Craig O'Connor Email & Phone Number

Fremont, Ca, Us

Work to support Nextracker's mission to transition the world to affordable, renewable power, by supporting the international sales of the world's highest performing and resilient solar tracking technologies and software.

Washington, Dc, Us

I have served as an Adjunct Professor of International Business at Georgetown University since the spring semester of 1997. Georgetown is consistently rated as one of the top 10 schools in the U.S. for International Business. Included in my International Business class are separate modules on the Big Emerging Markets, Trade Finance, Export Credit Agencies, Project Finance, and Foreign Exchange Risk Mitigation Mechanisms. I also teach International Project Finance in the MBA Program. Received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Faculty Teaching in 2003, and the 2016 Peter W. Gonzalez, Jr, Award for Excellence in Adjunct Faculty Teaching.

Washington, Dc, Us

As EXIM's Renewable Energy Officer, I work with global Fortune 1000 companies in the financing of environmentally-beneficial projects such as solar, wind, and storage. I manage business development, advise U.S. exporters, as well as international customers and project sponsors, on the EXIM’s approach to trade, project, and structured finance. Over the past few years I have represented EXIM on trade missions to India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, and Vietnam, among other countries. I led EXIM’s efforts to promote renewable energy financing in India that resulted in EXIM becoming the first international financial institution to finance a project under the Indian Government’s National Solar Mission (NSM). I worked extensively with Indian solar project sponsors, including Azure Power, Kiran Energy, and others that resulted in EXIM financing the first 9 projects under Phase 1 of the NSM totaling $400+ million.In 2021, I worked closely with ESS in originating, advising and structuring EXIM’s first-ever energy storage transaction Sapele Power - one of the first energy storage projects in Nigeria and the entire sub-Saharan Africa region, and EXIM's 2022 Sub-Saharan Africa Deal of the Year. In 2022, working closely with First Solar, I originated, and underwrote, the 53.5MW Olanchito Solar Project in Honduras that is the Bank’s largest-ever solar project in the Americas, and winner of EXIM’s 2022 Deal of the Year Award.From 2019 -2022 I worked closely with SunAfrica in origination and advisory on EXIM financing that resulted in the largest-ever renewable energy project financed by EXIM: the $900 million Angola Solar Power Project approved by the Bank's Board of Directors on June 1, 2023. From 1995 - 2007, I served as the Bank’s Environmental Liaison Officer as well as Director of Business Development for Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Eastern Europe. From 1993-95, I served as Loan Officer for the Middle East & North Africa.

Washington, Dc, Us

Developed and taught a concentrated 2-day course on International Project Finance for the Inter-American Development Bank's Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting the development of PPPs from both the private sector and public sector window. Under the public sector window, the Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division (CMF) is responsible for providing countries with financial solutions to de-risk PPP projects, mainly using sovereign guarantees.

Serve as a visiting Adjunct Professor. I created the course content, and teach the Global Business within the International MBA Program (see syllabus below).

Washington, Dc, Us

Served as an Adjunct Professor of International Banking at American University from 1999-2003 where I developed and structured the MBA-level International Banking course for the Kogod School of Business. This course included a module on Trade Finance, in addition to modules on Export Credit Agencies, Project Finance, and Foreign Exchange Risk Mitigation Mechanisms. For this course I developed a, “Handbook of Trade and Project Finance.”

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Worked with international Fortune 500 companies, associations, and government entities to assess risk, and to recommend business insurance coverages that included executive protection and kidnap and ransom

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Served as PenFed's chief Investment Specialist in charge of managing the Credit Union's $500 million short-term investment portfolio. Developed strategies and reports to top management to increase the returns of the portfolio, executed trades in the Feds Funds market, bought and sold U.S. Treasury Bills and Notes, and executed repurchase and reverse repurchase trades in U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed securities.

Mclean, Va, Us

Responsible for processing trades and collateral management for the Corporation’s $5 billion investment account in the areas of federal funds, Treasury securities, and mortgage-backed securities.Served as the Corporation’s liaison to the Federal Reserve Bank and investment banks for the issuance of the Corporation’s mortgaged-backed securities, discount notes, and arbitrage transactions.

Mba, International Business

B.A. - Finance, Henry Bloch School Of Business