Michelle Murcia

CFO

Michelle has more than 25 years of finance, accounting and administration experience in large companies, start-ups, public, private and not-for-profit corporations. She has worked as a C-level consultant to early-stage, start-up companies as well as serving as CFO and assisting with the development of capital access strategies. Her wide ranging venture investment experience spans early stage, Series B, C and later, and venture fund (CVC) investments, in multiple industries.

Michelle’s extensive experience with energy and energy technologies – Maxwell Technologies, Battelle, Q2Power Technologies, and as launch CEO for Ohio Advanced Energy Economy and Ohio Advanced Energy Economy Institute.

Eli Flournoy

Board Member

Eli is a social impact investor and co-founder of Sugarbush Valley LLC – A Social Enterprise Development Company, based in Athens, Ohio. On the New Resource Solutions board, Eli will tap into his background in environmentally sustainable economic development to connect non-profits and philosophically motivated for-profits and individuals to mission-aligned investment opportunities in renewable energy projects.

For more than a decade Eli has served as a director and co-founder of the Sugar Bush Foundation, a supporting organization to the Ohio University Foundation. The Sugar Bush Foundation works with Ohio University and local communities to improve the quality of life in Appalachian Ohio by encouraging civic engagement and by fostering sustainable environmental and socioeconomic development, funding jointly-designed projects in the areas of zero waste, environmental protection and restoration, and sustainable development.

Eli is also a veteran journalist, living in Atlanta and consulting for international news media companies following a 24-year career at CNN. An avowed tree-hugger, Eli is an active member of Environment Georgia and the Arbor Day Foundation, and practices sustainable forestry with his family timber businesses in Texas and Ohio. Eli holds a BA in Political Science from Indiana University and MBA from Ohio University (August 2017).