Our Team
Senior Strategists


Tamara Gracon, M.B.A.

  • A tech savvy executive with C-level leadership experience in strategy, process improvement, technology selection and deployment, along with global project management, for a $26B revenue company
    Deep executive experience identifying and resolving complex issues in competitive market strategy, operations, tax, transfer pricing (TP), supply chain, and valuation
    Fluent in Lean Six Sigma principles as applied to strategic change management
    Recognized leadership in advancing DEI&B concerns and opportunities
    Working with companies to embrace ESG to drive profit and impact
  • Member, National Board of Directors and San Francisco Chapter President, Private Directors Association
  • Advisory Board, How Women Lead Silicon Valley
  • CEO and Founder, TBG Consulting LLC, a strategy and change management consultancy
  • Management Consultant, The Consultants Collective
  • Managing Director – Tax, KPMG LLP, leading their Economic and Valuation Services (EVS), advising clients from early stage start-ups to Fortune 100 executive teams
  • Founding Limited Partner, How Women Invest, a gender lens fund with 90% female (and 54% women of color) investors
  • Senior Associate, Wheat First Union, Investment Banking
  • Legislative Staff, Congressman John Ensign
  • Management Program - Oxford University, Trinity College
  • M.B.A., Finance, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
  • B.A., Political Science and Economics, University of Colorado Boulder


Peter Hess, M.A.

  • 30+ years of expertise in conceiving, planning, and leading corporate transformation initiatives
  • Senior Consultant, Slalom and the North Highland Company in conceiving and executing large global organizational projects including in Enterprise Performance Management
  • Owner, Change Partners, Inc., overseeing all facets of organizational effectiveness consulting
  • Director, Bayer Corporation, and Senior Manager, Nabisco designing and implementing organizational effectiveness, planning, and learning initiatives
  • Facilitated and consulted to over 30 union/management teams on workforce development and reskilling, AT&T Alliance For Employee Growth
    Developed a “Culture of Sustainability” offering
  • Fostered stakeholder consensus via the Rutgers University Climate and Environmental Change Initiative
  • Advanced a firm’s net-zero pledge by conceiving and implementing an internal “carbon tax”
  • Empowered the swift integration of two pharmaceutical businesses
  • Helped create a new North American home design business
  • Program Chair, New Jersey Organization Development Network
  • Board Member, Human Resource Planning Group and Philadelphia Region OD Network
  • Committees - American Society of Training and Development, National Society of Performance and Instruction
  • Assessor, "Baldrige Quality Award”, Quality New Jersey
  • Instructor: Columbia University, NYU
  • M.A., Human Resource Mgmt. and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
  • B.A., Swarthmore College


Eliza Erskine, M.A.

  • Principal, Green Buoy Consulting, providing ESG program design and implementation services to high-growth companies: ESG strategies, carbon footprint analysis, net zero strategy, and B Corp certification conformance
  • Speaker at various industry events, such as Terra.do, 500 Startups, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, and the Connecticut Sustainable Business Council
  • Subject Matter Advisor, Good.Lab; Executive in Residence, The Fashioneering Lab
  • ESG Lead, Kara, focused on supporting venture capital investors and technology companies in streamlining their climate disclosures and ESG reporting processes
  • Business Specialist, Federated Investors, providing operational and development support for local government investment pools valued at $76B.
    Created project and test plans for 25 issues annually; produced a statistics dashboard for reporting
  • Client Service, Massachusetts Municipal Depository Trust, demonstrating operational and implementation processes for current clients, including participating in business development and project planning
  • Community Business Outreach Coordinator, New Generation Energy, responsible for the local+GREEN program to increase business owner and government engagement
  • At MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International):
    As ESG Client Services Associate, conducted training on multiple MSCI products; advanced internal projects while maintaining over 350 relationships
    As ESG Analyst, covered the ESG metrics of approximately 350 small market capitalization companies to evaluate risk exposure, presented developing issues to the ESG Small Cap team, and provided feedback and edits on over 100 company profiles.
  • M.A., Sustainability and Environment Management, Harvard University (Extension School)
  • B.B.A, Questrom School of Business – Entrepreneurial Studies & Business Law, Boston University


Matt Karnes, M.B.A./C.P.A.

  • Over twenty-five years of diverse finance and accounting experience, serving clients with independent, institutional quality financial research and analysis
  • Managing Director, GreenWave Advisors, providing comprehensive research and financial analysis for the cannabis industry
    Produces fundamental intel throughout the cannabis ecosystem – including detailed, comprehensive analysis and transparent due diligence reports for fully defendable financial forecasts
  • Analyst, SG Cowen, covering satellite communications
  • Vice President, Equity Analyst (Consumer Internet) at Bear Stearns & Co., where his team was consistently recognized by Institutional Investor as an “All America Research Team”
  • As a sell side equity analyst, authored or and  co-authored numerous industry research reports including for Google, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio, DIRECTV and EchoStar Communications, among others
  • Equity Analyst, Wachovia Securities, covering radio broadcasting and cable television
  • Held various finance and accounting positions at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, and Texaco
    Executed client engagements throughout the U.S., Europe, The Caribbean, and Asia
  • At Chase Manhattan, responsible for implementing corporate accounting policies on commodity, interest rate, and foreign currency derivative products
  • Series 7 and 63 licensee, FINRA/SIPC
  • M.B.A., Gabelli School of Business – Fordham University
  • B.S., Business Administration (Accounting and Finance), Miami University (OH)


Yan Hai, M.A.Sc

  • Over 18 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, cannabis, medical device, and natural health products industries including scientific and quality management contributions to some 300 projects to date
  • Knowledge and extensive experience within a range of quality and compliance matters including cGxPs, FDA and Health Canada drug, cannabis and medical device regulatory standards, and ISO frameworks
  • A track record of success improving quality systems, interpreting new regulatory requirements, fixing gaps between quality systems and regulatory standards, implementing CAPA systems, and advancing quality processes to ensure compliance and cost effectiveness
  • Held a variety of roles with global pharmaceutical leaders including Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis, Taro Pharmaceuticals and Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • President and Principal Consultant – Innova Medipharm, Inc., specializing in regulatory compliance, quality assurance, and cGxPs services for the cannabis and pharmaceutical industries
  • Client engagements include inspection readiness, auditing, SOP development, GMP and ISO qualification, quality management system alignment, deviation investigation, gap assessment and change control programs
  • M.A.Sc, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry & Biomaterials/Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
  • B.Eng., Chemical Engineering, Tongji University, China