Chris Matos is an accomplished energy and sustainability professional with over a decade of experience navigating the complexities of the electric utility industry. His expertise spans wholesale power contracts, regulatory affairs, settlement models, and environmental markets, with experience in every major US ISO/RTO and several international markets. Currently, Chris drives Google's energy strategy in the Central U.S. by leading evaluations of regulatory and policy environments.

Craig McKesson is a senior executive and digital infrastructure leader with more than 30 years of experience spanning data centers, mission-critical operations, and infrastructure strategy. He currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer of Takanock LLC, a next-generation platform backed by DigitalBridge and ArcLight Capital Partners, focused on delivering scalable, power-enabled data center sites to support hyperscale and AI-driven demand across the U.S.

Prior to Takanock, Craig spent over a decade helping build T5 Data Centers into a leading full-lifecycle data center services company, most recently as EVP of Global Sales and Marketing. There, he led global commercial strategy and sustainability initiatives, earning recognition as an Infrastructure Masons IM100 honoree.

Earlier in his career, Craig served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, working on Delta II/GPS satellite launch programs. He holds an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami (FL).

Antonio has a master's degree in Aerospace engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal) and from the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). He worked several years for EDP's corporate strategy team with a broad range of responsibilities on power market modeling and long-term forecast, energy policy advisory and business case definition for utility and small-scale renewables and battery storage. He is the responsible for EDP's Hydrogen Strategy in North America since 2021 and now has expanded its responsibilities to lead all development activities on co-location and powered land for utility-scale projects.

Rohit represents over 25 of the world’s leading renewables and energy storage developers on project development and project M&A arrangements.

Rohit has extensive experience in the solar, wind, energy storage, and biofuel sectors, and has advised on numerous award-winning transactions. He is recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in the Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy category. Rohit’s clients describe him as “excellent,” “knowledgeable,” “timely in his work,” “commercially-oriented,” “very plugged into the market” with a “great demeanor."

In recent years, Rohit's practice has focused particularly on project development and project M&A transactions. He has successfully negotiated many GWs of "physical" and "virtual" PPAs and tolling agreements, as well as a variety of construction, supply and other development arrangements. Rohit has also represented clients on the purchase and sale of renewables projects in various U.S. jurisdictions, as well as joint venture and other project asset arrangements. He has particularly focused on the development, financing and sale of domestic and international energy storage projects, including stand-alone, hybrid, front-of-meter and behind-the-meter projects.

Rohit co-leads Orrick’s South Asian Inclusion Network and served as a Fellow for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

He started his legal career at an international law firm in New York, where he focused on project development and project finance transactions across the globe. Prior to law and business schools, Rohit was an investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse in San Francisco where he provided M&A and financial advisory services to technology companies in Silicon Valley.

Mike Grunow is General Manager of Data Centers at Scale Microgrids, where he leads the development of integrated power solutions for hyperscale and AI data center campuses. He previously served as CEO of RELOAD, a platform focused on colocated power infrastructure for next-generation data centers that was acquired by Scale. Mike has spent more than two decades at the intersection of energy infrastructure, project development, and capital markets. At Crossover Energy Partners, he focused on structuring and financing first-of-a-kind power assets for infrastructure fund investors. Earlier in his career he held leadership roles at Trina Solar and GE Power. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.   

Holly Adams is Senior Vice President of Energy on Beale’s development team, bringing more than 18 years of experience developing and delivering large scale generation and transmission infrastructure projects with a focus on renewable generation. Prior to Beale, Holly served as Vice President of Origination at Pattern Energy and President of GridLiance High Plains at NextEra Energy.

Earlier, she was Vice President of Origination at Avangrid Renewables. Before joining the clean energy industry, Holly served in the United States Air Force where she attained the rank of captain and received multiple awards and recognitions for outstanding service.

Arushi Jain is a Manager in CohnReznick Advisory Group’s Valuation Advisory Services practice and is based in the New York office. CohnReznick performs valuation and financial advisory engagements for mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity funding, buy/sell, equity based compensation, financial reporting, estate and income tax purposes, litigation support, and strategic planning. Arushi has particular expertise related to valuation, fair value purchase price allocations, and cost segregations of power and energy assets.

Arushi specializes in appraisals of tangible assets in mainly domestic valuation projects, but also has some hands-on experience in dealing with international valuation projects. These appraisals are performed for a variety of purposes, including purchase price allocations, cost segregation, managing and financial reporting, and mergers and acquisitions. Arushi is currently pursuing her accreditation as an Accredited Senior Appraiser (“ASA”) in the discipline of Machinery and Technical Specialties with the American Society of Appraisers.

Arushi has experience in performing valuations for projects related to the following technologies: Renewables (Solar, Wind, Hydropower), Landfill/Biomass, Coal-fired, Nuclear, Municipal Solid Waste, Oil & Gas Midstream and Downstream Assets, Natural Gas-fired Combustion (Combined Cycle, Cogeneration, Simple Cycle).

Lance has over 30 years of experience in commodities trading, origination, structuring, and risk management, where he commercialized enterprises, commoditized markets, and created material enterprise value. He possesses extensive knowledge in the marketing and trading of electricity, natural gas, carbon, emissions, coal, oil, renewables, hydrogen, ammonia, and the financing and development of energy projects. Having founded several energy trading platforms, he has concluded over $20 billion in transactions across energy and environmental commodities and structured products, including contracted offtake of over 4 GW of power supply.

Lance is the former Senior Managing Director and Head of New Energies, Americas at Uniper Global Commodities where he accelerated Uniper’s clean and low-carbon energy businesses, including the development and commercialization of hydrogen and ammonia opportunities for domestic and international exports from the Americas. Titus holds an M.B.A. from the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business, B.S. degrees in Finance and Marketing, and has completed post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also serves on the University of Colorado’s J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities Advisory Council, and the Advisory Board for the Commodity Insights Digest at Bayes Business School, University of London

Claire Behar joined Foss & Company as Vice President of Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technologies, where she leads the origination and structuring of renewable energy tax equity and transfer credit transactions while fostering strategic relationships with project developers. She brings over a decade of experience across energy markets—including trading, structuring, project development, and commercial strategy. Prior to joining Foss & Company, she served as an executive and founding member of a renewable hydrogen startup. She began her career in natural gas trading at a global commodities trading firm. She is a respected speaker and thought leader on energy markets and decarbonization, having presented at leading international conferences such as COP28. Claire graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Geological Engineering and is a member of the NREL Energy Executive Leadership Class of 2022.

Stephen Fernands is Founder and President of Customized Energy Solutions. Since Customized Energy Solutions founding in 1998 it has helped thousands of companies understand wholesale and retail electric and natural gas market and implement solutions through its hosted software platforms.  INC magazine ranked Customized Energy Solutions as one of the fasted growing companies in the United States from 2005 through 2015 and in 2008 it was the 15th fastest growing private company in the energy industry.  Stephen has led the expansion of Customized Energy Solutions from a Mid-Atlantic based energy services firm to one that provides comprehensive solutions throughout the US, Canada, India and Japan.

As President, Stephen has focused on developing competitive wholesale and retail energy markets and development of software that enables innovation in the areas of retail competition, demand response program development, supply procurement, generation development, and transmission congestion analysis. Stephen has a BS in economics from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA in Finance from Drexel University.

Andy Bowman has been a clean energy entrepreneur since the late 1990s. His nearly 30 year career spans from the early days of renewable technologies – he helped execute some of the first utility scale wind, then solar and now energy storage projects to be financed in the U.S. – to today’s era of renewables dominating power markets. Andy is CEO and founder of Jupiter Power LLC, a pioneering energy storage company started in 2017 which has nearly 8GWh of BESS projects operating and in construction and 12GW in development. Prior to Jupiter, Bowman was CEO and founder of Pioneer Green Energy LLC (2009-15), Chief Development Officer at E.On Climate & Renewables (now RWE Clean Energy) (2007-2009), SVP Development at Airtricity (2004-2007), and CEO and founder of Renewable Generation Inc. (2001-2004). He is also author of The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World, the updated second edition of which was published in November 2023.

With more than a decade of experience in the energy industry, Anthony Sibilia serves as the Chief Development Officer at Primergy, where he oversees both Development and Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining Primergy, Anthony led the Renewable Project Acquisition group at NextEra Energy Resources.

Throughout his career, he has been directly involved in the acquisition of 15 gigawatts (GW) of development-stage solar and storage projects. Anthony’s expertise spans the full lifecycle of energy development, enabling him to effectively navigate regulatory, financial, and operational risks and opportunities in large-scale projects.

He also serves on the board of Children’s Home Society of Florida, Palm Beach, a community organization focused on empowering families through early childhood services and job training programs. 

Ken is the Founder and CEO of NPM, based in Princeton.

Prior to starting NPM in 2019, Ken oversaw multiple global data and intel products marketed to fixed income market professionals including Debtwire, Xtract Research and Creditflux.

He is also proud to report that he recently became a truck guy for the first time by overcoming a severe case of EV range anxiety and is settling nicely into life with a Rivian R1T.

As Director of Origination & Power Marketing, Erik Ejups is responsible for the sale and negotiation of long-term renewable energy transactions for EDF’s pipeline of wind, solar, and storage assets. Erik joined the EDFR in early 2019 and has negotiated and closed structured power transactions with leading corporate and utility buyers of renewable energy products across the United States. Prior to joining EDFR, Erik worked in Chicago, trading quantitative equity option strategies. Erik is a CFA® charter holder and earned his BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Scott is a partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm's energy and climate solutions practice. He represents leading and emerging companies that are decarbonizing the global economy. He assists his clients developing technology innovations and building the next generation of projects in the solar, wind, energy storage, nuclear, CCUS, green hydrogen, electrification, energy efficiency, water, and distributed energy resources industries.

Scott advises new and established companies and their investors on issues affecting the energy, infrastructure, decarbonization, and clean tech industries, including all aspects of project development, joint ventures, debt and tax equity project finance, private equity, structured finance, and start-up counseling. He has supported enterprises and institutions across the globe involved in financing, developing, and regulating energy technology and infrastructure. Scott is an active contributor to the firm's pro bono activities, representing nonprofits in the energy, climate, health, and environmental fields.

Scott brings more than 25 years of experience working in the energy industry to his practice. He was a process engineer for Fluor Corporation, where he supported the design and construction of international oil and gas facilities. Subsequently, Scott led the product development team at a start-up software company, developing solutions to improve the design, operation, and maintenance of large energy facilities. Scott teaches Energy Project Development and Finance at UC Berkeley School of Law.

As SVP, Origination at Origis Energy, David leads strategic partnership development, PPA executions, and power solutions for hyperscalers, utilities and institutions across the country. David is a veteran of the power generation industry, leading over 10 GW of greenfield developments, 3 GW of acquisitions, and 5 GW of successful PPA negotiations/executions. David's 20 year power history includes project development and commercialization across wind, solar, BESS and natural gas infrastructure.

Lucy is an accomplished leader with a robust background in energy and sustainability. Prior to XGS, Lucy served as a Principal at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she specialized in the Energy, Climate & Sustainability, and Public Sector practices. At BCG, Lucy led clean energy studies and investment strategies for renewable energy developers, utilities, integrated energy companies, and large-scale energy consumers globally. Lucy holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where she authored over 25 technical papers in materials science for energy and computing applications. Her unique blend of technical expertise and strategic vision positions her as a driving force in advancing XGS’s commercial initiatives and expanding its impact in the renewable energy sector.

Chris Matos is an accomplished energy and sustainability professional with over a decade of experience navigating the complexities of the electric utility industry. His expertise spans wholesale power contracts, regulatory affairs, settlement models, and environmental markets, with experience in every major US ISO/RTO and several international markets. Currently, Chris drives Google's energy strategy in the Central U.S. by leading evaluations of regulatory and policy environments.

David is Director of Energy Portfolio Management at CoreWeave.

Tyler is Managing Director on KeyBanc Capital Markets’ Utilities, Power & Renewable Energy Investment Banking team. He has more than 10 years of experience raising capital and providing advisory services to developers and sponsors in the renewable energy industry. Tyler holds a BSBA from The Ohio State University in Accounting and is a registered representative of KeyBanc Capital Markets with Series 79 and Series 63 designations.

Brooks Friedeman is the Vice President of Capital Markets for Clearway Energy Group, where he oversees all project capital raising activities for the organization. Prior to joining Clearway in 2018, Brooks spent over a decade in progressively senior roles within the project and structured finance, starting at Invenergy, then BrightSource, and finally at SunPower. Brooks has led or overseen the structuring, debt financing, tax equity, and sale processes for over twenty utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects, representing more than 3.5 GW and $6.5 billion of capital raised. In addition to project financing, Brooks led or held key roles in several corporate transactions, including the structuring and IPO of 8point3 Energy Partners and the sale of SunPower’s utility-scale pipeline to Clearway. Before entering the renewable energy field, Brooks structured securitized investments at the Bank of New York. Brooks graduated from Lake Forest College with a bachelor’s degree in finance.

Mak Nagle is the Head of Strategy for Elmya’s North American division, playing a key role in the company’s growth into the U.S. market. He leads efforts to build a solid pipeline of over 4 GW in solar, wind, and energy storage projects, focusing on the growing needs of the U.S. data center sector. In this role, Mak offers both technical and strategic direction for the company, working closely with industry partners and suppliers.

Before joining Elmya, Mak served as Chief Developer Officer at SolSystems, where he oversaw project origination—either through new developments or acquisitions—and led them to financing. At Pine Gate Renewables, Mak managed solar and storage development teams responsible for project siting, grid integration, market strategy, and energy storage. Under his leadership, Pine Gate expanded its reach to more than 30 GW across 30 states and brought online over 2 GW of projects, some featuring paired storage solutions. Earlier, Mak also held senior roles at AES and Apex Clean Energy.

Bringing more than 25 years of expertise, Mak specializes in project development, origination, power marketing, market design, transmission operations, and planning. He also advises on technical matters and emerging technologies such as energy storage and grid-enhancing technologies, always seeking innovative value propositions for clients.

Before entering the renewable space, Mak worked at Southwest Power Pool—a Regional Transmission Organization—where he helped design their Day 2 energy market and led technical studies, planning, and compliance teams. Additionally, he spent over six years as a planning engineer with Entergy’s Transmission group, participating in electric grid restoration following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Mak earned his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Bryan Didier is a Partner and the Managing Director of Energy at Monarch Private Capital. In addition to nearly two decades of legal experience in renewable energy and project finance, Bryan brings over 30 years of leadership experience to his role, including over 20 years of service as an officer in the US Navy. 

Bryan leads and manages Monarch’s energy tax practice, overseeing the origination and closing of transactions, working closely with investors, and serving as the primary point of contact for developers and service providers in the rapidly expanding “all-of-the-above” energy field. He is a frequent lecturer, speaker, and panelist at industry conferences and continuing legal education programs, including most recently on the policy, financial, and market impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill. Bryan currently serves on several boards, including on the Board of Directors for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Catholic Charities of NE Kansas Foundation; he is also an active member of the Renewable Energy Working Group, having contributed to several recent Congressional and Treasury letters.

Prior to joining Monarch, Bryan was a partner at Leverage Law Group, LLC, where since 2009 he developed and led the firm’s renewable energy practice with a particular emphasis on tax-credit-incentivized renewable energy transactions. His diverse client portfolio included tax credit investors, syndicators, renewable energy developers, lenders and non-tax equity investors. Bryan also has substantial experience in project finance and corporate governance, having previously served as in-house counsel at a publicly-held utility and a large private chemical manufacturer.

Before and during his civilian legal career, Bryan served for over 20 years on active and reserve duty in the US Navy, retiring with the rank of Commander. Assignments included multiple deployments to the Arabian Gulf as a helicopter pilot, a tour as an Admiral’s aide, instructor pilot duty, and billets in anti-terrorism and domestic casualty response. His military background instilled in him a strong sense of discipline, strategic thinking and leadership.

Bryan graduated first in his class from the University of Kansas School of Law, received a BS in English with a French Minor from the United States Naval Academy, as well as a MS in Management from Troy State University.

Supria Ranade is Executive Director, US Power Origination at JP Morgan Chase Bank NA. She has more than 15 years of experience in the North American power, gas, and environmental markets. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mrs. Ranade worked on structured transactions at SB Energy, Lightsource BP, Direct Energy, BGC Partners, and Evolution Markets. She received her B.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, and a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.

Jon Berke is the Managing Editor of New Project Media, where he covers capital markets activity across all of the major renewable generation verticals. He has been covering alternative asset classes over the course of his 20-year career in journalism, including of infrastructure and private credit.

Ike Emehelu, co-head of Akin’s Projects & Energy Transition practice, is a trusted authority in energy and infrastructure transactions, with extensive experience advising clients on complex financings, joint ventures, and development projects across the energy spectrum. Ike regularly counsels leading energy companies, financial institutions, and investors on structuring and executing innovative deals in conventional power, renewable energy, and emerging energy transition technologies. His collaborative approach and deep industry knowledge enable clients to navigate critical challenges and achieve their strategic objectives in an evolving market.

Nathan Serota is a Vice President, Digital Infrastructure, at Blue Owl Capital, one of the largest private data center investment platforms in the US, EMEA and APAC. At Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure (BODI), Nate is responsible for energy supply strategy and power-focused development activities. He has over a decade of experience in clean energy and digital infrastructure. Prior to BODI, he was on Google’s energy team, where he led carbon-free energy transactions and hyperscale data center growth initiatives. Before that, he held clean energy investment and development roles at D. E. Shaw and Lightsource bp. Nate holds an MBA from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science from Princeton University

Alex Tingle is an investment banker in the Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group at Goldman Sachs, responsible for coverage of digital infrastructure, communications, and media sectors, including leadership of the data center franchise.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2021, Alex was an investment banker with UBS for 9 years covering TMT companies. While at UBS, he also helped launch its Private Financing Markets group.

Alex is passionate about the recruiting and retention of diverse young talent on Wall Street. At Goldman Sachs, outside of his role as a TMT banker, he leads the firm’s LGBTQ+ client engagement efforts. Business Insider recognized Alex as one of 25 “Rising Stars of Wall Street,” TMT Finance shortlisted Alex twice as a “Rising Star in M&A,” and his work around recruiting and talent retention has also been profiled in American Banker.

Alex lives in New York City and graduated from Boston College, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science. Outside of the firm, he is a firefighter with the Fire Island Pines Fire Department.

Nick Drayson is a Vice President, Investments, at Brookfield Asset Management (“Brookfield”). At Brookfield, Nick is a member of the Infrastructure Credit platform, which targets a broad range of credit investments for infrastructure assets and businesses across Brookfield’s core sectors, including renewable power and data infrastructure. Prior to joining Brookfield, Nick was an investment banker for 9 years, including roles at Javelin Capital, Greenhill, and BNP Paribas, where he advised companies in energy, infrastructure and other sectors on financing, restructuring and M&A transactions. Nick lives in New York City, holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Northwestern University.

Khalil is a Director in the Igneo Infrastructure Partners team based in New York. Khalil is responsible for transaction origination and execution in North America and related asset management activities. Khalil currently sits on the board of US Signal. Prior to joining the team in 2019, Khalil worked at Antarctica Capital and Ancala Partners, middle-market infrastructure funds focused on transportation, utilities, renewables and midstream. Khalil holds a MEng in Industrial Engineering from INSA Lyon in France, a Master’s Degree in Finance from EM Lyon Business School, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Paul Dieras is a Director in MUFG’s Project Finance Energy and Infrastructure group with 18 years of experience financing large‑scale infrastructure assets across North America. He has raised over $10 billion in debt financing for data center projects over the past two years and works closely with leading data center developers on projects incorporating behind‑the‑meter power solutions. Paul holds engineering and business master’s degrees from INSA Lyon and ESSEC Business School. He began his career at Société Générale.