Cliff Oliver Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for all aspects of project development including deal origination, energy management, project financing, site acquisition and development, and permitting program while managing government and regulatory affairs, local stakeholder groups and negotiations with all counter parties.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led the development, implementation and enhancement of analytical and decision making processes utilized to improve generation performance, mitigate risk and optimize capital investment, while maximizing profitability.
• Led team effort responsible for the re-positioning of 100 US fossil-based operating facilities implementing an optimization strategy that delivered $1.5B spend improvement over five years
• Successfully developed and implemented performance measurement tool that translates operating performance to profitability. Strategy transformed incentive structure from asset availability to asset’s ability to capture.
• Implemented innovative semi-annual unit characteristics review which influences fleet margin performance and corporate EBITDA forecasting. Improved work process resulted in $90M in energy margin over a five year period
• Jointly developed, implemented and delivered spend improvement strategy resulting in an annual FCF improvement of AUD$36M and a total of AUD$145M over four years at a 1,680MW coal facility in Queensland, Australia.
• Achieved $10M (30%) increase in FCF between 2014 and 2017 through economic based project reviews, FTE benchmarking and supply chain optimization at a 180MW natural gas combined cycle in Turkey

Greater Atlanta Area

• Performed proprietary trading and asset based hedging in both real time and forward markets. Managed positions around long term tolling agreement and asset based heat rate options. Managed and coordinated an eight.
• Realized gross margins contribution averaging $3.1M per year from trading activities
• Optimized a long term heat rate call option, maximizing value proposition of the contract by resupplying load obligation from market. Optimization improved contract profitability and operational cost requirements of.
• Developed and implemented new strategies and procedures which reduced positional value-at-risk when affected by congestion or non-delivery of power
• Advised management on commercial and operational risk components of spot and term deals
• Achieved extensive knowledge of the regional transmission systems, constraints and system operating characteristics through the physical delivery of energy to multiple locations and markets

• Managed a portfolio of $92M in deposits and $15 million in loans
• Successfully developed and implemented a strategy to restructure the officer’s portfolio in order to effectively and efficiently cultivate a profitable clientele
• Increased loan portfolio through by $1.4M through cultivation of existing clients and an aggressive outside calling strategy (2000 Goal: $250K)
• Applied processes and strategy, decreasing operational losses 553% for calendar year 1999
• Created, developed and applied quarterly and annual market plans consistent with corporate strategy to expand portfolio, promote profitability, decrease attrition and decrease operational losses
• Awarded Banking Officer, Branch Production leader 2000 and Regional MVP on three occasions