About CSB
Meet the Team
Led by Tensie Whelan, the CSB team is comprised of driven professionals with diverse backgrounds in corporate strategy, research, education, and engagement.
Tensie Whelan, Director
Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Founding Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.
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Anna Bailey Doyle, Administrative Aide
Anna Bailey Doyle is the Administrative Aide at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she assists the CSB team on logistics, communications, events, and program management.
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Chander Balakumar, Associate Research Scholar
Chander Balakumar is an Associate Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where he is researching how private equity management practices are driving both unsustainable and sustainable practices with a focus toward developing a set of principles to guide value creation vs value extraction.
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Divya Chandra, Associate Research Scholar
Divya Chandra is an Associate Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and is developing and executing monetization methods used in the application of the ROSI methodology across a diverse set of Industries.
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Alyssa DeFalco, Assistant Director
Alyssa DeFalco (NYU ‘19) is the Assistant Director at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she manages the everyday workflows of CSB, helps execute thought leadership programming, and prepares communication materials and strategy. Alyssa is currently an MBA Candidate at NYU Stern.
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Elyse Douglas, Senior Research Scholar
Elyse Douglas (Stern ‘83) is a Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and has responsibility for monetization methods used in the application of the ROSI methodology.
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Chisara Ehiemere, Senior Research Lead of Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI)
Chisara Ehiemere is the Senior Research Lead, Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI™) at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she oversees our ROSI methodology research partnerships with companies.
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Marianna Koval, Director of Invest NYC SDG Initiative
Marianna Koval is the Director of the Invest NYC SDG Initiative at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she manages a team engaging in the private sector to drive financing toward creating a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient New York City. Using the UN SDGs as a guiding framework, the team is developing investable projects to advance NYC’s sustainability goals in waste, food and health, climate resilience, renewable energy, the built environment, and sustainable mobility.
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Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Scholar of Marketing & Corporate Outreach
Randi Kronthal-Sacco (Stern ‘83) is a Senior Scholar of Marketing and Corporate Outreach at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Ms. Kronthal-Sacco leads CSB’s research in the areas of marketing and brands including the Sustainability Market Share Index™ and is responsible for corporate outreach.
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Wythe Marschall, Senior Research Project Manager of Invest NYC SDG Initiative
Wythe Marschall is the Senior Research Project Manager in food and health for the Invest NYC SDG Initiative at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where he works to improve the resilience of NYC’s food system, in part by encouraging growth of socially just urban farms.
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Carleigh McFarlane, Associate Director of Invest NYC SDG Initiative
Carleigh McFarlane is the Associate Director of the Invest NYC SDG Initiative at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she manages day-to-day operations and develops strategy for the initiative which works to engage the private sector to finance projects aimed at creating a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient New York City. She brings a background in strategic communications, logistics, and business development.
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Maggie Paruta, Assistant Research Scholar
Maggie Paruta (Stern '20) is an Assistant Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she supports CSB's Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) research and company engagements.
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Rithu Raman, Associate Research Scholar
Rithu Raman (Stern '13) is a Associate Research Scholar within the Corporate Research & Engagement team at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business where she manages and executes ROSI collaborations with companies across a variety of industries.
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Nicholas Fabbroni, ROSI Research Assistant
Nick (BS '22) supports CSB's ongoing Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI™) research and work with corporate and non-profit partners.
Alan Fang, Invest NYC SDG Research Assistant
Alan (BA '25) supports the Invest NYC SDG Initiative to develop process for projects focused on topics including the built environment, food and health, waste, renewable energy, sustainable mobility, and climate resilience.
Lia Feng, Private Equity Research Assistant
Lia (MS '23) assists in an on-going effort to examine the current literature on private equity (PE) management practices in the context of value creation and extraction
Kenny Gould, Student Researcher, Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI)
Kenny (EMBA '23) supports the CSB research team on its Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) methodology, which helps companies to identify material sustainability strategies and monetize financial benefits accrued from the practices.
Lucie Holliday, Teaching Fellow for Sustainability for Competitive Advantage
Lucie (MBA '22) supports Professor Whelan during the undergraduate section of Sustainability for Competitive Advantage
Saurabh Kumar, Salesforce Student Assistant
Saurabh (BS '24) supports database and contact information management critical for CSB’s internal and external stakeholder engagement.
Hurkan Kurtoglu, Sustainability Marketing Research Assistant
Hurkan (MBA '22) works on the Sustainable Market Share Index with IRI data to analyze and report on actual CPG (consumer packaged goods) sustainable purchases at retail in the year of a pandemic.
Lauren Marx, Private Equity Research Assistant
Lia (BS '22) assists in an on-going effort to examine the current literature on private equity (PE) management practices in the context of value creation and extraction
Ran Mo, Women in Sustainable Finance Program Assistant
Ran (MBA '22) supports CSB with the development and launch of the a fellowship program for women in sustainable finance through research, stakeholder engagement, and project management.
Jean Rafaelian, Sustainability Marketing Research Assistant
Jean (MBA '22) works on the Sustainable Market Share Index with IRI data to analyze and report on actual CPG (consumer packaged goods) sustainable purchases at retail in the year of a pandemic.
Max Wang, Invest NYC SDG Research Assistant
Max (MS '23) supports the Invest NYC SDG Initiative to advance different projects related to renewable energies and energy efficiency as we work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from NYC’s one million buildings, which create nearly 70 percent of the City’s GHG emissions, and help NYC achieve 80 percent reduction of carbon by 2050.
Stella Yao, Student Researcher, Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI)
Stella (MPA '22) supports the CSB research team on its Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) methodology, which helps companies to identify material sustainability strategies and monetize financial benefits accrued from the practices.