People & Firms

Atlas Renewable Energy has promAtlas Renewable Energy has promoted Luis Pita as chief commercial officer, based out of Miami.

ArcLight Capital Partners has appointed Curt Morgan to a senior adviser role. Morgan will work to find new investment opportunities for ArcLight and oversee the firm's portfolio companies.

Distributed energy company Scale Microgrids has hired Neil Maguire as its chief technology officer.

Eversource Energy has hired Paul Chodak as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective November 13, 2023.

Equinor has hired former operations and maintenance executive at Vestas Wind Systems, Samuel Byrne.

Distributed energy company Correlate Energy has appointed Johan Themaat as the vice president of finance.

Hawaiian Electric has appointed Paul Ito as interim CFO to replace the retiring Tayne Sekimura as succession planning was upended in the wake of the August 8 deadly wildfires on Maui.

Venture capital and private equity firm Voyager Interests has hired Robert Trainer as a partner. The company focuses on investments in the energy services and equipment (ES&E) sector.

Moelis & Company has appointed Philip Holder as the new managing director of the investment bank's power and utilities unit.

BC Utilities Commission, the regulator of British Columbia’s public energy utilities, has named Mark Jaccard as its chair and chief executive.

Power management company Eaton has made a $150 million investment in electrical power distribution manufacturing, bolstering its manufacturing presence in North America.

Renewable energy development and financing company Empower Energies has appointed Patrick Corr to the role of chief operating officer (COO).

Moelis & Company has appointed Jugjeev Duggal as managing director of the firm's newly launched clean technology unit.

Utility scale independent power producer Onward Energy has named Patrick Welch as its chief financial officer.

Tara Young, former deputy general counsel at Plus Power, has joined Spearmint Energy as its general counsel, effective immediately.

The head of project finance at EDPR North America Distributed Generation has left the firm to launch a consulting business. Christopher Rittenhouse has worked in role since 2018 and is now consulting under Gates Rittenhouse LLC.

Investment bank Moelis & Company has formed a clean technology group and hired former Citi banker Arash Nazhad as a managing director in Houston to co-lead the new unit.

Former Barclays investment bankers Robyn Underwood and Jason Kivett have joined the Pickering Energy Partners’ (PEP) investment banking practice to lead a newly formed team.

GreenTechnologies has launched a renewable natural gas (RNG) production subsidiary GreenEdge Renewables.

Aethon Energy, an onshore energy focused investment firm, has made a string of senior hires.

Senior Guggenheim Securities bankers have transitioned to Jefferies’ new energy transition banking team.

Former Whitehall & Company vice president Ted Barrett has founded Carnyx Holdings, a New York-based infrastructure investment fund.

Pillsbury Winthrop has appointed tax attorney Don Lonczak as a partner in its global energy transition team, based in its Washington DC office.

The latest banker to hand in his notice at the New York real assets and structured finance team of HSBC is causing a stir as a leading figure from the bank flown in to steady the ship.

AC Power, a brownfield solar developer, has hired Christy Searl, former Leyline Renewable Capital managing director, as chief revenue officer.

Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) has launched its fourth sustainability driven investment strategy, focusing on acquiring commercial and residential property wherever the company might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce energy use intensity, and add additional renewable power sources.

Milbank has promoted Jaime Ramirez to co-head the firm’s Latin America practice, based out of New York.

International battery developer Powin Energy has hired Jeff Waters, former chief executive of Maxeon Solar Technologies, as CEO, replacing Geoffrey Brown.

Wilson Ferreira Junior has resigned from his position as chief executive of Eletrobras after a year in the role.

Origis Energy has appointed Vikas Anand as chief operating officer and chief financial officer.