Clara Chow, Principal, is the founder of Cura Consulting Group. Clara has an extensive background in green entrepreneurship, which includes strategic planning, marketing, and policy development in the area of environmental management and sustainable development. Her work encompasses: a framework for green business/sustainable enterprise; marketing strategy for ecotourism; analyses of non-financial performance for investment and acquisition proposals; business development for an industrial ecology start-up firm; and industry analysis for an environmental software company. In partnership with GfK NOP, her projects include: customer value and positioning analysis for one of the largest international express delivery companies and assessments to measure the awareness and effectiveness of federal outreach and communication programs.

Prior to founding Cura Consulting Group, Clara was part of the management team at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She held senior positions at the EPA Headquarters and at the agency's Boston and San Francisco regional offices. At the EPA, Clara created a planning process that integrated enforcement and pollution prevention programs to promote sustainable development. This process pioneered the integration of complex environmental compliance data systems to benchmark and analyze program as well as workforce performance. She was also responsible for overseeing more than 150 administrative, civil, and judicial enforcement actions brought under the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts. Her risk assessment expertise supported Superfund litigations and the development of exposure standards for hazardous waste permits under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Clara continues to lecture domestically and internationally at universities, non-governmental organizations, and governmental forums on a variety of topics relating to green entrepreneurship. She was honored in EPA's Commemorative Poster of Contemporary Women Scientists and Engineers for "Making a Difference In Environmental Protection" and as one of the Top 50 Women in Science by the National Technical Association in 1998.

Clara is a Sloan Fellow graduate with a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Tufts University.