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Access to Capital: Future Strategies to Support Advanced Energy

Speaker Series Session02 09.10.20 Title Slide

The proposed federal Clean Energy Jobs Act would provide a targeted investment of public capital to leverage greater private capital funding for clean energy infrastructure, as part of an economic recovery strategy. What is the likelihood of a related bill passing in the political environment today? How will Maryland state leaders strategically target the investment of available resources to meet energy and greenhouse goals with the economic conditions faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? Will private capital markets remain engaged in the energy sector, and will impact investing continue to trend? Cash in on info offered during this important session!

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Mike Gill

Chairman
Evergreen Advisors

Mike Gill

Chairman
Evergreen Advisors

Mike Gill serves as Chairman of Evergreen Advisors, LLC. Mike is a business leader with four decades of experience as an entrepreneur, a veteran of large technology firms, and a public servant.

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PANELISTS

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Trenton Allen

Managing Director & CEO
Sustainable Capital Advisors

Trenton Allen

Managing Director & CEO
Sustainable Capital Advisors

Mr. Allen is Managing Director and CEO of Sustainable Capital Advisors. Mr. Allen founded SCA in 2012, to build upon his successful career in the financial services industry as an investment banker and financial advisor. Throughout his career, Mr. Allen has participated in over $30 Billion of financings, including public debt offerings and private placements (debt and equity). Prior to SCA, Mr. Allen was a Director at Citi where he led efforts to finance large infrastructure projects including water, wastewater, conventional and renewable energy and energy efficiency for utility, commercial and governmental clients. Mr. Allen led one of the United States first “green bond’ issuances with the groundbreaking $67 million Energy Efficiency Revenue Bond financing for the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (“SEU”) which provided a scaled capital markets solution for financing pooled energy efficiency projects. Currently, Mr. Allen is leading client engagements focused on developing innovative capital solutions for the sustainable infrastructure projects including, inclusive solar finance, pooled energy efficiency finance for multi-family affordable housing, subscriber-based community solar, climate resiliency infrastructure finance, municipal green financing authorities, smart cities P3 infrastructure finance, and more.

Mr. Allen is a frequent speaker at major energy and infrastructure conferences and is widely regarded as a thought leader in the financing of clean energy projects. Mr. Allen served as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Delaware, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, teaching a graduate level course “Sustainable Infrastructure Finance” which covered financing structures and strategies utilized in developing domestic and international sustainable energy projects, including solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, water and energy efficiency. Mr. Allen serves on the boards of CleanEnergyWorks and the National Energy and Water Infrastructure Exchange. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Harvard College where he majored in chemistry.

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Bessie Clark

Director - Private Investment Team
Hannon Armstrong

Bessie Clark

Director - Private Investment Team
Hannon Armstrong 

Bessie Clark is a director Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in climate change solutions. As member of the private sector investment team, she focuses on the firm’s solar and wind transactions, including equity investments, joint ventures, lending, and other financing structures. Previously, she worked in project finance at SunEdison, focusing on commercial and industrial scale solar, and in structured finance at UBS in New York. Ms. Clark holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and is CFA Charterholder.

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Jeffrey Schub

Executive Director
Coalition for Green Capital

Jeffrey Schub

Executive Director
Coalition for Green Capital

Jeffrey Schub is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC), the leading expert and creator of green bank finance institutions that use public capital to accelerate private investment to halt climate change. CGC works in the U.S. and in developing countries to form and operate green banks. Institutions supported by CGC in the U.S. have driven over $5 billion of investment into renewable power, building efficiency and other mitigation technologies. Jeff leads the organization's development, fundraising and project management. Jeff speaks regularly around the world on green banks and blended finance, including events hosted by the White House, U.S. DOE, OECD and ACEEE, among others. He has lectured at Yale and Columbia Universities and is a Visiting Expert at the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale.

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Jigar Shah

President & Co-Founder
Generate Capital

Jigar Shah

President & Co-Founder
Generate Capital

Jigar Shah is the President and Co-Founder of Generate Capital, the leading investment and operating platform for sustainable infrastructure. Founded in 2014, Generate Capital is the only "one-stop-shop" for pioneers leading the Resource Revolution.

Prior to Generate, as the Founder and CEO of SunEdison (NASDAQ: SUNE), Shah pioneered "no money down solar", which unlocked a multi-billion-dollar solar market and became the largest solar services company worldwide before its acquisition by MEMC. Shah is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy. After SunEdison, Shah served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change.

Shah's decades of experience in renewable energy consistently show that business model innovation and entrepreneurship are two of the keys to proving that sustainability pays.

Shah holds an M.B.A. from The University of Maryland and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

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