• Member of Senior Leadership Team and global lead for mergers and acquisitions and long-term project opportunities, particularly in Latin America, Europe and Africa as part of strategic plan to transform the company into an independent power producer.• Responsible for the negotiation and closing of all projects originated by the business development team.• Promoted to also head and manage the Business Management Team that is responsible for any post-closing, troubleshooting and other business issues that arise with projects and clients.

• Responsible for the origination of new projects in the Americas, including the evaluation of new opportunities and creating business development strategies with cross-functional teams.• Successfully led the entering of Brazil through a change in business strategy, the identification and establishment of key strategic partners and the development of a new tax structure to make APR Energy’s pricing more competitive. The 226 MW project represented both APR’s largest turbine placement and the first long term project since 2016 by increasing the contract tenure by more than 3X.• Obtained highest placement of turbines in 3 years for the 2021 Mexicali Emergency Peaking RFP and exceeded target number of turbines through the placement of 10 turbines, including securing a new client and identified opportunity to generate several hundred thousand dollars of additional new revenues beyond the contract.

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• Responsible for the negotiation of all legal documents relating to distributed generation solar projects throughout the United States, including private and public sector, community solar, and utility scale.• Lead lawyer supporting New Ventures with mergers and acquisition opportunities and commercial operations, including electric vehicle fleet optimization and linear generators projects.

Kohn Consulting Group (KCG) is a management consulting firm specializing in legal management solutions and staff augmentation for Legal Departments. With a combined 43+ years of experience, our professionals understand how to reduce Legal Department costs by millions of US$ by achieving savings through process/policy improvements as well as expertise in assisting with leading transactions and strategic projects. Engagements include:• Responsible for providing legal advice on a renewable solar and energy storage project for a major European energy company.• Led the negotiation of Power Purchase Agreements, Operation & Maintenance, and the preparation of power generation project bids throughout Latin America.• Managed all legal and compliance matters for a leading food and beverage distribution company, including all regulatory matters(DOT, OSHA, FDA), Safety Audits, permitting, licensing, warehouse leases, and services agreements. Led international expansion, subsidiary creation, new bank accounts, permitting, licensing, food labeling, customs importation, 3PL logistics suppliers, warehousing, vehicle leases, and development of pricing model.• Work directly with legal departments to improve internal processes and controls, achieving real and sustainable cost reductions and implementing proven improvements in financial and operational performance.• Responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters in multiple countries in Latin America, including the drafting and negotiation of various commercial agreements, license agreements, outsourcing, strategic alliances and channel partnerships.• Successfully led, structured, and negotiated a capital raise as well as subsequent investment and funding, including setting up a new and more efficient international tax structure to allow the company to expand regionally and reduce taxes by 26%.

• Responsible for the origination of new projects in North and South America, including the evaluation of new opportunities and creating business development strategies with cross-functional teams.• Led the negotiation with the government of Argentina to settle outstanding contractual issues, the renewal of the Power Purchase Agreement and the subsequent migration of existing projects to the MEM (Argentina’s Wholesale Electricity Market).• Prepared project bids and proposals throughout Latin America, including in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia and Dominican Republic.• Assisted with special projects and operations, including negotiating with the labor union to resolve outstanding issues to avoid a strike at the largest project in the region.

I worked in a variety of roles at AES, including Regional General Counsel – Rest of the World (Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and CIS), Regional General Counsel – Latin America, International Counsel, and General Counsel – Greenhouse Gas Services and Assistant General Counsel where I was responsible for a broad range of legal issues in the various positions held.Served a little over two years at AES Brasil headquarters in Sao Paulo, AES’ largest P&L Operations. During my time there, led the reorganization and restructuring of this major subsidiary’s Legal Department. Responsible for cutting the department’s Operating Expense Budget by 50%, lowered legal contingencies by more than US$100 million and achieved over US$150 million in savings in external counsel fees. Also created a new eight-person Legal Controller Group whereby, under my direction, it prepared and revamped the Legal Department’s Budget, Business Plan and internal controls and was responsible for managing all accounting functions for approximately US$135 million in operations.

• Responsible for all legal and compliance aspects of development, mergers and acquisitions, financing, litigation, human resources, environment, construction, and asset management for long-term projects and assets in Latin America, including EPCs, O&Ms, PPAs, Long Term Service Agreements, and Gas Supply Agreements. • Provided legal counsel to regional group and senior business leaders on over a dozen major projects and matters throughout the region totaling approximately 2GW of power and $1.5B development budget as well as actively participating in the negotiation, strategy and business decisions of the team.• Effectively managed three in-house counsel in the region and outside law firms to implement a cost reduction program resulting in a reduction of almost 50% of legal spend.• As a result of Enron, I was responsible for the leading legal matters relating to the divestiture of all assets in the region.