Crescendo Power is a project investment company that focuses on behind the meter distributed energy and microgrid systems. Our portfolio targets commercial, industrial, healthcare and higher ed projects in the 1-10 MW size range. We have a holistic approach to place equity investments and source debt as needed. Crescendo Power brings a flexible investment strategy to support a variety of distributed energyprojects. We service the full capital stack from sponsor and tax equity to sourcing debt in orderto get the project efficiently deployed for the end customer.Through our initial $30M equity fund, Crescendo Power works with a varietyof project types from basic solar to multiple generation sources to complexmicrogrids. We collaborate with project developers, technology/ solutionsproviders, and EPC firms to help bring a complete answer to the customer’sonsite energy goals.Crescendo Power’s investment approach can bring value to all segments of thedevelopment cycle. From engaging early in an advisor role to acquiring shovelready or post commissioning projects, we have the latitude to execute quicklyand effectively.

Hitachi Energy Solutions designs, finances, builds, owns, and operates distributed energy resources (DER), battery energy storage, and microgrids.My team is responsible for actively engaging with clients to understand their energy needs and work with them to design and deploy a custom system that allows increased energy independence and control. Responsibilities- Project delivery, transaction execution, and asset management- Partner and client engagement- Business process development and improvement

As part of the company's 100-year plan, Hitachi entered the North American distributed energy resource (DER)/ microgrid market in 2015. Hitachi Consulting was tasked with designing the market entry, crafting the business plan and incubating the business. In my role as Manager on the incubation team, I was responsible for a variety of activities during the planning phase including: -Developing financial models-Creating and presenting business plan financials-Mapping business model options to financial outcomes-Aligning financing options with market demands-Setting up processes for project analysis that integrated the design team and the business development team-Interfaced with Energy IoT team to support microgrid/DER development

Hitachi's Social Innovation Business focuses on bringing together technology and infrastructure to solve the world's largest problems involving energy, water, transportation, and healthcare. Serving as a Senior Consultant in the energy vertical, I collaborated with multiple Hitachi companies to create, develop, incubate and deploy comprehensive energy solutions.HighlightsEnergy Savings as a Service- Built and ran financial simulations to support internal strategy decisions - Worked with both engineering teams and financing partners to develop custom project finance to deploy energy saving technology as a service- Successfully completed 5 projects as proof points and contributed to the scaling strategy Energy Management and Organizational Effectiveness - Worked with our operations and management consulting teams to integrate energy strategy and management into their organization effectiveness offering- Delivered results for 3 industrial manufacturing clients - Managed all data analysis and financial modeling

PRIZIM Inc, a subsidiary of Hitachi Consulting, is a sustainability and energy management services firm that helps organizations achieve their mission with results that are timely, objective, reliable, valuable, necessary, and sustainable.Highlights- Helped develop and incubate PRIZIM's energy strategy and energy management service- Created tools and processes to support energy audits and energy project analysis- Led energy audits and energy project evaluation for multiple federal and commercial clients