Bio

Primary area of expertise: origination, structuring, and execution of limited-recourse and non-recourse financings. Currently I am a Managing Director, Project Finance Americas at Rabobank, New York Branch. Prior to that I was a Senior Director, Project Finance at BayernLB covering renewables as well as Director, Project Finance with Mizuho Bank's Project Finance team in New York, focusing on power, renewables - wind, solar, DG solar, gas-fired thermal generation), and infrastructure (Canadian PPP, pipelines, HDVC and conventional transmission incl. CREZ; toll roads, airports, hospitals, telecom, marine port terminals and logistics parks). Before joining Mizuho (one of the three Japanese mega-banks), I spent six and a half years with Citigroup's Corporate and Investment Bank (Power & Utilities / Industrial / General Corporate groups). Prior to that, I was an Financial Associate for two years with PwC Financial Advisory Services consulting team. Additional info: Graduated from NYU Stern (full-time) MBA program in May of 2006. Specialties: project finance, non-recourse financing, commercial banking and lending, banker, lender, debt financing, debt sizing, wind financing, solar, thermo, greenfield, brownfield, Japanese mega-bank, project structuring, funding, risk identification and allocation, operational issues, PPA agreement, power purchase agreement, capacity payments, availability structure, toll agreement, term sheet negotiation, document negotiation, transmission, pipelines, PPP, IE, IA, GIA, sponsor, offtaker, off-taker