GENERATE: INTELLIGENCE

Prior to Generate, David served as CEO of five publicly traded energy companies and as Chair of three: NRG Energy, NRG Yield, Climate Real Impact Solutions I&II, and International Power Plc. During his 12 years at NRG Energy, David led the company from Chapter 11 to a Fortune 200 company. He is a frequent speaker on opportunities for accelerating the energy transition and was named the Energy Industry “CEO of the Year” by EnergyBiz in 2010, top CEO in the electric utility sector by Institutional Investor in 2011, and “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young in 2010. Prior to Generate, he served as Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). David has previously served on the Boards of Heliogen Inc, Source Global, JERA Co. Inc., Saudi Electric Company, ACWA Power, El Paso and Tata Steel Ltd. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.

Prior to joining IFC, he was the President of EIG, a leading energy and infrastructure investment firm, and a member of its Investment and Executive Committees. Prior to joining EIG, he was a partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and a member of KKR’s Management Committee. William served as CEO of KKR Asset Management as well as CEO and Director of KKR Financial Corporation, a publicly traded specialty finance firm. He also sat on the board of Nephila Capital, a $10 billion hedge fund that is one of the largest private tech-enabled reinsurance vehicles in the world. Prior to joining KKR, he was with the global investment firm TCW Group, Inc., most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and Hong Kong, where he focused on mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Sonneborn is a frequent speaker on sustainable infrastructure and technology opportunities. He has given keynote presentations at conferences such as Vivatech, CES, the Global Private Capital Conference and SuperReturn and has appeared on television, radio and in print on venues such as Bloomberg, CNBC, France24, The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and PEI. William graduated with honors from Georgetown University. He is involved with a variety of non-profit organizations, serving as a director or trustee of Georgetown University, Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Initiative, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health at Stanford University, the Global Private Capital Association and Chairman of the board of St. Albans School in Washington, DC.

Nam was responsible for SunPower’s Commercial Solar division, delivering approximately $500 million in revenues and number 1 market share in the U.S. Prior to that, Nam served as Senior Vice President and oversaw SunPower’s power plant business in Latin America, where she was responsible for the P&L, driving approximately 1GW of contracted pipeline and $1.5 billion in revenues. Prior to SunPower, Nam was Vice President of Global Business Development at First Solar. At First Solar, she led the sale and financing of the First Solar project pipeline, including raising $8 billion of financing, and various M&A activities. She also led the expansion of First Solar’s global platform and pipeline. Prior to First Solar, Nam was responsible for corporate development and strategy at a solar start-up OptiSolar, where she helped raise $300 million in venture funding and eventually led the sale of OptiSolar to First Solar. She has also held various roles in investment banking working in New York, Singapore and Los Angeles and is on Generac’s Board of Directors. Nam has a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar.

Prior to Generate, he was a vice president of origination and structuring at Morgan Stanley, where he sat in the North America Power and Gas business on the commodities trading floor, investing the firm’s balance sheet into renewable energy assets. He spent more than six years at Morgan Stanley, primarily focused on originating, acquiring, developing, and financing solar PV projects across residential, commercial, industrial, and small utility scale, which included playing an integral role in more than $200 million of the first community solar portfolios institutionally financed in the United States. Ed began his career in renewable energy as a design engineer for both solar PV and solar hot-water-system integration in New York City. Ed holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering‐Energy Systems from Columbia University and a BS in Mathematics from Hamilton College.

She has also served as the chief operating officer of Larcen Consulting Group, where she grew and managed the operations group focused on delivering human-capital services to a portfolio of private-equity backed companies as well as large corporate organizations. While with Larcen, she also led the executive search strategy and execution for the portfolio of investments managed by Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco–based middle market private equity firm. Her corporate training comes from her time as the chief of staff for British Petroleum’s Wind and Solar business, as a director of large commercial solar projects for BP, and as a leader at NPower (a Microsoft-backed IT consulting start-up). Kristine was a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she received her MS in Management. She also received an MEd in Psychology from the University of North Carolina and a BA in Psychology and International Studies from Taylor University.

Prior to Generate, Jonah led Breakthrough Energy a network founded by Bill Gates including investment funds, nonprofit and philanthropic programs, and policy efforts linked by a common commitment to scale the technologies we need to achieve a path to net zero emissions by 2050. During that time, he also served as Mr. Gates’s senior advisor for policy and government relations. Prior to Breakthrough Energy, Jonah spent nearly 15 years in Washington, D.C., leading integrated advocacy, communications, and grassroots campaigns. He led a series of policy efforts on a variety of issues – from civil rights to education reform to nuclear non-proliferation. Before that, he served as primary spokesperson and chief strategist for the largest national campaign to protect voting rights. Jonah holds a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School and a B.A. degree in History from Binghamton University. Jonah lives in Seattle with his wife Jackie and his two children, Desmond and Fiona.

He was previously the chairman of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and served in the Executive Chamber of Governor Cuomo as New York State’s first energy czar and oversaw the state’s energy agencies. Previously, he was CEO of Good Energies, a leading investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Richard was also managing director and chaired the Global Financing Group at Goldman Sachs. He previously served as vice chairman of Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities business and co-head of its Banking Department. Richard has also served as the chairman of the board of Levi Strauss and on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Brookings Institution. Richard received an MA in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management, an MA in International Relations from Yale University, and a BA from Stanford University.

Peggy has led Generate’s community solar investment strategy over the last 5 years, building over 200 MW of project, and has 17 years of experience in renewable energy and finance. Prior to Generate Peggy was a director at SunEdision. She holds a BA from Columbia University in Environmental Science and Mathematics.

Prior to Generate, Pietro was a Director at Onyx Renewable Partners, a Blackstone investment vehicle focused on renewable energy infrastructure in North America. Across his career Pietro has been responsible for over $1 Billion investments across the sustainability space from early-stage corporate equity to large, distributed asset acquisitions and financing. Pietro holds a MS/BS in environmental engineering form the Politecnico di Milano, a MS in renewable energy and climate policies from the Politecnico di Milano and, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

With more than 15 years of experience in the energy industry, Scott focuses on the emerging clean mobility sector by accelerating the decarbonization of transportation. Prior to Generate Capital, Scott spent time at SunEdison, EDF-Renewable Energy, and the Lower Colorado River Authority where he developed, marketed, and structured several billion dollars for renewable energy and energy transition projects. Scott received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce from Washington and Lee University, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Prior to Generate, Logan joined BloombergNEF in 2010 and was Head of Clean Power research when he left in 2022. This was a 30-person group spanning solar, wind, energy storage and power grids. At BloombergNEF he previously worked as a solar analyst, built and led the Energy Storage team, and developed the firm’s first clean energy Index and ETF, in collaboration with Goldman Sachs. Logan is a regular writer, speaker and conference panellist on topics relating to the energy transition. He has an MA (Hons) in Arabic from Edinburgh University and in 2019 completed executive training in Supply Chain Management at Stanford GSB.

With over 10 years of experience in renewable energy and infrastructure investing, Ryan has been involved in over $5 billion in sustainable infrastructure transactions. Prior to joining Generate in 2021, Ryan was a Strategic Business Development Advisor at Shell New Energies, focusing on onshore renewable power project acquisitions and development partnerships. Prior to Shell, Ryan worked on JP Morgan’s tax equity team where he structured and executed complex tax equity transactions. Earlier in his career, he held various positions in banking and capital markets. Ryan holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech and is a CFA charterholder. He is based in Generate Capital’s New York City office and is an active member of the LGBTQIA employee resource group.

Before joining Generate, Sarie led the asset management function at Longroad Energy, and in previous positions she held leadership roles in asset management at SunEdison and First Wind Energy, with portfolio sizes ranging from 1.3 to 2.6 GW and more than $2 billion in assets under management. Over the course of her career in renewables, Sarie has played a key role in many renewable energy firsts, including the first wind energy project in Hawaii, the first utility scale wind project to be coupled with utility scale battery storage, and the first wind project to be built on federal lands. Sarie holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on economics and management information systems from UC Berkeley.

He has raised more than $500M on funding for power projects with over 2.5 GW capacity, and determined pricing and strategy for over 500 MW of contracted capacity. He most recently served as Managing Director of Alturus, and Director of Capital Markets for Edison Energy, where he led the establishment of the capital markets division, launched an investment partnership with a multi-billion dollar IPP, and raised $50M in funding for investment in on-site energy solutions including CHP and battery storage.

Prior to Generate, Maya served as a Principal at The Ad Hoc Group and the Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs at 3Degrees Group.

Since joining Generate in 2018, Asher has worked on waste-to-value projects, especially in the food- and agricultural-waste sectors and in the low-carbon fuels market. Outside of Generate, Asher has worked in venture capital and market advisory roles in the climate tech and energy space. Asher attended Northwestern University where he earned a BS in Environmental Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in Energy & Sustainability, and holds an MBA from Wharton.