Maria is the CEO and Founder of Ardinall Investment Management, an investment firm focused on sustainable investing, electrification, digitization, and resilient infrastructure that she started in 2017.
Prior to Ardinall Investment Management, Ms. Dreyfus spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director in the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP) Group.
She currently serves as a director on the boards of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) and Cadiz Inc (NADSAQ: CDZI). She previously served as an independent director on the boards of Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD, 2021-2024), Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE: MIC, 2018-2022), Nabors Energy Transition Corp (NYSE: NETC, 2021-2023), CDPQ (2019-2024), and on the advisory board of Eni SpA’s corporate venture arm (2018-2024).
She also serves as a director on several private companies’ governing and advisory boards in the energy transition and technology space. Additionally, she is the Vice Chair of the advisory board of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and Co-chair of its Women in Energy program. Ms.Dreyfus is also a member of the MIT Corporation’s Development Committee and sits on the MIT Economics Department’s Visiting Committee.
Her current and past non-profit board memberships include the Global CCS Foundation, New America Alliance, Breakthrough New York, and Girls Inc. of NYC. Ms. Dreyfus has held her CFA since 2004, and holds a dual degree in economics and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
