RISE 2019 Conference

Transforming University Engagement In Pre- and Post-Disaster Environments: Lessons from Puerto Rico

Thomas King

President

Borincana Foundation

 

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Thomas King is an accomplished Senior Executive with more than 30 years of success in investment banking, private equity, consulting and investment in the alternative energy, biofuels, power and utility sectors. He has provided path-finding leadership in structured debt financings leading to solar energy ABS and was an early investor in and proponent of PACE financing. Mr. King recently launched and serves as President of the Borincana Foundation (www.fundacionborincana.org), a non-profit focused on guiding and accelerating the energy transformation of Puerto Rico. Mr. King is also Managing Partner of CrossRiver Capital and was a Founding Partner of US Renewables Group, the first private equity group focused solely on renewable power, bio-fuels/chemicals, and related infrastructure. Earlier in his career, Mr. King was Head of Utilities for North America at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and prior to that worked for over a decade with JP Morgan Chase in London and New York doing project and structured finance and advisory. Other career highlights include: Teesside Power, which was, at over $2 billion one of the largest non-recourse project financings ever and a landmark in 1991; key roles on the first power and utility privatizations in Portugal, India, Australia, and Ghana (among others); and within the Department of Energy established key program elements under the FIPP created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Thomas holds positions on the boards of ConservAmerica and the American Renewable Energy Institute. Over the course of his career, Thomas has served as an Advisor/Board Member for organizations including Enact Systems Inc., the Geothermal Energy Association, Alphabet Energy, the NY Green Bank, and CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital. Thomas received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from the University of California Santa Cruz. He obtained his Master of Business Administration in Finance, Energy, and International Business from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.