NYU Stern School’s Westchester/Fairfield Alumni Chapter is planning an event on “sustainable investing- making an impact” on the evening of 5 October at the Westchester Renaissance Hotel in West Harrison NY as part of the Chapter’s speaker series to keep NYU alumni up-to-date on what is new in the financial sector.  The panelist will include: [...]

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The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) President Lee Solomon has asked GPA President John L. Cusack to lead a NJBPU Working Group of a dozen leading energy technology experts from industry, academia, utilities, entrepreneurs, the investment sector and government to review the role and near-term viability of innovative energy technology development and commercialization, and the role of business incubators, in fostering the rapid commercialization of emerging energy solutions in New Jersey, and thus provide input to the next revision of the New Jersey Energy Master Plan.

Gifford Park Associates is proud to announce that Ms. Kay Garkusha has joined GPA as Managing Director, and will be assisting GPA on a consulting basis, including a working on a market needs assessment and revised business plan project for a not-for-profit technology verification organization. read more

GPA’s President, Mr. John L. Cusack, has just completed teaching this Spring a course “Introduction to Renewable Energy” on behalf of the Environmental Studies Department at Purchase College, part of the SUNY university system. The students enjoyed the insights of the thirty years of experience Mr. Cusack has in evaluating new energy and environmental technologies, [...]

The Board of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT) announced that it has elected John L. Cusack as Chair of the NJCAT Board. NJCAT is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing energy and environmental innovators with the regulatory, commercial, and technological assistance required to bring their ideas to market successfully. NJCAT identifies, evaluates, [...]

Gifford Park Associates was asked by a key client to attend on their behalf the Financial Times “Investing for a Sustainable Future” Conference in New York City. The event was an excellent opportunity to hear excellent presentations on how the investment is moving sustainability and corporate responsibility issues out of narrow niche markets into the [...]

In early February, Mr. Cusack traveled to Oxford England to give a presentation to the senior management of a well-known sustainability consulting firm on “Sustainability Services for the Financial Services Sector”, which described the emerging opportunities and needs for integrating sustainability into the financial service industry’s operations and investment management decision-making processes, and making sustainability [...]

Marylhurst University asked GPA’s John L. Cusack to teach a section of an online course this past Fall entitled “Finance and Sustainability” as part of the University’s MBA in Sustainable Management Program. While Marylhurst is based in Portland Oregon, the students in Mr. Cusack’s course have ranged from Boston to Key West, from Seattle to [...]