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We are a newly organized blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

While our efforts to identify a prospective target business will not necessarily be limited to a particular industry, sector, or region, we intend to capitalize on the expertise of our management team, board, and advisors in the clean and renewable energy industry. Our goal is to identify and pursue businesses that participate in the global energy transition ecosystem that are facilitating the way that energy is produced, stored, transmitted, distributed, and consumed, all while reducing or mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Founders

Alex Greystoke

Alex Greystoke

Co-Founder
David Saab

David Saab

Co-Founder

Alex Greystoke

Co-Founder

Alex Greystoke serves as a member of our Advisory Board and is one of our founders. Mr. Greystoke is a successful serial entrepreneur with a breadth of skills in a diverse range of industries. He is a founder and member of the advisory board of Goal Acquisitions Corp. (Nasdaq: PUCKU), a special purpose acquisition company that raised $258 million through its initial public offering in February 2021 and is focused on acquiring a company in the sports entertainment industry.

Mr. Greystoke is also on the board of Springwater Special Situations Corp (Nasdaq: SWSSU), a special purpose acquisition company that raised $168 million through its initial public offering in August 2021 and is focused on acquiring a company in the European special situation sector. Mr. Greystoke is the founder of multiple artificial intelligence technology companies including TripChamp, VacationChamp and TravelChamp. He is the inventor of three granted artificial intelligence patents, with eight pending patent applications. Mr. Greystoke is also an investor in real estate, food and beverage, technology and other sectors. Mr. Greystoke founded HSC, a boutique corporate finance business that raises money for and helps emerging companies commercialize in a range of sectors including technology, energy, healthcare and consumer products, and advises a number of family offices globally, utilizing his wide network of partners throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. In early 2000s, Mr. Greystoke has served on the boards of directors of numerous companies in the education, technology, artificial intelligence and renewable energy spaces, and has served as the Chairman to Asia Medical Glass listed in the United Kingdom.

David Saab

Co-Founder

David Saab serves as a member of our Advisory Board and is one of our founders. Mr. Saab is a successful serial entrepreneur in different businesses and has extensive experience in the financial industry. He started his career in January 2005 working in fixed income trading at JP Morgan. He then worked for Rothschild multi-asset solutions from December 2007 to June 2011, managing portfolios for international institutional clients and Ultra High Net Worth clients. He rejoined JP Morgan in 2011 and became one of the youngest Managing Directors in the private bank. He was elected Fixed Income personality of the year in the United Kingdom in 2017.

In 2018, Mr. Saab cofounded Aperture Investors, in which Generali Investments committed a $4 billion seed investment. Aperture Investments was a new asset manager aiming to disrupt the financial market by aligning fees paid by the clients with performance generated by portfolio managers. More recently, in May 2021 he established Alumia, a platform that helps asset managers raise assets in the international market. Mr. Saab acts as an advisor to a large number of institutional investors and family offices around the world. He successfully worked on very complex transactions in different sectors, helping principals sell or restructure their businesses. He is co-founder and director of several financial companies, including UFP Jump Start and Alumia SMRF.

Executive Team

Nicholas Parker

Nicholas Parker

Executive Chairman
Aaron T. Ratner

Aaron T. Ratner

CEO
Martha F. Ross

Martha F. Ross

CFO & COO

Nicholas Parker

Executive Chairman

Nicholas Parker serves as our Executive Chairman. Since 2002, Mr. Parker has served as Chairman of Toronto-based Parker Venture Management Inc., a private company through which he controls investments in, and advises on, clean and smart technology businesses and platforms globally, including previously serving as chairman of UGE International LTD (TSX:UGE), a public solar renewable energy development company. From January 2014 to September 2019, Mr. Parker served as Managing Partner of Global Acceleration Partners Inc., an Asia-focused technology cooperation platform in the energy, environment and water sectors.From 2002 to 2013, Mr. Parker was Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Cleantech Group LLC, a San Francisco-based research and consulting and convening firm that created and served the worldwide cleantech innovation community, which he successfully sold in 2009, with partial turnout through 2011. During his tenure at Cleantech Group, its startup clients raised over $6 billion from investors. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Parker was Co-founder and Principal of Emerald Technology Ventures, a leading trans-Atlantic venture manager focused on energy and resource productivity. During this period, Mr. Parker led an investment in Evergreen Solar, which in 2000 became the second solar initial public offering to be listed on Nasdaq. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Parker was Senior Vice President of Environmental Capital Corporation, a Boston-based investment company majority-owned by Maurice Strong and his family.Mr. Parker started his business career in 1988 as Co-founder and President of The Delphi Group, one of Canada’s leading environmental strategy firms, through which he built and sold its London-based corporate finance arm. Mr. Parker holds a B.A. Hons in Technology Studies from Carleton University and a Master’s in Business Administration in International Business from the CASS Business School, London.

Aaron T. Ratner

CEO

Aaron T. Ratner serves as our Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ratner brings over 20 years of global investment and development experience. Since 2022 he has been an Advisor to Cross River Infrastructure Partners. From July 2020 to January 2022, Mr. Ratner was the President of Cross River Infrastructure Partners LLC, a platform of development companies deploying climate technology into sustainable infrastructure projects across carbon capture, hydrogen, advanced small modular nuclear energy, and sustainable alternative protein. From November 2017 to present, Mr. Ratner has served as the ClimateTech Venture Partner at Vectr Ventures (“Vectr”), a Hong Kong-based venture capital investment fund manager. While at Vectr he has led investments in carbon utilization and transformation, pollination technology and sustainable protein production. From June 2016 to April 2020, Mr. Ratner was the Director and then the Managing Director, and Head of Origination, of Ultra Capital LLC, a sustainable infrastructure project finance investment fund manager. During that time, he led the firm’s activity in renewable natural gas and agriculture waste-to-value. From November 2014 to June 2016, Mr. Ratner was a Developer in Residence at Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure investment company based in San Francisco. While atGenerate Capital he led investments in renewable natural gas and organic carbon production. From October 2012 to December 2014, Mr. Ratner was the President of i2 Capital Group, an impact investment merchant bank, where he worked on land conservation and mitigation banking, including the Sweetwater River Conservancy, at the time one of the largest mitigation banking projects in the United States. From May 2008 to December 2014, Mr. Ratner was a Managing Partner of Laguna Capital Partners, a principal investment and advisory firm based in Los Angeles where he focused on technology and consumer startups. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Ratner was an Associate with Simon Murray & Company, a multi-strategy investment firm based in Hong Kong, SAR. Mr. Ratner began his career in 1999 as an analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch in Palo Alto, California, where he worked on financings for Internet Capital Group, Webvan and other early internet companies. Mr. Ratner holds aB.A. degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania, and a Master’s of Science in Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Martha F. Ross

CFO & COO

Martha F. Ross serves as our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Ross brings over 25 years of global financial, strategic growth and accounting leadership experience in tech, manufacturing, communications, banking and electric power generation, including expertise in various government-funded and regulated industries. Her career expertise is helping organizations scale through high growth and high change, whether organically, through mergers and acquisitions or significant business model changes involving outside investors. From January 2021 to present, she has been founder and Chief Executive Officer of Renaissance Knowledge LLC, specializing in chief financial officer, chief operations officer and business process improvement consulting.

From May 2017 to October 2020, Ms. Ross served as Chief Financial Officer for the Housing Authority of the City of Austin, with annual revenues over $540 million, where she drove strategies aimed at safeguarding property, investments and funds to improve governance for more than 20,000 residents. She also led operational and programmatic finance strategy, focusing on infrastructure modernization, to meet the needs of the fastest growing metropolitan city in America. From 2012 to 2016, Ms. Ross served as Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Central Region, for Hill and Knowlton Strategies, a subsidiary of WPP plc (NYSE: WPP), where she oversaw reporting to the parent company for their public reporting and streamlining and strengthening accounting, financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit controls.

From 2004 to 2011 she was Business Unit Manager for Wholesale Power Services and Shared Services at the Lower Colorado River Authority, supporting $1.2 billion in revenues and $4.7 billion in assets, including budgeting and capital planning for electric power generation. Previously, she held various financial leadership roles while working at Dell Inc. for nine years while it was publicly traded on Nasdaq, during which time she was responsible for global commercial account revenues, working with external auditors and financial reporting. She started her career in banking as a commercial lender in a holding company since acquired by Chase. Ms. Ross is a Texas Certified Public Accountant based in Austin, is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is designated as an International Mergers and Acquisitions Professional by the Institute for Mergers Acquisitions and Alliances. She attended The University of Texas and obtained both a Bachelor’s in Business Administration in Accounting and a Master’s in Science in Technology Commercialization.

Board of Directors

Michael R. Vahrenkamp

Michael R. Vahrenkamp

Board Member
Bradford Allen

Bradford Allen

Board Member
Candice Beaumont

Candice Beaumont

Board Member

Michael R. Vahrenkamp

Board Member

Michael R. Vahrenkamp serves as a member of our board of directors. Mr. Vahrenkamp brings over 25 years of international technology and environmental services experience as a company builder and developer, a cultural relationship builder and innovative solution finder. From August 2018 to April 2020, he served as a Co-founder of ecoworks GmbH, where he started and developed a construction solution provider targeting the refurbishment of multifamily houses in Germany to a net zero standard using a serial pre-production approach. Prior to ecoworks GmbH, from December 2015 to April 2018, Mr. Vahrenkamp worked as an investment manager with the Green Growth Fund 1 on financial restructuring towards triple bottom line results (focusing on social and environmental concerns), international expansion, cultural bridging and team efficiency.

From 2010 to 2015, as Chief Executive Officer of STEAG Energy Services do Brasil, he developed the local service company into an established regional service provider and project developer with a strategic shift towards renewable energies, especially large biomass, industry scale cogeneration and small solar and hydro energy generation plants in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Previously, from 2004 until 2009, Mr. Vahrenkamp ran his own investment and service company, econetworks ltda., where he invested as an angel and seed investor in technology companies and projects, and where he led the M&A and post-merger integration process of two industrial water service companies into the FOXX HAZTECH Group. From 1997 to 2003, as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Globaststar do Brasil, an EADS and LORAL Space company, he implemented and operated a low-earth- orbit satellite telephony and data network services in Brazil. Mr. Vahrenkamp is based in Berlin, Germany, where he holds a Master’s of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and is a long time Young Presidents’ Organization member.

Bradford Allen

Board Member

Bradford Allen serves as a member of our board of directors. Mr. Allen is a seasoned financier, entrepreneur, and business executive, having spent the past 35 years in senior roles at various firms in New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Mr. Allen’s experience in finance covers private wealth management, investment banking and venture capital, and has involved fund raising as well as mergers and acquisitions. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Allen has founded, funded and successfully exited three companies — BuyGolf.com, eFederal and NextVR — in the technology, e-commerce and enterprise software sectors.

From August 2020 to present, Mr. Allen has served as Executive Chairman of Vaunt Inc., a leading sports and entertainment intellectual property development company. At Vaunt Inc., he is responsible for corporate strategy, strategic partnerships and all financings of the company. From September 2020 to present, Mr. Allen has served on the board directors of Duddell Street Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DSAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on global companies in fintech, telecom, media and technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors with Asian growth potential.

Mr. Allen previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vaunt Inc. from August 2018 to August 2020. Mr. Allen co-founded a leading virtual reality technology company, NextVR, which was acquired in 2020 by Apple Inc. From May 2014 to January 2018, he served as Executive Chairman of NextVR. Mr. Allen graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Candice Beaumont

Board Member

Candice Beaumont serves as a member of our board of directors. Beginning in October 2020, Candice Beaumont began to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Springwater Situations Corp. (NASDAQ: SWSSU), a special purpose acquisition company formed to effectuate a merger or similar transaction with one or more businesses, which completed its initial public offering on August 25, 2021 and is currently searching for an initial business combination. Ms. Beaumont has served since 2016 as Chairman of the Salsano Group, a Panama based family office and conglomerate invested in private equity.

From 2003 to present, Ms. Beaumont has served as Chief Investment Officer of L Investments, a single-family office invested in public and private equity. She speaks at numerous family office and investment conferences globally, including the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Global Investor’s Forum, is a NYU Stern Family Office Council member serving on the Steering Committee, and is an Advisory Board member of the Family Office Association. From 2012 to 2014, Ms. Beaumont was a member of the Board of Directors of I2BF Venture Fund II, a Dubai Financial Services Authority regulated clean tech venture capital firm with offices in Dubai, New York and London.

Ms. Beaumont remains committed to community and philanthropic causes and serves on the International Council of Advisors for Global Dignity, a charity founded by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway to foster global respect and dignity across all borders, genders, religions and races. Ms. Beaumont was part of the Milken Young Leaders Circle and is a member of the Milken Institute, as well as an active member of Young Presidents Organization. She started her career in Corporate Finance at Merrill Lynch in 1996 and worked as an investment banker at Lazard Frères from 1997 to 1999, during which time she executed over $20 billion of merger and acquisition advisory assignments.

Ms. Beaumont also worked in private equity at Argonaut Capital from 1999 to 2001. Ms. Beaumont obtained a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Miami, graduating first in her class with a major of International Finance & Marketing. Ms. Beaumont was Captain of the University of Miami varsity tennis team, where she earned Academic All American honors, and is also a former world-ranked professional tennis player. She completed Global Leadership & Public Policy for the 21st Century at Harvard Kennedy School in 2015. Ms. Beaumont was honored by Trusted Insight as one of the Top 30 Family Office Chief Investment Officers in 2017 and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014. Ms. Beaumont has a broad network of relationships, including investors in private and public equity, leading venture capital firms with compelling pre-initial public offering companies and has expertise sourcing deals, evaluating private and public businesses, and conducting detailed due diligence and risk management.

Advisory Board

Claire Le Louët

Claire Le Louët

Phil Swift

Phil Swift

Advisor
J. Alan Reid, Jr

J. Alan Reid, Jr

Advisor
Pace Ralli

Pace Ralli

Volckert R. van Reesema

Volckert R. van Reesema

Matthew L. Scullin

Matthew L. Scullin

Nicholaus Rohleder

Nicholaus Rohleder

Ravé Mehta

Ravé Mehta

Wissam Anastas

Wissam Anastas

Ross McBride

Ross McBride

Martin Gruschka

Martin Gruschka

Antonio Carlos Rodrigues

Antonio Carlos Rodrigues

Charles Ecalle

Charles Ecalle

Claire Le Louët

Claire Le Louët serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mrs. Louët brings over 20 years of global strategy, growth, finance and digital experience from some of the world’s leading companies within the Energy and Infrastructure sectors. From 2020 to present, Mrs. Le Louët has served TotalEnergies EV Charging Services as Head of business-to-consumer business development for Europe. She is focusing on launching new services and equipment for residential and offsite EV charging experiences throughout Europe.

Prior to TotalEnergies EV Charging Services, from 2016 to 2020, Mrs. Le Louët spent four years at TotalEnergies Marketing and Services where she served as Chief Acceleration Officer for Digital and Innovation. She set up 25 early-stage entrepreneurial start-ups focusing on new digital services related to smart mobility, retail and new energies, including solar, hydrogen and biogas. Mrs. Le Louët was previously Lead Internal Auditor for TotalEnergies SE main infrastructure projects and affiliates worldwide. From 2013 to 2016, she successfully conducted internal control reviews in Africa and Asia and contributed to improving their governance methods, tools and recommendations effectiveness.

Throughout her career at TotalEnergies, Mrs. Le Louët has also served as Country Sales Manager, member of the ExCom of TotalEnergies in Tunisia from 2011 to 2013, Strategic Project Lead for acquisitions and divestments for TotalEnergies Africa from 2008 to 2011, Deputy Chief Economist for TotalEnergies SE from 2005 to 2008 and Financial Market analyst from 2004 to 2005. Mrs. Le Louët also previously worked from 2002 to 2003 within the banking industry as associate for Royal Bank of Scotland on debt capital markets in London and from 2002 to 2003 project and from 2000 to 2001, in structured finance for Dexia in New York. She currently holds several investment roles with various startups. Mrs. Le Louët is based in Paris, France and graduated from HEC and IFA (French Director Institute).

Phil Swift

Advisor

Philip C. Swift serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Swift is a leading energy investment professional in Canada and has extensive equity investment, corporate advisory and direct investment management experience. From 2006 to present, Mr. Swift has served as Executive Chairman of the Ayrshire Group, a family office investment platform that invests primarily in commercial real estate and related businesses. In 1989, Mr. Swift co-founded ARC Financial Corp. and from 1989 to October 2017 he held numerous senior management positions including President, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chairman and Vice-Chairman before his retirement in October 2017. Mr. Swift also served as a member of ARC Financial’s Investment Committee. Mr. Swift provided leadership support for ARC Group with a focus on strategy, corporate development and investment decision-making. He originated the ARC Group’s private equityinvesting activities in 1990 and led and grew this business, which has raised more than $4.68 billion since launching in 1987.Prior to 1989, Mr. Swift served as an energy securities analyst and a vice-president and director of Nesbitt Burns. Mr. Swift holds a Bachelor of Science (Math) degree and a Master of BusinessAdministration degree from the University of British Columbia. He is a recipient of the Warren Bennis Award for Leadership Excellence as well as the Pinnacle Award for achievement in entrepreneurship. Mr. Swift also speaks at numerous energy and private equity conferences in Canada and internationally and coauthored a book published by McGraw Hill entitled “In Search of Leadership — How Great Leaders Answer the Question “Why Lead?”

J. Alan Reid, Jr

Advisor

J. Alan Reid, Jr., CIMA, serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Reid brings more than 30 years of experience in asset management, brokerage and wealth management, providing strategic counseling to a wide range of clients, including industry groups, bulge bracket firms, family offices andnstartups. From June 2015 to present, Mr. Reid has served as the Founder and Managing Member of Reid Partners LLC, where he advises active family offices and entrepreneurs focused on disrupting industries. From January 2014 to present, he serves as Director of Arista Group, and its subsidiary Forward Ships, a Greek Family Office based in Sintra, Portugal. In 2014, Mr. Reid co-founded and chaired The 1640 Society, a nonprofitorganization that provides a forum for family offices to exchange ideas and information on topics such as wealth management and asset allocation.In 1997, Mr. Reid was recruited to work with Gordon Getty to develop innovative businesses focused on Mr. Getty’s interests in the evolution of payments and asset management. From March 1997 to May 2015, Mr. Reid held the positions of president and chief executive officer of numerous Getty controlled entities including Forward Management, ReFlow Management, Sierra Club Mutual Funds and Sutton Place Management. He also served on the Investment Company Institute Board of Governors, The Forward Funds Board of Trustees, The Legato Board of Directors, The FOLIOfn Board of Directors, and an industry working group at The NY Federal Reserve Bank. From August, 1992 to April, 2001, Mr. Reid held multiple positions at Morgan Stanley, including Sr. Vice President and Director of Business Delivery, where he built and ran operations, trading, human resources, and call centers for Morgan Stanley Online, and as Executive Director for Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Group, where he developed data aggregation for family office services.Mr. Reid holds a Bachelor’s degree from Menlo College in Atherton, California.

Pace Ralli

Pandia C. “Pace” Ralli serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Ralli brings over 20 years in the clean energy and infrastructure industry, with experience in investing in, operating, and founding companies focused on the energy transition of large industrial sectors. From 2012 to present, Mr. Ralli has served as Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clean Marine Energy LLC, which builds supply and distribution infrastructure of  clean fuels for ships.

Since 2018, Mr. Ralli also serves as Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SWITCH Maritime LLC, which is building the first fleet of zero-carbon vessels in North America, with a scheduled launch this year of the world’s first ship powered entirely by a hydrogen fuel cell. Since 2017, he has also served as Co-Founder and Principal of MidOcean Wind LLC, which is building specialized vessels needed to construct and maintain offshore windfarms in the United States.

Prior to his work in the maritime sector, Mr. Ralli served from 2011 to 2013 as Principal at Scientific Conservation Inc., focused on energy efficiency financing of large commercial and industrial buildings to unlock large- scale emissions reductions in commercial real estate, and from 2009 to 2011 as Manager at Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest utility in California. He currently serves on the board of directors of Polaris New Energy LLC and Northstar Terminals LLC, a marine terminals investment platform with Oaktree Capital, and   holds several advisory roles with climate-tech and decarbonization-related startups. Mr. Ralli is based in Jackson, Wyoming, and received his Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College and Master’s in Business Administration from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Volckert R. van Reesema

Volckert R. van Reesema serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. van Reesema brings over 20 years of experience in the transportation and energy sectors, with specialized experience in investing in, operating, and owning companies in the U.S. maritime transportation industry. From 2007 to present, Mr. van Reesema has served as Co-founder and Principal of Mid Ocean Marine LLC, which currently owns VanEnkevort Tug & Barge, Inc., the dry bulk ship owning and operating company with the most modern fleet on the Great Lakes.

MidOcean Marine LLC has owned up to 15 vessels at one time, in wide-ranging maritime sectors such as dry-bulk, tanker, car carrier, heavy-lift and offshore wind vessels. Prior to founding Mid Ocean Marine LLC, from 2004 to 2007, Mr. van Reesema served as Manager at Strong Vessel Operators, a commercial ship owner and operator, where he worked in the Liner Services Department. Mr. van Reesema began his career in 2000 at PepsiCo in their three year management training program focusing on sales, operations and logistics.

Mr. van Reesema sits on the boards of directors of Kerrco, a privately held Oil & Gas company based in Houston, and MarineCo, a privately held holding company with numerous industrial and maritime interests, and is Principal and Investment Committee member of Vareco Holdings. Mr. van Reesema is based in Rowayton, Connecticut, and received his Bachelor’s degree from Boston University’s School of Management in 2000.

Matthew L. Scullin

Matthew L. Scullin serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Dr. Scullin is a materials entrepreneur who has pioneered several new materials into commercialization. He is currently Chief Executive Officer at MycoWorks, the leader in the field of fine mycelium materials. In 2008, Dr. Scullin founded Alphabet Energy, the leader in the field of thermoelectric products for waste-heat recovery, and sold that company in 2019. As its Chief Executive, Dr. Scullin led Alphabet Energy from initial concept through technology development and revenue growth for the world’s first commercial thermoelectric waste-heat recovery generators.

Dr. Scullin has extensive experience developing strategic corporate partnerships and selling into industries including fashion, luxury, oil and gas, automotive, steel, process heating, defense and consumer hardware, as well as in team-building, intellectual property, product management and venture financing. Dr. Scullin has raised over $125 million from leading worldwide venture, corporate, private equity, angel and debt investors. He has won numerous awards for innovation and entrepreneurship, including the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30. Prior to founding Alphabet Energy, Inc., Dr. Scullin held positions at X/Seed Capital, IBM and General Motors. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Materials Science where his work was highly cited in leading scientific journals, including Nature Materials, and a B.S.E. in Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania, Magna Cum Laude.

Nicholaus Rohleder

Nicholaus Rohleder serves as a member of our Advisory Board.From April 2021 to present, Mr. Rohleder has served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of New American Energy, a vertically integrated asset management firm focused on the clean & environmental technology sector.

From July 2019 to March 2021, Mr. Rohleder served as a Portfolio Manager at New American Energy. Mr. Rohleder has held the position of Independent Director at waste remediation technology provider BioHiTech Global (NASDAQ: BHTG) since June 2020, clean technology focused investment bank Ardour Capital since January 2020, climate focused media platform Climate & Capital Media since April 2021, and energy infrastructure developer Lone Cypress Energy Services since January 2020.

Mr. Rohleder has held the position of Chief Financial Officer at American Hydrogen since May 2021, an integrated carbon management company. Prior to this, Mr. Rohleder served as the Chief Operating Officer of Merit Holdings Group from November 2017 to July 2019, a private ESG investment firm focused on global public securities, commercial real estate debt and equity, and select venture capital. Prior to this, from 2016 to 2017, Mr. Rohleder served as an Analyst at Dwight Capital, a financial services and private investment firm encompassing real estate debt, asset- based lending, and fixed income fund management. Mr. Rohleder received a Master’s of Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Engineering & Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s of Science in Sustainability Management with a concentration in Environmental Economics from Columbia University.

Ravé Mehta

Ravé Mehta serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Mehta brings over 25 years of global technology, engineering, development and infrastructure construction experience. From 2016 to present,  Mr. Mehta has been the Chairman of Water Ledger, a blockchain-based water offset credit platform and marketplace focused on building the carbon offset markets for water to help buffer the impacts of climate change on our diminishing water supplies and replenish critical river basins and water sheds around the world to combat the global water scarcity crisis. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Mehta was the Chief Executive Officer of Mehta Group, an engineering and construction management firm focused on building water and transportation infrastructure for over 40 years, including roads, highways, bridges, airports and water systems. Mehta Group has completed over 850 infrastructure projects with over $40 billion of construction.

Mr. Mehta continues to serve on the board of directors of Mehta Group. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Mehta served as the Chief Executive Officer of GameCore, a technology company using their proprietary game engine and 3D simulation technology to simulate the design and construction of water and transportation infrastructure projects. From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Mehta was a Partner of Sun Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in infrastructure based technology companies. Mr. Mehta began his career in 1994 as a survey rodman for MAI, the predecessor to Mehta Group, and worked his way up to a senior engineer. Mr. Mehta holds a Bachelor’s in Science and a Master’s in Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and an Executive Master’s in Business Administration from Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College.

Wissam Anastas

Wissam Anastas serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Anastas brings over 20 years of global banking and investment experience in the energy transition from some of the world’s most reputable companies including Paribas, SocGen, UBS and Deutsche Bank Asset Management. From April 2018 to present, Mr. Anastas has been serving as one of the Co-founders and Executive Board Members of Amarenco Mena, an Independent Power Producer with a solar focus. Mr. Anastas was involved in defining the   strategy in the region and support in developing the business that has operations now in five countries and a pipeline of in excess of 2GW.Since June 2018, Mr. Anastas also has served as Managing Partner of a London based merchant bank DSEL (with a parent listed on the TSX) that is focused on high growth real assets in the energy transition. Since September 2019, Mr. Anastas has also been responsible for the investment in EMP, a highly experienced wind energy developer focused on Northern Europe with an excess of 500MW of pipeline. From August 2011 to March 2017, Mr. Anastas spent seven years at Deustsche Bank Asset & Wealth Management as Co-Head of the Global Infrastructure Fund amongst other Investment Committee roles in the Private Equity & Private Markets platform. He was responsible for the fund raise, the origination of investments and the fund management.The co-mingled fund deployed in excess of $200 million across the energy and infrastructure sector globally. Since June 2016, Mr. Anastas has sat on the Board of Directors of Energisme, an energy technology Saas/Paas business focused on big data and artificial intelligence. Mr. Anastas led the initial investment round, supported the growth and led the company’s listing on Euronext Growth in July 2020. Mr. Anastas holds an MSc in Civil Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Industries de Strasbourg and an MBA from INSEAD and has completed an executive program at Harvard Business School.

Ross McBride

Ross McBride serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. McBride is the Founder and President of Globalvestment Capital Partners, Montblanc Developments and The Management Performance Centre. Globalvestment Capital Partners is a boutique real estate and renewable energy investment bank he founded in 1991 that specializes in the buying, investing and selling of large income producing real estate, renewable energy and infrastructure assets globally working with institutional investors, private investors and developers. The company typically does an annual deal volume of $1 billion to $2 billion. Mr. McBride also continues to oversee his real estate development and investment company, as well as being a director on a number of for profit and non-profit organizations boards.

In 2006, Mr. McBride started an internal management training division at Blackrock/Montblanc that eventually grew into The Management Performance Centre (“MPC”). MPC is a management training and development center that provides one to three day executive education courses to companies and organizations. His activities with MPC are focused on helping executives improve their business negotiation skills, public speaking and leadership abilities. In 1996, Mr. McBride started The Blackrock/Montblanc Group, a real estate development group that has developed and co-developed over 4,000 residential units.

The various real estate companies that started within the Blackrock/Montblanc Group now employ over 1,000 full time staff. He is a member of the Canadian Association of  Professional Speakers and the National Speakers Association. According to ratings published by Industry Surveys, Mr. McBride was the number one rated business speaker in Canada (and one of the top 100 business speakers in the world) for five years running (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008) before he started limiting his global speaking engagements. He has been a member of the Young Presidents Organization since 1992 and has held the positions of Chapter Chairman, Education Chairman and Membership Chairman of the Young Presidents Organization — Ontario Canada Chapter (172 members).

He has also been the European Co-Chair of  the YPO Deal Network and is currently on the global executive board of the 4,200 member YPO Real Estate Industry Network where he serves as the Global Learning Officer. He is a member of the YPO Chapter Executive of YPO London Gold where he is currently the Mentoring Officer and is the incoming Chapter Chair of YPO London Gold; he is also a member of YPO Paris Chapter and just completed his role as YPO European Regional Chair for Gold Forums.

Martin Gruschka

Martin Gruschka serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Gruschka began his career in 1990 as a management consultant for a Deutsche Bank Group subsidiary, with a focus on East German Privatization projects. Thereafter, he led the European media practice of Arthur D. Little, a global management consulting group, from 1996 to 1999. Having spent time as an associate director at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell’s media investment banking division, he co-founded Springwater Capital LLC in 2002, where he currently serves as Managing Partner.

Mr. Gruschka is also Chief Executive Officer of Springwater Special Situations Corp. (Nasdaq: SWSSU), a special purpose acquisition company that raised $168 million through its initial public offering in August 2021 and is focused on acquiring a company in the European special situation sector. Mr. Gruschka has served as Chairman, President, board director and Chief Executive Officer of more than forty companies throughout Europe and the U.S. in a diverse range of sectors, including media and communications, aerospace, engineering, logistics, recycling, technology, tourism and business process outsourcing.

Antonio Carlos Rodrigues

Antonio Carlos Fernandes Rodrigues serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Since May 2018, Mr. Rodrigues has served as the Chairman of the board of directors of Casais Group, one of the largest construction sector in Portugal, which operates in 16 countries, with 4,500 employees and a turnover of €520M. Since May 2021, he has served as a member of the General Council of Minho University. Since May 2017, he has served on the board of directors of the Industrial Association of the Construction and Public Works; he is also a member of Young Presidents Organization, has been active in the construction industry sector since 2016 and has previously served as a District Delegate of the Northern Region Engineers Council.

Since 2015, he has served as a Business Ambassador for the City of Braga and a member of the Strategic Council in the Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-sustainability. He has served on the board of directors of the Center for Waste Value since 2012, and from 2012 to 2017, he was on the boards of directors of two companies that were successfully sold, Recivalongo and Retria, which are dedicated to recycling, waste to energy and waste management. From 2008 to 2013, he served as Chief Executive Officer of  Casais Engineering and Construction, and Chairman from June 2013 to May 2018. Mr. Rodrigues  started in 1995 as project manager in Casais Group, and has served in the roles of  Commercial Director  and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Rodrigues holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Minho University. In 2017, he successfully completed the Owner / President Management program from Harvard Business School

Charles Ecalle

Charles Ecalle serves as a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Ecalle is a seasoned investment and business professional with 20 years of experience. Since July 2021, he has served as Co-founder and Managing Director at Alumia, a platform that helps asset managers raise assets in the international market. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor. Prior to Alumia, he was Head of Absolute Return funds from February 2013 to September 2019 managing liquid multi-asset portfolios and Head of Risk at Tailor AM from October 2019 to January 2021.

Prior to joining Tailor AM, Mr. Ecalle was member of investment committee at Amundi Private Equity Fund and managed several private equity funds. Prior to Amundi Private Equity Fund, Mr. Ecalle was quantitative researcher at Société Générale, leading a team of econometricians from 2004 to 2007. He began his career in 2001 as a fixed income and currency trader for JP Morgan. Mr. Ecalle received a Master’s in Management from NEOMA Business School and an International Master’s in Business Administration from Cox Business School (Southern Methodist University). He also co-founded an independent advisory firm focusing on global macro and special situations opportunities. Due to his significant experience investing in liquid and illiquid assets, financial data and risk management, Mr. Ecalle has successfully advised Ultra High Net Worth clients, family offices, hedge funds and provided strategic advice to asset management groups.

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