi Gowda, SOM
Booker Vance, Elevate Energy
Marge Anderson, Slipstream
Nootan Bharani, Place Lab at University of Chicago
Jenny Carney, WSP
Joyce Coffee, Climate Resilience Consulting
Sandra Henry, Elevate Energy
Ryan Dick, WSP
Becky Stanfield, Energy Foundation
Lois Vitt Sale, Wight and Company
Karen Weigert, Slipstream
Emma Cox, McDonald's