Hartford Business Journal: Esty Relaunches as Viridis Strategy Group
Esty’s ex-CT consultancy relaunches without him
Hartford Business Journal Online
Brad Kane
Dan Esty's former New Haven environmental consulting firm relaunched as a Washington D.C. company on Thursday. Esty departed a year ago to become commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection.
Former Esty Environmental Partners -- now Viridis Strategy Group -- says it will rely on Esty's previous business model of helping corporations and other clients realize the business savings of promoting environmental sustainability at their facilities. Viridis' other offices are in Boston, New York and Sydney, Australia.
Canadian angel lead investor John McCall MacBain, chairman of the European Climate Foundation, is backing the reorganized company. McCall MacBain's other investments include a Liberian company generating biomass electricity; a U.S. tea company; and an African equity firm...
