Twenty-five years running P&L in the hardest sector to decarbonize.

I'm the founder of ESG Advising LLC. Before this, I spent 25 years in oil & gas — as Chief Operating Officer and a board director of Century Exploration New Orleans and RAAM Global Energy, then as President of Upstream Exploration LLC, an independent exploration and production company I built out of a distressed-asset restructuring in 2016 and led to a sale to a NYSE-listed buyer in 2019, delivering an 18% return to investors while protecting jobs and bonuses for the 25-person team who got the company there.

At Century/RAAM I managed up to $150 million a year in capital and operating budgets, ran the company's insurance and risk programs, and negotiated the contracts that kept operations funded. I led a Gulf Coast expansion that grew production 42%, delivered 110% return on capital employed, and added $4 million a month in EBITDA while cutting unit costs 43% and G&A 24%. When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf of Mexico, I ran the disaster recovery effort and negotiated a roughly $100 million claims settlement with Lloyd's of London — before providing proof of loss, on the strength of relationships built over years, not a legal formality.

That operating background is what ESG Advising is built on: I know what it's like to be on the other side of a disclosure request, a materiality assessment, or a stakeholder engagement plan, because I used to be the one fielding them. I'm also an Associate with Columbia University's Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program, where I teach the capstone course — the same negotiation methodology I bring to materiality workshops, disclosure sign-off, and board-level ESG governance conversations with clients.

I also sit on the program's AI Committee, where I build applied AI tools for teaching and operations — including GradeFlow, an AI-assisted grading system integrated with Canvas, and an agentic policy-monitoring pipeline that drafts compliance updates for human review. That same instinct — using AI to make disclosure and reporting work faster without cutting corners — is how I approach ESG data, materiality, and reporting workflows for clients.

Practical, credible ESG — work that holds up in the boardroom, in diligence, and in the real world.