Veteran Investment Banker Joins Tri Global Energy As Chief Commercial Officer

DALLAS, May 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Brent Lewis, co-founder of the full-service investment bank MLV & Co., has joined Tri Global Energy (TGE) (http://www.triglobalenergy.com), an emerging leader in the clean energy industry, as the company's Chief Commercial Officer. 

Lewis has over fifteen years of senior-level corporate advisory, project finance and management experience in energy, infrastructure and utilities and has closed on dozens of transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $15 billion. 

"Brent brings a wealth of experience to our management team as we continue to develop our unique, utility-scale, community-based wind energy farms and begin our planned expansion into solar and hybrid energy projects," said Tri Global Chairman and CEO John Billingsley.

While at MLV & Co, Lewis focused on growth companies in capital intensive sectors including biotech, oil & gas, cleantech, power, metals and mining. Prior to his work at MLV & Co, Lewis worked as a senior banker at Marathon Capital, and served as a Managing Director with Cantor Fitzgerald's investment banking group in New York, where he led the firm's global energy and infrastructure investment banking business.

He started his banking career with ABN AMRO, and while there, worked in various project finance and investment banking roles. His last position was as Director in the bank's Project and Structured Capital Markets group, where he was responsible for overseeing, originating and executing global structured capital markets transactions predominantly project financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors, but also on principal transactions where ABN AMRO was an equity investor.

Lewis's renewable and traditional energy and power experience also includes wind, solar, carbon capture, gas, waste coal and biomass fired power, upstream E&P and ethanol. He also has extensive experience in infrastructure finance, having advised on and raised capital for several large-scale toll road and airport privatizations domestically and overseas.

Lewis also has committed significant time working pro bono in developing countries on finance and renewable energy projects in South Sudan, Cambodia, Zimbabwe and Nepal. Prior to his career in finance, he played professional football for three years in the Canadian Football League.

He received his BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

About Tri Global Energy:
Tri Global Energy was founded in January 2009 to develop clean energy at an affordable cost and believes the development of clean wind, solar, and hybrid energy should directly benefit the communities that provide the power. TGE's proprietary "Wind Force Plan" development model allows for landowners and communities to partner with and share ownership in their wind farm development project. Currently the company has wind power projects under development in West Texas, Eastern New Mexico, and the Central U.S. For more information, visit http://www.triglobalenergy.com.

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SOURCE Tri Global Energy