GENERATE: INTELLIGENCE

Since joining Generate in 2018, Asher has worked on waste-to-value projects, especially in the food- and agricultural-waste sectors and in the low-carbon fuels market. Outside of Generate, Asher has worked in venture capital and market advisory roles in the climate tech and energy space. Asher attended Northwestern University where he earned a BS in Environmental Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in Energy & Sustainability, and holds an MBA from Wharton.

Prior to Generate, in 2007, Scott joined McKinsey & Company and co-founded its global Clean Technologies Practice, advising companies, institutional investors, NGOs, and governments around the world on the economic imperatives of resource productivity and climate solutions. Prior to that, Scott spent over a decade in technology and venture capital, helping start and grow several companies. Scott has dedicated much of his professional life to the “resource revolution” and is a regular writer, keynote speaker, and conference panelist on the topics of thematic investing and risk management, climate- and resource-related innovation, and building values-based and people-centric businesses. Scott earned his MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a George F. Baker Scholar, and his BA cum laude from Dartmouth College.

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Prior to joining IFC, he was the President of EIG, a leading energy and infrastructure investment firm, and a member of its Investment and Executive Committees. Prior to joining EIG, he was a partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and a member of KKR’s Management Committee. William served as CEO of KKR Asset Management as well as CEO and Director of KKR Financial Corporation, a publicly traded specialty finance firm. He also sat on the board of Nephila Capital, a $10 billion hedge fund that is one of the largest private tech-enabled reinsurance vehicles in the world. Prior to joining KKR, he was with the global investment firm TCW Group, Inc., most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and Hong Kong, where he focused on mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Sonneborn is a frequent speaker on sustainable infrastructure and technology opportunities. He has given keynote presentations at conferences such as Vivatech, CES, the Global Private Capital Conference and SuperReturn and has appeared on television, radio and in print on venues such as Bloomberg, CNBC, France24, The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and PEI. William graduated with honors from Georgetown University. He is involved with a variety of non-profit organizations, serving as a director or trustee of Georgetown University, Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Initiative, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health at Stanford University, the Global Private Capital Association and Chairman of the board of St. Albans School in Washington, DC.

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Prior to Generate, Jonah led Breakthrough Energy a network founded by Bill Gates including investment funds, nonprofit and philanthropic programs, and policy efforts linked by a common commitment to scale the technologies we need to achieve a path to net zero emissions by 2050. During that time, he also served as Mr. Gates’s senior advisor for policy and government relations. Prior to Breakthrough Energy, Jonah spent nearly 15 years in Washington, D.C., leading integrated advocacy, communications, and grassroots campaigns. He led a series of policy efforts on a variety of issues – from civil rights to education reform to nuclear non-proliferation. Before that, he served as primary spokesperson and chief strategist for the largest national campaign to protect voting rights. Jonah holds a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School and a B.A. degree in History from Binghamton University. Jonah lives in Seattle with his wife Jackie and his two children, Desmond and Fiona.

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Aaron has 20+ years of global experience advising energy and infrastructure investors, operating companies, growth companies, developers and governments on core business strategy, investment strategy, financing strategy and capital deployment / infrastructure development and public private partnerships, value creation initiatives, technology roll out programs, transformations and restructurings in North America, Europe, Middle East and Latin America/Caribbean. Aaron has worked extensively across energy transition sectors (renewable power generation, battery storage, hydrogen, clean mobility, waste, water) and core infrastructure sectors (ports, airports, roads, logistics, power and water utilities) and is a frequent speaker and author on sustainable infrastructure financing topics. Prior to Generate Aaron was a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group leading work with infrastructure investors on portfolio value creation and supporting governments on large scale infrastructure development and construction programs. Prior to that Aaron was a Partner at McKinsey & Co. where he led large scale transformation programs at power and water utilities, supported development finance institutions and government agencies on infrastructure investment and funding strategy and supported infrastructure investors on strategy and performance improvement programs in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and North America and served on the Millenium Challenge Corporation’s private sector advisory board. During his work advising on the Puerto Rico sovereign restructurings, Aaron was appointed the Revitalization Coordinator for Puerto Rico by the Governor of Puerto Rico and the Federal Oversight Management Board. Prior to McKinsey Aaron was a Senior Associate at Latham & Watkins where he structured and executed project financings, leveraged financings, mergers and acquisitions and large-scale restructurings, including the restructuring of Dubai World for the Government of Dubai. While in Dubai, Aaron founded the Middle East’s first energy transition focused business group the Clean Energy Business Council MENA. Aaron was also an Investment Banking Associate in Credit Suisse’s Energy Group focused on infrastructure financings and M&A. Aaron was a Hamilton Scholar at Columbia Law School where he was awarded a J.D. and graduated from Brown University with a B.A. with Honors. He lives in Washington DC.

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Beginning in January 2013, Richard served in the Executive Chamber of Governor Cuomo as New York State’s first energy czar and oversaw the state’s energy agencies. He stepped down from that role in January 2019 while continuing as chairman of NYSERDA; as such, he remains energy adviser to Governor Cuomo’s administration. Previously, he was CEO of Good Energies, a leading investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Richard was also managing director and chaired the Global Financing Group at Goldman Sachs. He previously served as vice chairman of Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities business and co-head of its Banking Department. Richard has also served as the chairman of the board of Levi Strauss and on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Brookings Institution. Richard received an MA in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management, an MA in International Relations from Yale University, and a BA from Stanford University.

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Katie brings more than 10 years of experience in infrastructure & energy project finance. Prior to Generate, Katie was a Vice President in the Project, Infrastructure, and Principal Finance Group at Goldman Sachs within the Investment Banking Division. While at Goldman Sachs, Katie executed over $50 billion in debt financings across the renewable and conventional power generation, infrastructure, and broader natural resources sector for clients in the United States and Latin America. Katie has a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Prior to joining Generate Capital, Jessie worked across project acquisitions, capital origination, investor relations, and tax equity and debt structuring at Sol Systems. She also has experience in the renewable energy sector, including research positions at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and the Earth Policy Institute. Jessie graduated magna cum laude with honors from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with a Bachelor of Science, concentration in Energy and the Environment, and Certificate in International Development.

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Nam was responsible for SunPower’s Commercial Solar division, delivering approximately $500 million in revenues and number 1 market share in the U.S. Prior to that, Nam served as Senior Vice President and oversaw SunPower’s power plant business in Latin America, where she was responsible for the P&L, driving approximately 1GW of contracted pipeline and $1.5 billion in revenues. Prior to SunPower, Nam was Vice President of Global Business Development at First Solar. At First Solar, she led the sale and financing of the First Solar project pipeline, including raising $8 billion of financing, and various M&A activities. She also led the expansion of First Solar’s global platform and pipeline. Prior to First Solar, Nam was responsible for corporate development and strategy at a solar start-up OptiSolar, where she helped raise $300 million in venture funding and eventually led the sale of OptiSolar to First Solar. She has also held various roles in investment banking working in New York, Singapore and Los Angeles and is on Generac’s Board of Directors. Nam has a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar.

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Prior to WCA, he was the Chief Strategy Officer for Waste Management (WM) and then the President of WM Recycling where he oversaw WM’s organics business plus early-stage technology and services investments for four years. Before entering the waste management space, Bill was a principal at McKinsey & Company in Atlanta. During his 13-year tenure at McKinsey, Bill advised clients across a broad spectrum of industries on corporate strategy, growth initiatives, and performance improvement. Earlier in his career he also served as a Russian analyst at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. Bill holds a BA in Russian Studies from Colgate University, an MA in Russian Studies from Georgetown University, and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was awarded a Keller Scholar Fellowship and graduated as a Fuqua Scholar.

Prior to Generate, Logan joined BloombergNEF in 2010 and was Head of Clean Power research when he left in 2022. This was a 30-person group spanning solar, wind, energy storage and power grids. At BloombergNEF he previously worked as a solar analyst, built and led the Energy Storage team, and developed the firm’s first clean energy Index and ETF, in collaboration with Goldman Sachs. Logan is a regular writer, speaker and conference panellist on topics relating to the energy transition. He has an MA (Hons) in Arabic from Edinburgh University and in 2019 completed executive training in Supply Chain Management at Stanford GSB.

Peggy has led Generate’s community solar investment strategy over the last 5 years, building over 200 MW of project, and has 17 years of experience in renewable energy and finance. Prior to Generate Peggy was a director at SunEdision. She holds a BA from Columbia University in Environmental Science and Mathematics.

With over 10 years of experience in renewable energy and infrastructure investing, Ryan has been involved in over $5 billion in sustainable infrastructure transactions. Prior to joining Generate in 2021, Ryan was a Strategic Business Development Advisor at Shell New Energies, focusing on onshore renewable power project acquisitions and development partnerships. Prior to Shell, Ryan worked on JP Morgan’s tax equity team where he structured and executed complex tax equity transactions. Earlier in his career, he held various positions in banking and capital markets. Ryan holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech and is a CFA charterholder. He is based in Generate Capital’s New York City office and is an active member of the LGBTQIA employee resource group.

Prior to this, he was the Vice President of Global Infrastructure Planning and Deployment at Google, working on capacity planning and deployment for data center infrastructure. Prior to Google, he was at Salesforce where he helped the company grow from 300 to over 25k employees as the SVP of Infrastructure Engineering on Site Reliability and Capacity Planning. Benji is a graduate of Princeton University where he received his BSE in Computer Science.

Before joining Generate, Sarie led the asset management function at Longroad Energy, and in previous positions she held leadership roles in asset management at SunEdison and First Wind Energy, with portfolio sizes ranging from 1.3 to 2.6 GW and more than $2 billion in assets under management. Over the course of her career in renewables, Sarie has played a key role in many renewable energy firsts, including the first wind energy project in Hawaii, the first utility scale wind project to be coupled with utility scale battery storage, and the first wind project to be built on federal lands. Sarie holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on economics and management information systems from UC Berkeley.

Prior to Generate, Christian was a Partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners where he focused on transactions advancing virtual power plants. Leading up to his time at Sidewalk, Christian was a director of Venture Investments at Emerson Collective. Here, he focused on managing venture capital and growth equity investments across energy and environmental solutions including waste to energy, distributed energy resource management, and energy efficiency technologies. Christian has also worked for Denham Capital’s Energy Infrastructure platform investing in infrastructure development in emerging markets, and started his career in Goldman Sachs’ Natural Resources group. Christian holds an MBA and MS in Energy and Environmental Resources from Stanford University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Prior to Generate, he was a vice president of origination and structuring at Morgan Stanley, where he sat in the North America Power and Gas business on the commodities trading floor, investing the firm’s balance sheet into renewable energy assets. He spent more than six years at Morgan Stanley, primarily focused on originating, acquiring, developing, and financing solar PV projects across residential, commercial, industrial, and small utility scale, which included playing an integral role in more than $200 million of the first community solar portfolios institutionally financed in the United States. Ed began his career in renewable energy as a design engineer for both solar PV and solar hot-water-system integration in New York City. Ed holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering‐Energy Systems from Columbia University and a BS in Mathematics from Hamilton College.

Prior to Generate, Brian spent over two decades on global investment banking platforms, having acted as advisor, underwriter, principal and agent for private and public corporations in over $100 billion in debt, equity and structured transactions. Most recently, Brian established and led JP Morgan’s Green Economy banking franchise. Prior to that, he formed and ran JP Morgan’s Diversified Financials group. Before JP Morgan, Brian was Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Equity Linked Capital Markets group. Earlier in his career he also held positions at both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and UBS. Brian earned a BS and BA from Villanova University, an MPhil from Queens’ College, Cambridge University, and his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He is also a CFA charterholder and Trustee for the New Jersey Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

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She has also served as the chief operating officer of Larcen Consulting Group, where she grew and managed the operations group focused on delivering human-capital services to a portfolio of private-equity backed companies as well as large corporate organizations. While with Larcen, she also led the executive search strategy and execution for the portfolio of investments managed by Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco–based middle market private equity firm. Her corporate training comes from her time as the chief of staff for British Petroleum’s Wind and Solar business, as a director of large commercial solar projects for BP, and as a leader at NPower (a Microsoft-backed IT consulting start-up). Kristine was a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she received her MS in Management. She also received an MEd in Psychology from the University of North Carolina and a BA in Psychology and International Studies from Taylor University.

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Darryl brings more than 20 years of experience in tax-equity and debt financing of all types of energy assets, including hydroelectric facilities along the Danube, utility scale wind projects in California, and residential solar installations around the United States. A former chemical engineer focused on downstream waste treatment technologies, Darryl began his legal career at White & Case in New York, then moved to Dechert LLP in San Francisco to focus on structured finance and securitization. He served as an assistant general counsel for six years at Bank of America, where he helped launch the bank’s renewable energy finance and energy efficiency finance groups. Prior to joining Generate, Darryl was a managing director and deputy general counsel for a technology-enabled consumer finance company focused on solar energy, energy efficiency, and home improvements. Darryl earned a JD from Pace Law School and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University.

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Prior to Generate, he served as a Managing Director at an investment platform investing in renewable energy assets, and as Senior Vice President at NRG, leading the distributed generation and retail energy businesses. Jeff served as a Partner at Arborview Capital, investing in mid-market companies in the energy and sustainability sectors; as Executive Vice President at GridPoint, a private-equity backed energy management company; and in senior management roles at several private equity-backed services and technology companies. Jeff is a frequent speaker on energy and sustainability issues, and has appeared on television, radio and in print in venues such as CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. He has testified before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and several state public utility commissions. Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and has a law degree from the University of Virginia.

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Prior to Generate, Pietro was a Director at Onyx Renewable Partners, a Blackstone investment vehicle focused on renewable energy infrastructure in North America. Across his career Pietro has been responsible for over $1 Billion investments across the sustainability space from early-stage corporate equity to large, distributed asset acquisitions and financing. Pietro holds a MS/BS in environmental engineering form the Politecnico di Milano, a MS in renewable energy and climate policies from the Politecnico di Milano and, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

With more than 15 years of experience in the energy industry, Scott focuses on the emerging clean-mobility sector by accelerating the decarbonization of transportation. Prior to Generate Capital, Scott spent time at SunEdison, EDF-Renewable Energy, and the Lower Colorado River Authority where he developed, marketed, and structured several billion dollars for renewable energy and energy transition projects. Scott received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce from Washington and Lee University, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.