Experience

Yavapai Regional Capital, Inc.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and President

  • Jun 2009 - Present

  Promoting infrastructure Public Private Partnerships in the Mountain States. This includes, partly as community service, marketing state and municipal entities in the Canadian Mexican corridor plus cultivating a Washington DC “rolodex”.



Midway Heights Annexation Association

• Executive Chairman

  • 2002 - Jun 2007

  MHAA was a community activist group I formed which eventually numbered almost 1000 members including church organizations and fire departments. The goal was to use a Public Private Partnership to build a new network and replace wells with piped water for residential use and fire hydrants along I-80 in California between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe for fire protection.



California Power Authority

• United States

• Adviser to the Chairman

  • Jun 2002 - Mar 2003

  Advised on developing peaking power plants as California’s response to the catastrophic “Enron” induced energy crisis.



Self-Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • May 2000 - May 2002

  Various energy projects including setting up an Energy Services Company



Mediocredito

• Italy

• Managing Director

  • 1998 - 20013 years

  Responsible for setting up and running Mediocredito’s new London Branch focusing on project finance from London.



Rolls-Royce Power Ventures

• United Kingdom
• Machinery Manufacturing

• Project Finance

  • May 1997 - Jun 1998

  Responsible for project financing a $200mm+ peaking power project portfolio based on RR’s Trent aero engine



Banque Paribas

• Global Head of Project Finance

  • 1991 - 19976 years

  Set up and led as “chief rainmaker” the global project finance business of what is now BNPParibas which consistently ranks globally amongst the top two or three banks in project finance. We set the market standard for global delivery of project financings in the power, energy and infrastructure sectors. We also led the field in combining Export and Project co-financings bringing to market $2Billion in three milestone financings in Colombia, Turkey and the Philippines alone.



Citibank

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President & Senior Banker

  • Jul 1990 - Jul 1991

  I was responsible for the global banking relationship with some of Citibank’s biggest clients worldwide. This was part of their attempt to recreate via role models the super generalist Senior Banker I had pioneered so successfully at Chase.



Salomon Brothers

• United States
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• High Yield Sales and Trading

  • Jun 1987 - Jun 1990

  I was the “front end” of Salomon’s renowned trading arm marketing High Yield issuers as part of a strategy to use its trading desk to help issuers manage their debt thereby raising Salomon’s standing in the High-Yield new issue market. We successfully managed almost $3Billion of trades and transactions. Fully Licensed Series 7 plus blue sky.



Chase Manhattan Corporation

• United States
• Banking

• Vice President

  • 1983 - 1987 4 years , New York , I relocated to the New York Global Energy Group where I was the role model as Senior Banker with the banks largest global clients including Exxon, Shell, Aramco and Honeywell. I was endorsed by Exxon as having successfully transformed the relationship by emphasizing high value-added products plus led the marketing efforts for Honeywell’s Eurobond issue, the first by a non-German bank.

• Executive Director

  • 1980 - 1983 3 years , Melbourne Australia , Regional Head for Australasia of Project Finance. I was responsible for Chase’s Australia Project Finance business achieving notable “firsts” such as financings for New Zealand Synfuels ($1.7 billion), CSR/Delhi ($750 million) and Ashton Mining($200 million). Overall Chase led $11Billion of financing as part of one of the largest ever resource financing booms.



JP Morgan

• United States
• Radio and Television Broadcasting

• Vice President

  • 1972 - 19808 years

  Came top with distinction in JPMorgan’s renowned full time Credit, Accounting and Finance class run by Columbia Business School. On returning to London, I helped establish Morgan’s London energy and project finance business which was the undisputed leader with milestone financings for many North Sea oil and gas development projects.



Hawker Siddeley Aviation

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Apprentice

  • 1964 - 19706 years

  As one of 600 apprentices with Hawker Siddeley Aviation, I came top of the class with an O.N.C. in Mechanical Engineering winning for that year a company scholarship leading to an Honors Degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Loughborough University. During that time, I was seconded for 6 months to Airbus in Hamburg, Germany