GTM Solar Focus: How COVID-19 Will Impact U.S. Large-Scale Solar Project Development

As a Vice President of Project Finance, Cassidy leads the team responsible for securing the capital necessary to realize on our pipeline by executing debt, tax equity and M&A transactions.Over the course of her career, she has financed approximately 3 GW of solar projects with varying off-take and financial structures.Prior to Cypress Creek in 2017, Cassidy led the M&A team at Recurrent Energy after several years leading project finance transactions, including the corporate sale of Recurrent Energy to Canadian Solar.Before joining Recurrent Energy, Cassidy was a consultant at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a power and electricity-focused advisory firm. Cassidy received her BA from Stanford University.

Mr. Jimmy Chuang is a seasoned renewable energy executive with over 15 years of experience in the areas of capital raising, structured finance, M&A, principal investment, and business development. Throughout his career, Jimmy has executed various transactions for an aggregate value of $50 billion. Over the past 13 years, he has held C-level executive management positions at several world’s largest, publicly traded and private solar and storage companies, Strata Solar, GCL, SolarCity (now Tesla), Fotowatio, and Protection 1 (now ADT Security), and built and financed more than 3GW (or $6 billion) of residential, commercial and utility scale solar PV and storage assets in the U.S. Currently, he is the Chief Capital Markets Officer at Strata Solar, one of the largest, fully integrated solar and storage energy service providers in the U.S., where he is responsible for its corporate finance, structured finance and M&A efforts. Jimmy received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, selected as a Bill Gates Scholar and honored as a University of California Regents’ Scholar.

Mr. Medina coordinates ThoughtTrace’s product implementation efforts across the oil & gas, power generation, renewable energy, and real estate markets. For the past decade, Mr. Medina’s experience has spanned across multiple industry sectors and he has worked with publicly traded and private equity firms along with government agencies. Arthur has been involved with over $30 billion in asset sales working with buyers, sellers, and financial institutions involved in the transaction process. In addition to Medina’s transaction experience, he has spearheaded development projects across the US working closely with asset managers, engineers, land and legal, real estate, and technical business units.

Medina began his career in east Texas with DMV Petroleum and Aspen Pipeline, LP. Most recently he served as an executive for a PE-backed energy firm that was acquired by Satori Capital. Medina sits on the education development board of the AAPL that is responsible for developing new courses and content for the industry. He holds a BBA from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Ravi is the head of solar research at Wood Mackenzie, where he focuses on solar-plus-storage, solar integration on the grid and related power markets issues. Prior to his current role, he was the head of Wood Mackenzie’s energy storage research practice and covered global storage markets and value chain analysis. As an industry expert, Ravi has been quoted in various publications including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, BBC, Christian Science Monitor, Wired, and Verge. Ravi has over 10 years of experience in renewables as a consultant, analyst and engineer. Ravi holds a Master of International Business degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering degree from University of Washington, Seattle and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India.