Project-based Business Development

Electric Power

High voltage 115 kV transmission design @ Midwest U.S. public utility (Engr Supervisor)

Hydro resource expansion & policy push for renewables @ Min & Energy, SE Asia (Expat)

Rural electrification, Africa (Peace Corps)

Independent Power

Natgas cogen @ Stanford University, one of 1st PURPA units in CA

• Built, owned & operated by SPV
• Ran for target life, retired, equipment moved & repurposed
• Plant replaced by new plant fully renewable

Managed multiple IPP proposals @ Texas-based IPP sub of major U.S. utility

Oil & Gas

Investment analysis & business system deployment @ integrated U.S. major Oilco

• Cogen @ Ship Channel chem plant
• Central American oil pipeline
• Horizontal drilling (Prudhoe Bay)
• West Texas shale
• GOM – Offshore & Onshore
• Business practices push-down before spin-off

Forest Products

Headed B.D. @ family office funded U.S. micro-IPP turned wood pellet producer

• Led effort that created international market awareness of “black pellet” technology
• Led team to acquire & secure European (Paris) offtake for 1st of kind U.S. black pellet plant
• Expanded project feedstock & site search to B.C., Canada targeting Japan for offtake

U.S. resident manager for Canadian company’s sawmill revamp @ acquired plant in U.S. South

Clean Fuels

VP BD @ early-stage U.S. startup with gas conversion technology (GTL)

• Multiple licenses signed with U.S. major oilcos; basis for U.S. IPO
• Extensive international outreach
• Non-traditional CFO during Sarbanes-Oxley + 2 Secondary rounds
• Co. 1st to make & deliver jet from methane to USAF for B-52 test flights
• Co. arguably kick-started today’s SAF gold rush
• Co. acquired & later became the anchor of Chevron’s renewable fuels platform

Green Chemicals & Hydrogen

Co-Founder @ TX startup targeting “green” chemicals; wound up company in ’23

• Ammonia, Methanol, Gasoline, Ethylene, Hydrogen
• Targeted sites at intersection of low-cost green power & sources of CO2, eg. ethanol plants