Advisory Board

James P. “Bud” McCourt, a long-time resident of Massachusetts began his career with Asbestos Workers Local 6, Boston, MA as an apprentice in 1976. He received his mechanic’s card four years later in 1980. His leadership abilities led to his election as local union President, a position he held from 1985 to 1987. He also served as Business Agent for his local union prior to his election to the top position as Business Manager. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a trustee on the Local 6 Health and Welfare and Pension boards. Mr. McCourt was elected by the delegates at the Union’s 1997 General Convention to serve as International Vice President of the New York-New England States Conference. In 2001, Mr. McCourt was elected by the General Executive Board to serve as General Secretary-Treasurer. He also served as a trustee on the Heat & Frost Insulators Staff and Local Union Officers’ Pension Plans from 2001 to 2007. He then served as a trustee on the National Asbestos Workers Pension and Medical Plans from 2008 to 2020. Upon the retirement of General President James A. Grogan in 2015, Mr. McCourt was elected by the General Executive Board to the position of General President. He officially retired in 2020

Joseph R. Nolan Jr. is the Chief Executive Officer of Eversource Energy, responsible for overseeing Eversource Energy’s Customer Care and Corporate Relations organizations. This includes regulatory relations at the local, state and federal levels; communication services; media relations; community relations, customer service operations and strategy; and energy efficiency programs. In 2015, Joe also led the company’s comprehensive brand change strategy and three-state rollout, bringing six operating companies together as one customer-facing brand: Eversource.

Joe joined Eversource in 1985 and served in various customer service and government affairs positions before becoming vice president of government affairs in 1999. In this role, Joe was instrumental in obtaining support for company policies and positions from the state legislature, federal agencies and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy.

Joe has also served as vice president of Government Affairs, where he successfully directed the internal and external communications of electric restructuring and the sale of generating plants. After, he was responsible for all customer service in addition to Corporate Relations as senior vice president, Customer & Corporate Relations.

In addition to his Eversource responsibilities, Joe serves on the boards of directors of the New England Council, Boston Children’s Hospital Trust, Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund and the Camp Harbor View Foundation and the advisory board of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation. Joe is also active in the communications and government relations committees of the Edison Electric Institute and the American Gas Association.

Joe holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Boston College. Joe and his wife Therese reside in Belmont, Massachusetts, with their four daughters Olivia, Hannah, Isabelle and Claudia.

Michael B. Greenwald serves as the Senior Vice President of Tiedemann Advisors.

Greenwald is also a Belfer Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Greenwald previously worked in senior roles within the United States Treasury in national security positions working with Africa, Europe, and serving as a financial diplomat in the Middle East spanning the tenures of U.S. Treasury Secretaries Geithner, Lew and Mnuchin. Most recently, he served as the first United States Treasury Attaché appointed to Qatar and Kuwait and opened the Treasury Department’s office in Doha, Qatar in August 2015. Prior to that role, Greenwald served as the United States Treasury Policy Advisor for Europe. In this role, he was appointed as the head of the United States Delegation to the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism before the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France and traveled to over 20 countries on behalf of the U.S. Treasury.

Greenwald is Deputy Executive Director of North America Trilateral Commission. Greenwald serves as the Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of the Atlantic Council, Fred Kempe, and serves as the Special Advisor on International Affairs to the President and CEO of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Laurie Glimcher. Greenwald is an Adjunct Professor at The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He serves on the United States Holocaust Museum Next Generation Board, Aspen Institute Vanguard Society of Fellows, Co-Chairman of Atlantic Council Counselor Program, Susan G. Komen Foundation Board, and Boston University School of Law Dean Advisory Board. He is a board advisor to HALO Maritime Defense Systems, a marine engineering technology company and provider of advanced engineered solutions for the security needs of strategic maritime assets. Greenwald earned a Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law, a Master of Arts from Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from George Washington University where he competed nationally playing four years of Division I Squash. He is a graduate of St. Marks School in Southborough, Massachusetts and Fessenden School in Newton, Massachusetts.

Bud McCourt

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Jacques Loveall

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Dr. Lou Moret

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Jim Kottage

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John Jarger

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Joseph Nolan

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Kevin P. Stringer

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Mayor John Agenbroad

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Michael B. Greenwald

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Thomas P. O’Neill, III

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Warren A. Henderson

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