Professional Bio
I serve as Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Eversource Energy (NYSE: ES), a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor’s 500 energy company based in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire that operates New England’s largest energy delivery system. I have been with Eversource since 1996, following 8 years in private practice as a labor & employment attorney and litigator for the Hartford, CT-based law firm Robinson & Cole.
I lead a team of attorneys responsible for advising and representing the company on a broad range of legal matters, including labor and employment law, employee benefits, state and federal regulatory and administrative law, dispute prevention and resolution, corporate governance, finance, and securities law. As CCO, I oversee Eversource’s enterprise-wide corporate compliance program.
I have championed the adoption of innovative strategies across the Eversource enterprise. My initiatives include the integration of dispute prevention and stepped ADR clauses in commercial contracts, early case evaluation protocols, and the strategic use of dispute prevention and ADR mechanisms to resolve issues before they escalate into litigation. I believe there are often business solutions and other creative resolutions to business-related conflicts that dispute prevention and alternative dispute resolution approaches and techniques enable, particularly with established ongoing business counterparties, that are simply missed in traditional win-lose civil litigation.
I am deeply engaged in the broader ADR community, and am a longtime member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR)—an independent nonprofit organization that promotes the prevention and resolution of conflict to better enable the pursuit of purpose—co-chair CPR’s Dispute Prevention Committee, and am a past chair of its Energy, Oil & Gas Committee. I am also a member of the AAA ICDR Energy Advisory Committee, and am part of the first cohort of invited members to join the Association of Commercial and Transactional ADR Professionals (ACT-ADR), where I lead its newly established Dispute Prevention Working Group.
In partnership with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and in collaboration with ACC’s Litigation Network, I am spearheading the formation of the ACC’s first ADR Subcommittee, aimed at promoting best practices and innovation in corporate dispute management.
My professional affiliations include active roles on the ADR Committees of the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Energy Bar Associations (EBA), and I previously co-chaired the EBA’s ADR Committee. I served as a member of the Connecticut Commission on Civil Court ADR, where I contributed to recommendations for enhancing the state judiciary’s ADR programs.
I am a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BA in Legal Studies, and a graduate, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
