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Princeton, New Jersey

Kindle energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Private Equity and is responsible for operating the fleet of power assets owned by Blackstone in the US. In addition Kindle is advising Blackstone on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and development of their power generation businesses.

Houston, Texas Area

Calpine is the largest independent power plant owner and operator in the US with over $8B per year revenue. EVP of Power operations included direct management of 87 power plants with generation capabilities of 27,000MW throughout the US and Canada. Also led engineering, construction, environmental, health and safety, supply chain and maintenance groups with over 1600 reporting personnel. Established and implemented all operational goals, budgets and business plans including board recording and reporting.Successes included changing the safety culture to have zero lost time accidents in 2014, and thru the duration cutting the recordable injury rate in half, reducing forced outages in half, reducing environmental occurrences by 75% and eliminating major engine equipment failure thru enhanced maintenance and inspection while holding plant operating costs flat year over year. Also successfully led construction of 6 new power plants and managed to bring them all under budget and on time.

Lake Mary, Florida

MHPS is a wholly subsidiary of MHI Japan and designs and manufactures power generation equipment including gas turbines, boilers, steam turbines, wind turbines, solar systems , SCR systems and reciprocating enginesSuccessfully developed and launched all the new product sales and marketing plans, including building full sales, marketing, project management, cost control, construction and commissioning teams to profitably grow the business from its inception to over $3B in profitable sales. Duties included direct management of 300 people in sales, marketing, engineering, project management, cost control, construction and commissioning.

Clinton, New Jersey

Foster Wheeler is a designer and manufacturer of steam generation equipment with annual revenue of $700M and 700 employees.Experience included:VP operations 2001-2002, responsible for execution of all projects with direct management of supply chain, project management, cost control, scheduling, construction and commissioning.VP commercial operation, 1999-2001, responsible for world wide sales, marketing, and contract acquisition for all products.VP HRSG and Industrial products, 1996-1999, responsible for full business lines including profit and loss for all industrial and HRSG boilers world wideProgressive sales and marketing roles: 1987 thru 1996Field Service engineer: 1980 thru 1987