Research and structuring of pay-for-success financing (Social or Development Impact Bonds) vehicles for conservation and agricultural development interventions.

Specialized in impact-oriented investments into growing companies, private equity, and venture capital funds throughout the emerging and frontier markets.Valued and modeled potential catalytic capital investments in a wide variety of sectors such as medical device, financial inclusion and renewables. Researched and drafted investment committee memos for client participation in impact-oriented venture capital and private equity funds, including the closing of a $6 million investment into an emerging market micro-insurance fund.Evaluated new private equity and debt fund applications for structured debt funding program from a US government development finance institution.

As an associate consultant for DG Energy, a start-up solar energy consulting firm structured to source financing and provided financial advise for proposed solar energy energy projects, I performed and executed a variety of tasks including:• Maintaining project finance models and corresponding marketing outputs that display project returns for tax equity investors based on the effects of federal and local solar investment tax credits, depreciation savings and upfront capital expenditures• Conducting sales call to potential equity, debt, and tax equity investors to source financing for our project pipeline • Organizing a "Solar Finance Boot Camp", a recurring 2-day training course for solar installers and engineers that teaches the fundamentals of project finance, offers insight into current market conditions, and introduces potential project opportunities• Designing project finance model for sale and distribution to current and prospective clients on both the engineering and financing sides of the solar energy business

I structured and designed debt repurchases, distressed debt exchanges, and worked as a mediator between bondholders and issuers to resolve covenant infractions within issuers' indentures