Our Team

We’re ready to help make your vision of the future a reality.

Founder and CEO

Mel Litter

Mel Litter is CEO of Elemental Impact Solutions with over 35 years of experience in strategic financial planning; real estate acquisition and development; non-profit operations; and local government. She began her community development and finance career while in Vermont, assisting with site selection analysis for the Burlington Community Land Trust and serving as Environmental Planner and Assistant Assessor for the Town of Shelburne where she also assisted in the creation of the town’s State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreational Plan and designed a local park. 

Upon moving to Boston, Mel expanded her career working for several large real estate development and management firms including the Krupp Companies and Boston Financial in acquisitions and portfolio and risk management. She assisted in the acquisition of over $100 million in real estate deals and worked on a diverse array of acquisition projects including LIHTC portfolios and the multi-use Lake Placid Club Resort proposal . Mel taught portfolio and grant writing at Boston University ‘s Metropolitan College and co-founded the Real Estate Portfolio Managers Association (REPOR).

Mel then served as the Director of Financial Administration for Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Degree Programs for 11 years.  During that time she taught grant writing and portfolio management in the Communications Program, performed analysis on the impacts of a potential  Avian Flu pandemic and a domestic terrorist attack on the Degree Programs finances and recoded the school’s operating budget from a 13 digit to a 33 digit chart of accounts. 

Mel’s community service work has included 12 years as a Parks and Recreation Commissioner for the Town of Wayland, MA as well as in a variety of school and non-profit organizations.  She built and ran the first United State Pony Club Riding Center, Jordan Stables, until moving to Maryland in 2009 and served on the finance and fundraising committees for the Harford Land trust. In 2010 she obtained her Series 7, 66 and Life and Health licenses and worked in investments and strategic financial planning for banks and investment firms.

Mel has an adult son and daughter who keep her inspired.  She studied Environmental Planning and Political Science at the University of Vermont and is an avid hiker, equestrian and writer.   

Director of Urban Planning and Funding Acquisition

Abe Bruckman

Abe Bruckman is an Urban Planner and Designer with niche skills in grants and grants management.  He has three decades of experience working in community development, philanthropy, work with non-profit groups, museums and the arts economies. In his last postion, he served in a startup role as the municipal grants coordinator for the city of Mentor, Ohio. 

Abe has helped people, groups and organization secure funds from state, federal and private sector sources.  His government background includes proposal reviews and management from sources such as FEMA and US EPA. He is based out of Maryland, close to the nation’s capital.

Director of Strategy and Data Analysis

Rowan Litter

Rowan Litter is Elemental Impact Solutions’ Director of Strategy and Data Analysis. Rowan graduated with a BA from Boston College in 2019, majoring in International Studies with a concentration in Economics and spent a semester in Austria at the Vienna University of Business and Economics. A young entrepreneur, Rowan has experience working as a project manager at Verscend (now Cotiviti), a healthcare data analytics enterprise and creating content for. He also managed multiple social media pages for Sunwealth Power Inc., an agency that finances and develops commercial solar projects for predominately low-income communities. Currently, Rowan is a research analyst for VDC Research’s Enterprise Mobility and the Connected Worker practice, where he has published multiple blog posts and reports related to frontline mobile worker technologies.

As a rising senior in high school, Rowan traveled to the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho as a part of the Sierra Club to assist the National Parks Service with forest management. He also worked with the organization, Students Helping Honduras to lay the foundations of a school in El Progresso his second year at Boston College. In his free time, Rowan enjoys travelling to new places and doing outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking, paddle-boarding rock climbing and skiing; at Boston College, Rowan was part of an on-campus organization that frequently led outdoor excursions across New England and occasionally the country.