American Renewables

American Renewables Team / Partners



American Renewables Board of Managers

Frank Getman
Jim Gordon

American Renewables Employees

Robert Donahoe
Leonard Fagan
Joshua Levine
Ari Mervis
Albert Morales
Stuart Sohn

Other American Renewables Team Members

Tony Callendrello
Christopher Smith

Frank Getman
Frank Getman is president and chief operating officer of BayCorp Holdings, Ltd. and is also president and CEO of HoustonStreet Exchange.

Prior to joining BayCorp, Getman was an attorney with the Boston-based law firm Hale and Dorr, LLP. He is also a director of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, an independent, non-partisan free market think tank focused on state and local public policy issues that affect the quality of life in New Hampshire. Getman is also chairman of the School Board of St. Patrick's School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Getman has a joint J.D./M.B.A degree from Boston College and a bachelor's degree in political science from Tufts University.

Jim Gordon
Jim Gordon is the CEO of American Renewables and serves on its Board of Managers. He is also president of Energy Management, Inc. (EMI).

Gordon started EMI in 1975 and has built the company into one of the most successful privately held independent power companies in America. He recruited and managed a team of dedicated and highly motivated professionals who have created state of the art power projects. Gordon's sense of timing and grasp of political and regulatory direction have allowed EMI to develop and operate some of New England's first gas fired cogeneration and independent power projects, as well as the first generation of merchant electric plants in the United States.

Gordon is a graduate of Boston University's School of Public Communications and worked for Warner Communications Corporation prior to founding EMI.

Robert Donahoe
Robert Donahoe is vice president of environmental services. His responsibilities include the management and coordination of all permitting and engineering development activities such as surveys, environmental site assessments, geotechnical evaluations and various ancillary infrastructure requirements that serve each facility.

He has been an integral part of every energy project developed, owned and operated by Energy Management Inc. since 1983. Prior to 1983, he worked as a design engineer for Chas. T. Main and Stone & Webster on various energy and heat recovery projects throughout the United States.

Donahoe attended Wentworth Institute of Technology and furthered his education in the wastewater treatment field and renewable energy technologies.

Leonard Fagan
Leonard Fagan is vice president, engineering and technology at American Renewables.

Prior to joining American Renewables he was vice president of engineering for Energy Management, Inc. Fagan has more than 38 years of experience in engineering and project management with steam and gas turbines, combined cycle power plants, biomass power generation, solid fueled boilers, wind turbines and reciprocating engines. He has extensive experience in engineering and project management with complex turnkey projects and greenfield power plant development including environmental permitting and studies, and negotiations of major equipment and EPC construction contracts.

Fagan has been involved in supporting plant operations and development and review of operating and maintenance procedures. He has also been responsible for project budgets, schedule, planning, reporting and organization. Fagan's background prior to joining EMI includes managing several large international energy projects. He has also held key positions with equipment manufacturers in the steam and gas turbine industry.

Fagan has a B.S.M.E. from Northeastern University and has completed advanced studies in physics and meteorology.

Joshua Levine
Josh Levine is the director of project development of American Renewables with more than 10 years of experience in environmental permitting, economic analysis, project finance and energy project development. Levine's responsibilities include managing all facets of project development from initial site selection and contract negotiation through environmental permitting and the development of a fuel procurement strategy. In addition, he is responsible for maintaining the projects' financial pro forma models during the development process. Levine is also involved in new business development for American Renewables, including partnership development as well as evaluation of project feasibility.

Before joining American Renewables, Levine worked for Tamarack Energy where he developed and managed financial pro forma models used to evaluate and analyze Tamarack Energy's renewable energy development opportunities. He also identified new development opportunities, and managed ongoing development of renewable energy projects. His experience at Tamarack Energy included the management of utility-scale biomass and wind energy projects throughout New England and the Southeast.

Prior to Tamarack Energy, Levine worked for Haley & Aldrich, where he helped manage the environmental permitting process for large energy infrastructure projects, including liquid natural gas terminals and natural gas pipelines. Prior to Haley & Aldrich, he worked for a major environmental consulting firm, assisting state and federal governments, as well as the United Nations, on a range of issues including the economic impact of domestic and international natural resource damage claims, and advising U.S. Department of Justice attorneys on large-scale environmental litigation cases.

Levine received his B.S. in economics from Connecticut College, his M.B.A. from the Yale University - School of Management and his M.E.M. in policy, economics and law from the Yale University - School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Ari Mervis
Ari Mervis is the vice president of business development for American Renewables.

Prior to joining American Renewables, Mervis was the vice president of finance and assistant general counsel of Energy Management, Inc. Mervis oversees the development of the American Renewables projects. He has principal responsibility for strategic planning and negotiation and preparation of project documents.

Mervis is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice law in Illinois and Massachusetts.

Albert Morales
Al Morales serves as chief financial officer of American Renewables.

Morales has held a number of leadership positions in the renewable energy and finance fields, including serving as chief operating officer and executive vice president of Environmental Power Corporation/Microgy, a publicly-traded developer of commercial-scale renewable natural gas facilities. At Microgy Morales helped develop and construct several facilities, managed the day-to-day operations of the business, and played an integral role in arranging corporate and project financing.

Morales has also worked with various early-stage companies in the clean tech sector, including a developer of mid-range wind and solar facilities and a designer of green residential building systems. Earlier in his career Morales was a vice president at Latona Associates, a private merchant bank, where he exercised a broad range of responsibilities for a $500 million portfolio of businesses. Morales has also served as an investment banker in the Industrial Manufacturing Group of ING Barings Furman Selz, where he provided advisory and capital-raising services to clients. He was also a corporate attorney in the New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Morales graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in economics, received a J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review, and received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Stuart Sohn
Stuart Sohn is the controller at American Renewables. He oversees project development and construction finances, as well as corporate accounting, reporting and year-end auditing.

Sohn spent the last several years at Kelson Energy, Inc., a $2-billion independent power producer, as their corporate controller. He handled all accounting and finance functions for projects and corporate entities. Previously, he was corporate controller at Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a $400 million pharmaceutical company. Responsibilities included all accounting and finance functions including SEC reporting, budgeting, financial modeling and ERP systems implementation.

Sohn is a C.P.A. licensed in Massachusetts. He has an undergraduate degree from Boston College in accounting and an M.B.A. from Babson College in finance. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of C.P.A.s.

Tony Callendrello
Tony Callendrello assists American Renewables with state and local government and regulatory relations.

He is currently the chief operating officer and a director of BayCorp Holdings, Ltd., one of the partners of American Renewables LLC. He is also a director of HoustonStreet Exchange, Inc. Callendrello is a professional engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the power industry. He received a bachelor of engineering and a masters of mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith is a managing director with Energy Management, Inc. Smith's responsibilities include structuring, arranging and financial placement for American Renewables' projects companies.

His experience includes ten years in private equity and asset management in the energy industry at top tier firms including Enron Principal Investments, Constellation Energy Commodities Group, and, most recently, Merrill Lynch -- Corporate Principal Investments. In addition, he has served on the board of Enron's largest independent oil & gas investment, Venoco, and led investment teams in the power, freight, coal and natural gas markets.

Smith has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

What the Experts Are Saying

"Private forest landowners need the new markets and new demand for low-value wood products that biomass power will encourage. The operation of biomass facilities, and GREC in particular, will improve forest health, provide much-needed economic benefits and security to the forestry industry, and will help 'keep forests in forest.'"
- Scott Jones
Chief Executive Officer, Forest Landowners Association
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