Izzet Bensusan Email & Phone Number

New York, Us

Captona Partners is a North America-focused investment company specializing in power generation and energy infrastructure assets. The Firm focuses its investments across multiple power generation technologies, including renewable energy assets like solar, wind, biomass, and run-of-river hydro as well as conventional power assets like gas-fired generation facilities. Through its principal investments in the power generation and energy infrastructure sectors, the Captona Partners team has developed, acquired, operated, financed, and engineered assets in several locations throughout North America.

New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Launched Karbone with the goal of creating a leading finance and advisory company in the emerging renewableenergy and emissions space, already recognized by New Energy Finance, a global leading publication, as one of thetop 5 companies in less than a year amongst large firms• Raised several million dollars to achieve the strategic goals of Karbone and recruited a unique team comprised ofenvironmental scientists, renewable energy and emissions finance professionals and a brokerage team• Successfully developed and opened New York and London offices within one year and signed contracts sufficientto cover all overhead break-even for first year of operation.• Joined and became a leading member of several organizations including American Council on Energy Economics,Energy Forum, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, and ACRE• Spoke at various conferences on topics such as Carbon Finance, Renewable Energy, and the Voluntary Emissionsmarkets• Led and participated in recognized industry reports such as the State of Voluntary Carbon Markets

Irving, Texas, Us

Fr

- Responsible to manage sales, partnerships and new product development groups- Manage revenues and profitability derived from major financial and insurance accounts- Launch and develop additional service lines the IT Risk management space based on managed services - Conceptualize and deliver the non-recurring based strategic projects- Improve professional services delivery of quality via training, additional processes & standardization, introduce metrics and strategic initiatives

Fr

VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT • Responsible for profit and loss of own business practice specializing in the information security risk management and accounting for over 70% of NET2S revenues in the US • Lead,train and mentor a team of 40+ consultants and manage a group of seniorbusiness development professionals responsible for acquiring new accounts andincreasing revenue • Oversee multi million information security contracts with top financial institutions focused on multiple vulnerability assessments, policy reviews and penetration tests • Generate new business, grow the client network, and expand the service offerings

Fr

•Acquired, developed and executed complex IT consulting projects for financial institutions, such as Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Credit-Suisse and Citigroup; initiated and grew business relationships with senior executives at these financial institutions, translating into 20% of NET2S annual revenues • Designed over 20+ custom consulting projects for solutions around trading floor technologies, information security and application middleware development; secured new sources of revenue, realizing compounded annual revenue growth of 25% between 2000 and 2003 • Structured and negotiated long term partnerships with international firms such as Reuters, Sun, IBM, Tibco, and Microsoft, resulting in new business with Nasdaq, Cendant, Bank of America and more than a dozenother Fortune 500 firms

• Worked with the company's founding team to execute the firm's growth strategy via establishing a new brand, expanding the service offerings, organizing the legal and corporate infrastructure, and growing the personnel from 6 to 60 in one year • Negotiated co-branding, content, and distribution deals with educational and cultural portals resulting in new sources of revenue and growth • Helped raise over $14 million in venture capital and managed the firm's capital assets • Secured international trademarks, copyrights and patents for the unique online teaching methodology • Led the company expansion into the Brazilian market; performed comprehensive market analysis and designed market entry and exit strategies

Mba, Value Investing

Ma, International Finance And Economics

Ba, Economics