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Lenexa, Ks, Us

Lenexa, Ks, Us

Elected to Lenexa City Council Ward 4 position in November 2023. Term continues to December 2027.

Edinburgh, Gb

• Strategic Leadership: Leading the development and execution of Eneus' synthetic fuels strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's overall goals and market opportunities.• Revenue Expansion: Identifying new growth opportunities to diversify and expand the company’s revenue streams.• Market Alignment: Monitoring and analyzing market realities and trends, adjusting business strategies to align with emerging opportunities and competitive dynamics.• Partnership Development: Forging and nurturing strategic partnerships with key industry players to enhance project development and maximize opportunities.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with other leaders and teams to ensure business development strategies are integrated with project development, operations, and marketing efforts. • Team Leadership: Leading a high-performing business development team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Founder, focused on originating, developing, acquiring, and owning small to medium renewable energy and storage resources to satisfy power market and customer demands. Advising partners seeking solutions for their particular energy, distribution system, or sustainability goals.Minority Business Enterprise certification pending.Seeking working capital, partner opportunities, and project contributions.

Leader of Energy Services origination and commercial negotiation. Work with top company and parent senior executives to develop growth strategies, negotiate business deals, solve a broad range of business problems, and design efficient business processes.• Analyzed business model and performance of reciprocating engine services group and turbine services group, and led multi-function commercial team that successfully divested engine services group and dissolved turbine services group.• Negotiated settlement and successful exits from two disputed O&M services contract, resulting in capturing over 50% of remaining value.• Collaborated with sales team to negotiate and close customized O&M services contracts, growing annual EBITDA by 15%.• Co-authored strategic plan and business plan to better position company in evolving industry and identify revenue and profitability opportunities.• Developed deal work flow process to better incorporate stakeholder engagement, increase communication across the company, and formalize approval processes.• Led inter-company task force reassigning Energy Services sales team to parent group for better growth strategy execution by increasing available sales resources and tools.• Led strategic partnership initiative with major international utility to provide consulting and O&M services.• Led strategic partnership initiative with leading Middle East power generation asset owners to develop strategic partnership.• Collaborated in negotiation of international business cooperation agreement with leading power generation manufacturer.• Collaborated with team submitting O&M services proposals.

Herron & Company is an energy and infrastructure project development, management, and advisory company. We help companies grow by helping them navigate all the internal and external obstacles which can impede or stop an investment at the intersection of company strategy and operations, government policy, regulation, approval processes, and external stakeholder interaction / involvement / input.

• Led and completed the on-time and under-budget development of the $1.1 B, 1250 MW combined cycle natural gas electric generation Cape Canaveral Energy Center, COD 2013.• Led and completed the on-time and under-budget development of the $1.3 B, 1250 MW combined cycle natural gas electric generation Riviera Beach Energy Center, COD 2014.• Led and completed the on-time and under-budget development of two $150 MM electrostatic precipitator projects at conventional steam plants which will result in early compliance with new environmental regulations when completed by end of year 2014.• Originated the development of the world’s first constructed hybrid solar thermal and natural gas combined cycle plant.• Identified and pursued opportunity to partner with Savannah River National Laboratory to develop a chemical heat transfer fluid additive which would increase the operating efficiency of solar thermal generation plants as part of the DOE’s SunShot grant program.• Pursued development of FPL’s first energy storage projects which would provide additional risk management tools to address system operations vulnerabilities and potentially avoid compliance violations and fines, demonstrate the generation capacity benefits of renewable generation, and increase profits from electricity sales. Prospective projects included 40 MW / 3.5 MWH frequency response and 5 MW / 20 MWH solar PV integration.• Became a company-recognized subject matter expert on fossil and renewable generation, plant modernizations, greenfield development, and technology innovations, providing electricity generation domain knowledge for Public Service Commission-required Rate Case, Ten Year Site Plan, and environmental compliance regulatory filings and hearings.

Responsible for driving short- and long-term corporate development objectives for the global enterprise through strategic asset evaluations, acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, and partnership activities. Managed equity investment and acquired entities by developing integration plans, tracking performance, resolving corporate problems, and actively communicating with management to maximize return on capital. Member of strategic planning team initiating new revenue-generating, technology acquisition, and partnership projects and transactions. Led internal corporate communications efforts to increase transparency and knowledge of organizational objectives and capabilities.• Led strategic joint venture acquisition and integration with APV’s largest customer establishing an exclusive services relationship adding $40 MM annually in revenue.• Created formal corporate development process resulting in a new consultative, collaborative, and integrated decision-making process by senior executives, key account executives and country leaders to developing revenue growth strategies and M&A actionable ideas. Resulted in faster knowledge sharing and the effective utilization of resources to pursue initiatives.

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for leading client relationship building, transaction origination and execution, managing venture capital activities, and managing analysts and associates. Responsible for business development plan that increased focused marketing efforts on targeted prospective clients and improved pitch books. Analyzed entrepreneur business plans and wrote investment analyses for submission to Investment Committee resulting in investment decisions.• Won contract to sell $15 MM telecommunications equipment distributor.

Consultant to partnership acquiring commercially implemented bio-solids technology. Developed and executed acquisition and financing strategies.

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Responsible for conducting comprehensive due diligence, researching and building financial models, assessing risks, managing the transaction process, recruiting and engaging team members, undertaking research, writing pitch books, and communicating with executive management in the process of moving projects and transactions towards a successful close. Developed and maintained bank and other relationships for sourcing capital, collecting market intelligence, obtaining industry and transaction data, and securing new ideas used in creating projects and transactions more capital efficient and market acceptable. Pursued new project development activity with Originators by providing financing assumptions and analytical support increasing the likelihood of a project proceeding to the execution stage. • Co-led team completing $400 MM bridge financing of the acquisition of controlling interests in multiple power plants.• Structured and closed $21 MM natural gas volumetric production payment (VPP).• Led team successfully in the selling of $800 MM in merchant assets in three transactions.• Led team successfully in the selling of $60 MM investment in public company to private investment group. • Co-led team designing and creating $250 MM VPP financing vehicle; subsequently syndicated into bank market.• Structured and closed $240 MM natural gas prepayment with municipal entity.• Co-led team successfully syndicating $180 MM VPP to the bank market; subsequently restructured and syndicated to the insurance market.• Co-led team structuring and closing first-ever securitization of $300 MM of energy trade receivables for a commercial paper conduit.

Mba, Finance And Accounting

A. B., History

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History

Master Of Business Administration - Mba