leadership

Gregory Forero

Founder & CEO

  • Co-founder and CEO of HGP Storage and Highgate Power (distributed generation companies) with over 25 years of experience in the energy sector

  • Corporate career spanned senior roles at several financial institutions and large energy merchants (UBS AG, Williams, Constellation, TXU)

  • Co-managed 4 GW of CAISO generation assets through deregulation (1998)

  • Managed the deregulation of ERCOT for incumbent utility TXU with 18 GW of generation assets and load (from 2001)

  • As Head of Energy Derivatives at UBS, Greg managed a team of traders and quants, modeling and taking positions in wholesale electricity markets across the United States (2007)

  • Developed DER assets in ERCOT since 2013, providing reliability in areas dominated by wind generation

  • MSc, Financial Mathematics, from the University of Chicago; BA, Economics, Wesleyan University

 

Evan Caron

Managing Partner

  • Career spanning 20 years of electricity/natural gas expertise in trading, finance, structuring and risk management

  • Former Head of North American trading at Trailstone Group (a Riverstone company)

  • Founder/CEO ClearTrace, a venture backed emissions and carbon management company

  • Director and Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and Mercuria Energy

  • BA, Finance, Binghamton School of Management

  • Co-developed 20+ distributed energy assets and over 200MW of resiliency and micro-grid solutions in ERCOT

  • Former board member and investor in MP2 Energy (Shell Company)