Directors

N.K. Ezeobele

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Odinaka (N.K.) Ezeobele is a director at Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI). She is passionate about building cross-sector partnerships to enable clients to make sound investment decisions with sustainable outcomes. N.K. applies strategic and systems thinking to help teams understand the market context, ensuring design solutions are market-ready, financially viable, and sustainable.

Before joining the firm, N.K. worked for PwC in Nigeria, with experience spanning from transaction advisory, assurance, formulation and planning to business transformation and project management. She has also consulted for the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, and the French Development Agency. She was a fellow at the Business Council for Sustainable Energy in Washington, DC.

N.K. holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Houston and a master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University. She loves learning about history and loves listening to episodes of a good podcast.

Brian Licari

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Brian Licari is a director at Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI). His career background and interests are in analyzing, developing, and implementing economic development and community revitalization strategies ranging in scale from the grassroots neighborhood level to regional business development efforts. With direct work experience in the public, private, nonprofit, and academic sectors, he has a deep understanding of the needs and motivations of stakeholders at different levels of local, regional, state, and national involvement.

Mr. Licari has extensive experience working with multidisciplinary project teams and distilling and communicating complex information to support policy and decision making. He thrives at all levels of communication, including community and stakeholder engagement, client management, training facilitation, staff mentoring, presentation material development, public speaking, and technical writing.

Cassandra Brown

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Cassandra Brown is a director at Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI). She comes to ESI with a deep background in higher education, working in various roles with alumni, faculty, and the external business and governance community for 15 years at Drexel University. Ms. Brown received her M.B.A. at Drexel University.

Prior to joining ESI, Cassie served as the Executive Director of Drexel University’s Gupta Governance Institute, which encompasses the Center for Corporate Governance and the Center for Nonprofit Governance. In this role, she assembled academics with corporate and nonprofit leaders, leading to research, insights and programming focused on best practices in governance. Cassie also served as the Executive Director of Drexel University LeBow College of Business’s Alumni Relations and Engagement initiatives, where she increased alumni engagement by creating affinity groups, forums and programming, connecting the College’s constituents and expanding their opportunities and outcomes.

In addition to her role at Drexel University, Cassie served as the Executive Director of the National Association of Corporate Directors Philadelphia Chapter. She provided support to the Chapter via membership growth and retention, program development, securing sponsorships, and board structure to fulfill the mission and vision of the NACD Philadelphia Chapter.

Cameron Miller

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Cameron Miller is an associate director at Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI). He has a history of working across the public sector, having held positions in city government, higher education, and nonprofit organizations.

Prior to joining ESI, Cameron served as the Director of Operations for the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Initiative, a mayoral program funded by the Philadelphia Beverage Tax investing $500 million in parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, and libraries in underserved Philadelphia neighborhoods. Joining early in its launch phase, Cameron was key to developing the startup department and managed program policies, processes, data, reporting, and program evaluation efforts.

From 2015 to 2019, Cameron worked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government, which focuses on training data-informed public leaders to bridge context, analysis, and practice. In his roles, Cameron contributed to the management and leadership of program admissions, stakeholder relations, marketing and communications, and operations.

Mark Robinson

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Mark Robinson is a director at Econsult Solutions, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Temple University in 2023. While at Temple, he taught courses on the American economy and issues in public policy. Mark’s research specialties included labor economics, environmental economics, and macroeconomics. His work has examined reasons for the decline of the labor share in the United States, how household debt affects workers’ bargaining power with employers, the relationship between how much we work and how much we pollute, and how the amount we work affects the amount we drive.

Prior to attending Temple University, Mark served as a computer programmer and analyst at Communally (formerly Solutions for Progress), a certified B Corporation and financial technology company aimed at ending poverty. Mark and the Communally team designed and programmed The Benefit Bank free software, which assisted low- and moderate-income people to file their taxes, apply for benefits, and register to vote.

Mark received his masters in economics from Temple University in 2017.  In 2005, he graduated from Haverford College, where he majored in history and political science, and minored in computer science.

Stephen Madsen

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Stephen Madsen is an Associate Director at Econsult Solutions, Inc., providing expertise in housing and economic development policy analysis. In 2020, Mr. Madsen earned his Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In 2012, Mr. Madsen earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross.

Prior to joining ESI, Mr. Madsen worked across the public and private sectors with experience at the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency; the New York City Economic Development Corporation; and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. During these experiences, Mr. Madsen has worked on the development, implementation and evaluation of local, state and federal affordable housing programs and economic development practices including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit; the State of New Jersey’s Down Payment Assistance program; and locally-funded real estate development.