Hidden Talents
Impressive Accomplishments
Motivations
First Work Experiences
Double Trouble
100

This cohort member composes and produces music.

Who is James Larsen?

100

This Greentown Labs team member channeled her inner grandma during lockdown and crocheted multiple blankets.

Who is Marinna Teixeira?

100

This Corporate Mentor is motivated to build environmentally friendly energy systems.

Who is John Westerman?

100

This Corporate Mentor's first work experience was as a bus boy at Lonestar Steakhouse & Saloon – it was a humbling experience and kids eat free nights were always the worst.

Who is Chris Keefe?

100

These two people (a cohort member and a Greentown Labs team member) are motivated to work towards leaving our planet a habitable and better place for the children of future generations.

Who are Paul Hines and Michela Grunebaum?

200

This cohort member is always able to find an empty table at crowded Boston coffee shops.

Who is Erin Looney?

200

This cohort member won "employee of the week" at his first job as an ice cream scooper at Boathouse Burgers. He often got in trouble because his scoops were overly generous.

Who is Scott Peever?

200

This member of the Schneider Electric team is motivated by the beauty of the ocean. Bonus fact: this may have been influenced by his first work experience as a Navy's Platoon Commander!

Who is Edison Almeida?

200

This cohort member's first job was washing dishes at the keg. Bonus fact: this might have influenced his hidden talent of putting way too much effort into dinner parties!

Who is Ryan Brown?

200

One of these Corporate Mentors needs minimal sleep, while the other has an unparalleled ability to fall asleep–on a plane before takeoff, during a car ride, while getting tattooed, essentially anywhere!

Who are John Westerman (minimal sleep) and Chris Keefe (falls asleep everywhere)?

300

This Corporate Mentor is a photography enthusiast and does photoshoots for his friends and family.

Who is Divyasom Malhan?

300

This member of the Greentown Labs team has seen every episode of Mad Men at least 4 times.

Who is Katie Geusz?

300

This Corporate Mentor is motivated by both the people he works with and the customers that Schneider is serving.

Who is Scott Higgins?

300

This Greentown Labs team member's first work experience was canvassing door to door for a Cambridge City Counselor election campaign.

Who is Michela Grunebaum?

300

These two people (a Corporate Mentor and a cohort member) started their careers as gas station attendants!

Who are Jean-Luc Meyer and Ian Mathews?

400

This cohort member is a surfer.

Who is Ian Mathews?

400

This cohort member is a pretty strong ping-pong player, but he can also get dangerously competitive...

Who is Hendrik van Nievelt?

400

This cohort member has several motivations: helping to create a sustainable future, solving challenges, and ice cream!

Who is Erin Looney?

400

This cohort member's first job was working as a cashier at Toys R Us (a job from which he got fired). Bonus fact: this may have influenced his hidden talent of building robotic fire-breathing lake monsters (which unfortunately don't actually work–his kids were quick to remind him).

Who is Paul Hines?

400

These two Corporate Mentors should move to Italy – one of them makes his own wine; the other, his own pizza!

Who are Mike Maiello (wine) and Simon Zhang (pizza)?