The People Behind Oakledge
Institutional expertise, unconflicted perspective, commitment to fiduciary integrity
Our team brings deep experience from leading investment consultants, asset managers, and sustainability initiatives. We work alongside a trusted network of specialists to deliver rigorous, principled guidance and ensure every engagement gets exactly the expertise it needs.
Max Messervy
Founder & Principal
Max founded Oakledge to close a critical gap he observed after 15+ years in sustainable finance. At Mercer, he led ESG and impact investment consulting in the Americas for global institutional clients. At Ceres, he built investor coalitions around climate and social risk. And working alongside asset owners, he advised on sustainable investment strategy, climate transition planning, and fiduciary governance. Throughout that work, Max became convinced that investors had plenty of data but lacked strategic clarity. They needed advisors who could integrate analytical rigor with genuine independence—no product conflicts, no ideology. Just evidence-based guidance grounded in fiduciary duty. At Oakledge, Max leads all client engagements and brings together the specialist expertise each situation requires. He's published on sustainable investment and system-level change, speaks regularly to institutional audiences, and advises leading sustainability initiatives. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and an Honors degree in Religious Studies from McGill University
Team
Senior Advisor
Richard Fontes, CFA
Rich helps conceptualize and implement climate data and framework integrations into the various financial products and services Oakledge offers to the financial space. His 15+ year career in the financial services industry includes time at State Street Investment Management, Wellington Management, and Fidelity Investments. Rich’s award-winning product portfolio includes several multi-million ARR sustainability business lines, and his product designs powered over $2T in assets in ESG funds. In addition to Oakledge, he is a partner at Greenbridge Advisors, advising financial services firms, FinTech's, RegTech's, and climate/ESG service providers on product management and innovation. Rich is a CFA Charterholder and Chair of CFA Boston’s Sustainable Investment Taskforce, holds a MBA from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and a BSBA from Merrimack College.
Sustainability Consultant
Shaili Jhaveri
Shaili Jhaveri is a sustainability and climate professional with expertise in sustainable investing, climate risk, ESG reporting, and energy transition strategy. She has worked with leading financial institutions, including Fidelity Investments and Mercer, helping organizations navigate climate-related risks and opportunities through data-driven analysis, reporting, and strategic advisory services. Her experience spans greenhouse gas accounting, sustainability disclosures, stewardship and engagement, ESG due diligence, and regulatory analysis. Shaili is passionate about translating complex sustainability challenges into actionable insights that support long-term value creation and resilient decision-making. She holds an M.S. in Sustainability Management from American University and a B.Com. in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Mumbai.
Our Partner Network
Extending Our Expertise
At Oakledge, we convene a network of trusted collaborators — from data and analytics partners to impact specialists, systems thinkers, and peer advisors — to deliver clear, practical, and principled guidance to those responsible for the world's most consequential capital.
While Oakledge is intentionally independent, it is far from a solo act. For clients who require extended technical depth or bespoke expertise, We assemble and integrate insights from a consortium of sustainability and investment professionals, ensuring each engagement reflects both rigor and harmony.
FFI Solutions
FFI Solutions is a leading provider of transition intelligence, sustainability research, and climate analytics for institutional investors and financial market participants.
For more than two decades, FFI has helped asset owners, asset managers, consultants, and financial institutions understand how climate change, energy transition dynamics, policy developments, and emerging sustainability risks affect markets, portfolios, and investment strategy.
Quantitative Infrastructure for Institutional Investors
Through the Carbon Underground 200™ and a growing suite of transition intelligence products, FFI provides the quantitative infrastructure that institutional investors need to assess stranded asset exposure, decarbonization progress, and engage companies on credible transition planning.
Strategic Partnership with Oakledge
As a strategic network partner, FFI extends Oakledge's ability to deliver evidence-based analysis and institutional-grade research across a wide range of client engagements.
Through this partnership, Oakledge clients can access specialized capabilities including climate and transition risk analysis, sustainability and ESG research, regulatory intelligence, market and peer benchmarking, stewardship and engagement support, thought leadership development, and custom research initiatives.
This partnership allows Oakledge to remain lean, independent, and highly responsive while providing clients access to the depth of expertise and analytical resources typically associated with much larger advisory organizations.
How Can Our Model Support You?
Clients don't pay for overhead, they pay for institutional expertise, brought together by people who are accountable for integrating it all into clear, practical guidance. This model aims to provide a more integrated approach than traditional consulting firms yet with the nimble and creative approach to institutional-grade advice befitting a boutique staffed by practitioners.