Join us for a lunchtime panel with Wharton alumni Rishika Ghosh, Hannah Lewis, and Julia Kurnik, who will discuss careers in ESG. MBA students and undergraduates will have the opportunity to hear about paths to careers across Environmental, Social, and Governance sectors, and ask questions during Q&A. This event is co-presented by MBA Career Management, Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity, and the Wharton MBA Impact Communities, and will be moderated by Jennifer Savoie, Senior Associate Director of MBA Career Management. Registration is required but does not ensure a seat. Lunch will be provided on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Rishika Ghosh is the Senior Manager for Partnerships and Clean Energy Products at the Philadelphia Green Capital Corp. (PGCC), the green bank affiliate of the Philadelphia Energy Authority (PEA). She supports new program development and growth initiatives for the green bank, with a focus on connecting energy projects to capital across Southeast Pennsylvania. She joined PGCC in 2021 as the second employee to launch the organization's first four financing products and programs. Rishika has a background in renewable energy, wind engineering, and program management. She holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S and an M.Eng in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
Julia Kurnik is the Senior Director, Innovation Start-Ups at WWF, where she works to identify innovative trends and evolving global market issues and to strategize and develop entrepreneurial solutions to major sustainability concerns. In her career, Julia has founded her own urban, soilless farming system, advised numerous young and growing companies on business strategy and growth plans, spent four years in research, including as the Director of Research and Policy at the National Women’s Business Council, and spent nearly two years on the first Obama campaign. For the past four years, Julia has worked as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Business School. Julia holds an SB from MIT, an MBA in entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MPA focused on sustainability from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Hannah Lewis is the Chief of Staff at Ardent Process Technologies (Ardent), where she plays a pivotal role in advancing the company's mission to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries in her work across finance, operations, and strategy. An accomplished top-tier investment banker, venture capitalist, and early-stage startup operator and Wharton MBA with experience across climate tech verticals, Hannah has worked with companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. As an investment banker at Evercore, Hannah advised C-suite executives on multi-billion-dollar transactions with a focus on the climate tech sector. Prior to this, she led the energy and sustainability practice at Village Capital, where she both advised and invested in early-stage climate tech startups. Her diverse experience also includes roles in management consulting, gender lens investing, family office support, and international development. Hannah holds an MBA (Finance, Honors) from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Wesleyan University.
Jennifer Savoie advises MBA students as a Senior Associate Director in MBA Career Management at the Wharton School. Her focus areas include entrepreneurship, startups, as well as all areas within social impact.