Financial Analyst Kathy Hipple is a financial analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA.org) and the finance professor at Bard’s MBA in Sustainability. As VP at Merrill Lynch, she spent 10 years placing fixed income securities with international institutional clients. She later served as founder and CEO of Ambassador Media, a New York-based local search company with revenues of more than $35 million. She has an MBA in Sustainability, and splits her time between New York City and Vermont.