Senior Advisors
Baye Adofo-Wilson
Senior Advisor
Baye is a lawyer, consultant and real estate developer with expertise in arts and cultural districts, sustainability and mixed-income housing. He focuses his law practice on New Jersey Redevelopment Law and Opportunity Zones. At Seneca Communities, Baye oversees the firm’s development efforts with a focus on residential and mixed-use projects in urban communities. Baye was formerly Deputy Mayor/Director of Economic and Housing Development (EHD) for Newark, NJ and during his tenure, Newark had an unprecedented $2+ billion of commercial and residential development.Baye earned a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Graduate School of Design, a Master of Arts in Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University-Newark.
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Pamela Rothenberg
Senior Advisor
Pamela Rothenberg is a partner in the Washington, DC office of the law firm of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP where she practices in the areas of commercial real estate, business and entrepreneurship. In her real estate practice, she routinely handles the acquisition, financing and development of commercial multifamily properties, office buildings, and large scale mixed-use developments. Pam is a change agent and founded her firm’s Impact Business that works at the cutting edge of the rapidly growing Impact Economy. Pam’s mission is to harness the positive power of business to generate revenue and solve endemic social problems. In 2015 and 2018, the firm’s Impact Business Group was short listed for Financial Times Innovation awards. In June of 2018, the firm’s Impact Business Group was part of a team that won the inaugural Grunin Prize for Innovation from NYU Law for the development and documentation of a new equity investment structure. Pam serves on a number of boards, including the Board of Directors for the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. and Shelters to Shutters, the Advisory Board for the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland and the Board of Governors for the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness. Pam is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a Trustee for the Federal City Council. Pam received her B.A. in History from Tufts University; summa cum laude, and her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.
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Michael A. Allegretti
Senior Advisor
Michael Allegretti is Chief Strategy Officer at Rubicon, a software company that provides waste, recycling and smart city solutions to businesses and governments worldwide. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Rubicon, a certified B Corp, Allegretti leads the company’s rapidly growing RUBICONSmartCity™ SaaS business, while overseeing all public policy, corporate communications, marketing, and sustainability operations company-wide. Prior to joining Rubicon, Allegretti oversaw public policy for Uber Technologies Inc. in the company’s largest global market, New York City. He has also served as a senior advisor to The Climate Group, where he advised the Rt. Honorable Tony Blair; organized the historic C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York City in May 2007; and led public policy for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a national think tank focused on solving urban problems such as education reform, access to reliable transportation, and inclusive economic development from 2007-2010. Earlier in his career, Allegretti was a Political & Public Policy Analyst for the global investment bank, UBS; and in 2010 he was a candidate for the U.S House of Representatives in New York's highly competitive 13th Congressional district.
Allegretti holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Boston College, where he graduated with honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Rodney D. Bullard
Senior Advisor
Rodney Bullard is Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Chick-fil-A, Inc. and Executive Director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation where he leads the company’s corporate community and philanthropic strategy, which is focused on fostering youth and furthering education. Prior to Chick-fil-A, Rodney served as an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting complex criminal cases. Prior to this role, Rodney was selected as a White House Fellow, the nation’s most prestigious public-service Fellowship. As a White House Fellow, Rodney was placed at NASA working directly for the NASA Administrator. A decorated veteran, Rodney also served in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps eventually working at the Pentagon as a Congressional Legislative Liaison in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Rodney is an alumnus of the United States Air Force Academy, Duke University School of Law, the University of Georgia’s Terry School of Business and the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.