John M. Bowes
John Bowes is a senior executive in financial services with over 30 years of C level and hands-on experience in creating and managing successful companies, particularly in renewable energy. Over the last six years, Mr. Bowes has been a partner in several renewable energy financing entities, most recently as a partner in Black Emerald Capital Partners.
Mr. Bowes’ experience has ranged from creating new companies to C level management at multi-billion dollar enterprises. Mr. Bowes founded and was Chairman of Darien Rowayton Bank, a state chartered commercial bank that provided commercial and private banking services to wealthy clients. He also founded and led Lyon Credit Corporation, a $400 million commercial finance company for Credit Lyonnais as its CEO. Mr Bowes successfully sold the company in late 1999 to a commercial bank.
Mr. Bowes began his career at GE Capital and later moved to EF Hutton where he developed tax strategies and financing products for Hutton clients. His company was later sold to Chrysler Corporation. At Chrysler, as CEO he led and grew the company, Chrysler Capital Corporation, to a $7 billion commercial finance company, providing financing and services to a wide variety of commercial clients, many of whom were in the energy space.
Mr. Bowes received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from the University of Bridgeport
Chip Carstensen
Andrew "Chip" Carstensen is an experienced finance professional with specific experience in project finance and capital markets. His focus for the past fifteen years has been the North American energy and power markets. He has structured over six billion dollars in financings involving senior debt, cash equity, tax equity and lease equity. He has held executive positions with GE Capital, Societe Generale, Nord lb and most recently, Black Emerald Capital Partners.
Robert J. Gillispie
Robert Gillispie is a corporate partner in Sullivan & Worcester LLP’s New York office. He has been involved in asset-based financing for well over 40 years. Mr. Gillispie was a partner at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon from 1975 to 1995 and a partner at Chadbourne & Park LLP from 1995 to 2006 when he joined Sullivan & Worcester.
Mr. Gillispie has negotiated and documented domestic and cross-border lease, partnership and secured loan transactions, as well as synthetic leases. The assets he has been involved in have varied from aircraft, railcars, satellites and vessels to electric generating plants, hydro-electric facilities, renewable energy facilities, gas distribution networks and waste water collection and transportation systems. The current focus of Mr. Gillispie’s practice is on renewable energy and infrastructure financings.
Mr. Gillispie received a B.E.E. from Catholic University in 1965 and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Catholic University Columbus School of Law in 1968, where he was Editor-in- Chief for the Catholic University Law Review. He is admitted to the New York and Supreme Court of the United States Bars and is a member of New York Bar and American Bar Associations. Mr. Gillispie authored a chapter entitled “Leveraged Leasing” in Equipment Leasing and has lectured at numerous seminars. He has been named in The Best Lawyers in America for the last five years.
Michael K. Mittleman
Michael Mittleman is a senior executive in operations with over 30 years of upper management and C level with hands-on experience in creating and managing successful companies, particularly in large scale construction and renewable energy field. In the last 10 years, Mr. Mittleman has been president, senior vice president and chief operating officer in several construction and renewable energy firms, most recently as a partner in Black Emerald Capital Partners.
Mr. Mittlemans’ experience has ranged from being president of a construction forensics firm to chief operating officer. Mr. Mittleman was CEO of American Building Industries, and was President of Construction Data Systems that provided forensic examinations of residential developments in class action cases against large residential developers for the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in CA. He also was chief operating officer at SPG Solar and grew that company from $20 million to $100 million in annual sales, installing approximately 100 megawatts of commercial solar.
Mr. Mittleman started his career at 2M Construction and later moved to American Building Industries where his firm held the U.S. record for speed of build time in the successful construction of multi-screen movie theatres. At SPG Solar, as COO he led and grew the company to become the 3rd largest commercial solar EPC in the country. At Stellar Energy, Mr. Mittleman turned the company around into a profitable concern which was recently acquired.
Mr. Mittleman attended California State University, Northridge with an emphasis on business management.