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Sharaf Islam
Sharaf is a trusted advisor to sponsors, developers, financial institutions, and institutional investors in complex finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has significant experience structuring and negotiating financing arrangements for large-scale projects, including renewable energy facilities, power plants, transmission systems, and digital infrastructure. He regularly leads transactions involving […]
Andy Bowman
Jupiter Power’s Chief Executive Officer, Andy Bowman, has been a clean energy entrepreneur since the 1990s. Bowman participated in some of the first utility-scale wind, then solar, and now energy storage projects ever financed in the U.S., and has started and led several successful energy companies. Bowman founded Jupiter in 2017 and has guided the company from idea, to start-up, to leading energy storage IPP. Bowman was previously CEO […]
Laura Klein
Laura Klein, a recognized expert in renewable energy finance and operations, is the COO/CFO of SolaREIT, where she leads financial strategy and drives innovative land solutions for the solar and energy storage sectors. With 20 years of experience in clean energy finance, project development, and policy, Laura plays a key role in advancing SolaREIT’s mission to offer flexible […]
John McNamara
John McNamara is the Senior Director of Structured Contracts at Clean Power Alliance (CPA), the nation’s leading green power provider and California’s largest Community Choice Aggregator. In this role, he oversees the procurement of long-term energy resources that support CPA’s growing and diverse energy portfolio. John leads the team responsible for the origination, negotiation, and […]
Joy Langford
Joy Langford is an accomplished energy, environmental, and public policy executive recognized for advancing large-scale clean energy, infrastructure, and sustainability initiatives across the United States. With deep expertise at the intersection of government, industry, and finance, she has built a reputation as a strategic leader capable of mobilizing complex partnerships, securing transformative funding, and driving […]
Owen Meaney
Brandon Edwards
Brandon Edwards is a Partner at Birch Risk Advisors, where he leads the team facilitating renewable energy tax credit transfer transactions. Prior to Birch, Brandon spent two decades leading Tax Credit Co. (TCC), a tax credit advisory and technology-enabled services firm serving the Fortune 500. He completed two strategic acquisitions — Incentives Advisors and uConfirm […]
Bart White
Durham McCormick
Durham serves as a co-leader of the firm’s Renewable Energy Practice Group. He focuses his practice on tax structuring for renewable energy transactions, with a particular emphasis on production tax credits (PTC), investment tax credits (ITC), project financing and tax credit transfers. Durham’s renewable energy experience includes project developments, joint ownership arrangements, power purchase agreements, […]
