Maria S. Jelescu Dreyfus is the Founder and CEO of Ardinall Investment Management, which focuses on sustainable investing, electrification, digitization, and resilient infrastructure. Before Ardinall, she spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as a portfolio manager and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.

Her directorship roles include Pioneer Natural Resources, Nabors Energy Transition Corp., Cadiz Inc. and CDPQ, one of Canada’s largest pension plans. Maria is the Vice Chair of the advisory board of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and Co-chair of its Women in Energy program.

Maria has held her CFA since 2004, and has a dual degree in economics and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.