Raphael (Phel) started his career in IT Consulting at Accenture, learning about business, technology, and successful people and project management. He left Accenture to pursue how two passions at Michigan: environmental issues and business. As a graduate student, he developed a passion for waste reduction while pushing hard for waste reduction on campus. He now wants to contribute to making the world a better, less wasteful place.

Rich believes that the long-term viability of our society depends on immediately developing innovative and profitable business strategies creating zero or positive environmental and human health impacts. He has a clear desire to find business solutions to challenging sustainability problems. Rich holds an MBA/MS from the University of Michigan, and MA in Survey Research from the University of Connecticut, and a B.S. in Communication from Cornell.