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The Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) was founded in 1990 and is the leading advisor to AEC firms.
Our mission is to provide a data-driven and strategic edge to AEC firms to advance the innovation, sustainability, and success of the industry.
In the last 35 years we have served as a retained advisor to over 550 firms, developed a proprietary database of financial and business metrics from our clients, and held over 100 executive conferences for leaders in the industry.
We provide a wide array of services, including M&A Advisory, Corporate Finance and Strategic Consulting, Valuations, Peer Benchmarking Analyses, Industry Executive Conferences, and Board Presentations.
How can we help your firm gain the competitive advantage?
550+
AEC Firms Advised
240+
M&A Transactions
100+
Conferences Hosted
About
Advanced Data Team
Each of our service pillars is powered by the most comprehensive proprietary database in the industry.
For 35+ years and counting, we have served as a retained advisor to 550+ firms, developed a proprietary database of financial and business metrics from our clients, held more than 100 executive conferences, and built personal relationships with the CEOs and key decision makers at every major AEC company and private equity firm investing in the AEC space.
Our Founder
Paul Zofnass
Paul founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990 after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer, where he was a Managing Director in Investment Banking. He is an alumnus of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Paul was the leading strategic and financial advisor to CEOs in the environmental and infrastructure engineering and consulting industry for over 30 years.
Paul is a long-term environmentalist, playing a major role in initiating Harvard’s Environmental Studies Program in the 1990’s; initiating and contributing the Zofnass Tree Identification Program to NYC’s Central Park; creating the Zofnass Family Preserve/Westchester Wilderness Walk, a 250-acre nature preserve with a 10-mile long hiking trail in Pound Ridge, NY; designing and donating a permanent New England Forest Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; creating the Zofnass Infrastructure Sustainability Program at Harvard to develop a rating system to measure “Sustainability” as it applies to major civil infrastructure projects.
This system is now known as “Envision”, and is managed by the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), founded by three major engineering professional associations (ASCE, ACEC, and APWA), and on which Paul previously served as a Board Member.The Envision Rating System is now used around the world, including the recent renovation of LaGuardia Airport and the Tappan Zee Bridge, and over 9,000 engineers have been trained and credentialed as an ENVSP (Envision Sustainability Professional).
Paul is also a member of the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He’s a Board member of Riverkeeper and served on the Board of the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and on the Board of the Westchester Land Trust for many years.
Paul was presented and honored with the 2021 EBJ Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more about it here.