leadership

Gregory Forero

Founder & CEO

  • Co-founder and CEO of HGP Storage and Highgate Power (distributed generation companies) with over 25 years of experience in the energy sector

  • Corporate career spanned senior roles at several financial institutions and large energy merchants (UBS AG, Williams, Constellation, TXU)

  • Co-managed 4 GW of CAISO generation assets through deregulation (1998)

  • Managed the deregulation of ERCOT for incumbent utility TXU with 18 GW of generation assets and load (from 2001)

  • As Head of Energy Derivatives at UBS, Greg managed a team of traders and quants, modeling and taking positions in wholesale electricity markets across the United States (2007)

  • Developed DER assets in ERCOT since 2013, providing reliability in areas dominated by wind generation

  • MSc, Financial Mathematics, from the University of Chicago; BA, Economics, Wesleyan University

 

Evan Caron

Managing Partner

  • Career spanning 20 years of electricity/natural gas expertise in trading, finance, structuring and risk management

  • Former Head of North American trading at Trailstone Group (a Riverstone company)

  • Founder/CEO ClearTrace, a venture backed emissions and carbon management company

  • Director and Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and Mercuria Energy

  • BA, Finance, Binghamton School of Management

  • Co-developed 20+ distributed energy assets and over 200MW of resiliency and micro-grid solutions in ERCOT

  • Former board member and investor in MP2 Energy (Shell Company)

 

DJ Withee

Chief Operating Officer & Legal Counsel

  • 22 years representing energy market participants as external and in-house counsel

  • General Counsel (North America) to mid-size commodity trading company

  • Extensive experience negotiating and drafting power supply, hedging and credit support arrangements

  • Primary legal responsibility for introducing new products and entering new markets

  • Juris Doctor - University of New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce School of Law

  • Master of Business Administration - New York University Stern School of Business (Specializations: Entrepreneurship, Strategy)

 

Ken Brunkenhoefer

Director of Engineering

  • 40+ years of service with the utility industry Oncor/TXU

  • Distributed resource interconnections with the distribution system of Oncor

  • Support for sales and purchases of large wholesale power commercial and industrial (C&I)

  • Utility construction, energy utilization, and general project management for large commercial and industrial customers