REAL Houston’s mission is to ensure Houston’s standing as the Energy Transition Capital by increasing the visibility of the clean energy industry, connecting thought leaders, growing the network of clean energy industry professionals, and promoting innovation.
C. Kay McCall serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Renewable Energy Alliance – Houston. In this position, Kay provides strategic and tactical guidance to the organization. She is passionate about supporting Houston’s continued leadership in energy.
A senior energy industry executive with close to two decades of experience in the renewable energy industry, Kay has worked extensively in the conventional power, oil and gas services, engineering and construction, and manufacturing industries.
Partner
A nationally recognized leader in the renewable energy finance and transactional space, Jessica Adkins represents power, renewable and other energy industry stakeholders to develop, finance and invest in energy projects and businesses.
Business Development Officer
Brian is the Business Development Officer for Stewart Title’s Energy Services group in Houston. Stewart is a leading underwriter on energy projects across the United States.
Partner
Jim Cole is a partner in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins LLP. His practice focuses on transactional tax involving mergers, acquisitions, financings, restructurings, and capital markets transactions with a particular emphasis on tax incentives associated with renewable energy and other infrastructure projects.
Vice President of Business Development
Rob is the V.P. Business Development for AmTrust Title’s national energy group. Rob has 20+ years of renewable energy experience assisting clients in launching successful projects.
Partner & Chair, Renewable Energy Section
Ben Cowan is the Chair of Locke Lord’s Renewable Energy Section. He has over 18 years’ experience representing renewable energy project developers on project siting, permitting and financing issues. Ben serves as national environmental counsel to several of the largest renewable energy development companies in the United States.
Regional Practice Manager, Power Generation
David is a regional practice manager for power generation at Burns & McDonnell. He has more than 20 years of experience developing and managing contracted and merchant utility-scale power and cogeneration natural gas combined-cycle facilities, as well as negotiating energy supply and off-take agreements with utilities and large power and steam users.
Managing Counsel
Shelley Eichenlaub is Managing Counsel with Broad Reach Power, focused on supporting and advising battery energy storage project development activities for ERCOT, CAISO and MISO including engineering, procurement, construction, asset management activities, software services, joint ventures and M&A activities.
Partner
Denis (Archie) Fallon is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Mr. Fallon represents private equity funds and corporate clients in strategic transactions primarily in the energy, infrastructure and technology sectors. Mr. Fallon has particular experience advising on platform investments, mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, recapitalizations and project development.
Executive Vice President & Partner
Allen Gelwick helps lead Lockton’s global Energy Power, Transition and Renewable initiatives. In addition to cofounding Lockton Texas, Allen’s years of experience enable him to combine a commercial understanding of the space to address emerging risks, solve problems and optimize cost efficiencies. Allen’s background includes BESS, Biomass, Hydro, Hydrogen, SAF, Solar, Underground Storage and Wind. Beyond traditional insurance Allen is a leader in bespoke insurance solutions supporting transactions, tax equity and financing.
Executive Vice President of Affiliate Member Relations and Foundation Coordination
Leslie Liedtke Griffin is Executive Vice President of Affiliate Member Relations and Foundation Coordination at Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA). Leslie leads all of CEA’s member communications and events, membership recruiting and marketing, and external and charitable fundraising for CEA, as well as for its sister organization, the Consumer Energy Education Foundation (CEEF).
Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications and Sustainability
Kelsey Hultberg is Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications and Sustainability of Sunnova Energy International Inc. [NYSE: NOVA], a leading residential solar and energy storage service provider based in Houston, TX. Kelsey has served in this role since April 2022, prior to which she served as Sunnova’s EVP, Chief of Staff; VP, Chief of Staff; and Director, Executive Communications and Strategy. Kelsey serves as the Chair of Sunnova’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Committee and is a founding committee member of Sunnova’s Women Leadership Network and Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee.
Executive Vice President, Renewable Services
Brian leads CAMS’ Renewable Services business which provides asset management, O&M and optimization services to wind, solar and energy storage assets. Having witnessed the impacts of an unreliable energy infrastructure while serving in the US Army overseas, Brian is passionate about progressing energy equity through the increased investment in clean energy infrastructure and related technologies.
Senior Vice President
Mr. Laura joined Oceaneering in 2014 as Director of Subsea Services supporting integrated projects and process improvement initiatives. Mr. Laura was promoted to Vice President of Service, Technology & Rentals in 2015, responsible for Oceaneering’s ROV tooling, IWOCS, and new integrated solutions businesses. Mr. Laura was promoted to Senior Vice President, Service and Rental in March 2020.
Head of Strategy
Andrew Moy is a partner and Head of Strategy at AISPEX (Advanced Integrated Systems for Power Exchange), a battery energy storage, EV and mobility charging manufacturer based out of Houston, TX. Andrew has served in this role since September 2022.
Managing Director
Gerry Willinger, Managing Director, is based in Marathon Capital’s Houston office. Gerry has spent the last 20+ years in the energy space where he has been a CEO and Investor , and has developed, acquired, and financed gas gathering, processing facilities, and cryogenic gas plants. He has operated over 1,000 wells and related pipeline infrastructure, as well as originated and managed a portfolio of approximately $2.0 billion in energy-related investments in equity, debt, DIP loans, restructured debt, unsecured claims, and royalty and net profit interests.
Vice President
Luca Roccia brings 20 years of experience in the Telecommunication, Energy, Oil & Gas and Renewable markets. His career path started in 2000, single parent and working student at Milan Polytechnic, supporting the engineering and execution of almost a hundred BTS (base transceiver station) in Italy.
Vice President for Risk Management and Sustainability Reporting
Ryan Scott is Vice President for Risk Management and Sustainability Reporting for HBW Resources. Ryan specializes in working with clients to better understand and achieve their goals by identifying risks to enterprise that exist outside of a company’s core operations.
Director of Development – Western Region & Mexico
Mr. Yamal serves as the Director of Development for the Western Region and Mexico. He leads the company’s wind, solar, and storage development activities in the western US markets and leads both development and power purchase agreement origination activities in Mexico. Mr. Yamal has been with the company since 2008 and has held strategy, finance, development, business development and origination positions along the way.
