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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Head of the Renewable Energy PF Portfolio with $1.6Bn AUM. Lead a team of Project Finance individual contributors.

Gogarburn, Gb

• Lead credit diligence, analysis, and recommendation for Project Finance deals with commitment sizes ranging from $50MM to $100MM+. Serve as the senior credit member of cross-functional Project Finance deal team providing key input in structuring and due diligence for new deals. Technological diversity of Project Finance deals includes wind power, solar power, fuel cells, fossil fuel generation, infrastructure, and midstream deals. Strong Renewable Energy Experience.• Manage 30+ existing deals (approx. $2Bn) from credit perspective, completing yearly reviews providing thorough analysis and recommendations on each. Portfolio includes Project Finance deals (85%) and Corporate deals (15%). Corporate clients include Energy, Midstream, Infrastructure, and Gold industries.• Exercise delegated authority to approve new exposure, waivers, and amendments within delegation limits (up to £190MM in direct lending, depending on credit quality). • Analyze troubled credits, presenting issues to senior management regularly. Managed six troubled portfolio deals over the last twelve months. • Provide deal-specific supervision, guidance, and mentoring to junior team members. Coordinate external consultants.

Us

• Managed client relationships for asset backed distressed debt investments in 12 portfolio companies (approx. $140MM) as part of a $2B hedge fund. Majority of companies in liquidation, foreclosure, or bankruptcy requiring high levels of technical understanding and client interaction. • Directed daily interaction with clients companies’ executive management teams and boards to review company strategy and performance. • Supervised junior analysts’ processing of daily loan borrowing requirements, and approved final borrowing requests ($25K-$3MM per request). Presented weekly account updates to senior fund management.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

• Co-Managed 17 wind power structured equity (“tax equity”) investments (approx. $1B) as part of a $4B Renewable Energy Portfolio. • Handled client relationships, deal funding, monitoring, and project models. Focused on client needs while protecting invested assets and averting potential issues. Clients included multi-national wind developers. Part of expanding Renewable Energy portfolio, with $1B growth during management tenure.• Managed production team and process for Quarterly Renewable Energy Publication benchmarking performance of operating projects within portfolio. Report used by senior management in deal review and future investment decisions.• Followed wind energy industry technology and policy developments. Built relationships with major wind developers, attended industry conferences, and served as GE representative for The Wind Coalition.• Supervised and provided direction to junior team members assigned to deals. Presented accounts management facilitating greater communication across entire team.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

• Managed 20+ accounts (approx. $215MM) within an $18B portfolio including structured debt, asset based loans, and lease products. Investments in industries including energy, industrial, consumer product.• Improved major client relationship with shaky history prior to my account management. This led to improved negotiating position on large lease with 2000+ leased assets.• Management duties included negotiating, structuring, and executing waivers and amendments, financial metric analysis, portfolio review presentations to internal senior management, and other activities troubleshooting account-specific issues.• Underwrote a variety of deals including cash flow 1st lien debt and operating and capital leases. Involved in underwriting 13 deals, including a structured senior debt facility with an acquisition line ($34MM) with an energy service company, a mid-size deal for the group. • Involved in execution of amendments and terminations that led to $2.0MM in net income in 2006, contributing substantially more than anticipated to the group’s revenue.

New York, Ny, Us

• Created dynamic model to track and analyze investments based on flexible search metrics. Managed implementation across functions and remote sites world-wide. • Reconciled and corrected reporting to accurately track investment values. Found a $15MM reporting error when the model was used to check existing records.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Project management of technical direction portion of steam turbine construction during power plant installation and maintenance.• Supervised up to 20 shift power plant construction workers on daily basis including work supervision and task approval. • Negotiated schedule and budgetary issues and represented GE as on-site customer service representative at construction project management meetings.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Westerville, Ohio, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance

Bsme, Engineering

High School Diploma

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Clinical/Medical Social Work