Tessera Solar North America - Leadership

Bob Lukefahr - Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of Tessera Solar North America, Bob Lukefahr is responsible for all aspects of the North American development business which will develop, own and operate grid-scale solar facilities using Stirling Energy Systems (SES) groundbreaking SunCatcher Power System. Bob will drive the completion of the two existing projects with California utilities San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison of up to 1,750 MW, with a goal of developing 1,000 MW of new solar plants by the end of 2012.

Prior to joining Tessera Solar, Bob was President of BP Global Wind Energy / BP Power Americas. Bob created BP’s U.S. Wind Energy business in 2006 and built it to become one of the largest wind developers in the US. Under Bob’s leadership, BP’s US wind business installed over 1,000 MW of assets in the past two years and developed a pipeline of 20,000 MW of projects in development. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Wind Energy Association. Prior to joining BP, Bob was a partner in the energy practice at Booz & Company, a leading strategy consulting firm.

Gerritt Ewing - Chief Financial Officer

Gerritt Ewing has more than 30 years experience in Energy Finance. Most recently he was Assistant Treasurer for Energy Future Holdings (TXU) where he had primary responsibility for structured finance activities in the nuclear, renewable energy and gas gathering businesses. Prior to that Gerritt was Vice President, Structured Finance and Chief Financial Officer - Energy Asset Management, and has held numerous senior energy finance positions at banks, investment firms and power companies both in the US and UK.

Gerritt has a proven track record of successfully raising and structuring a wide variety of energy finance including recourse and non-recourse bank debt, multilateral international funding, and DOE funding.

Felicia Bellows - Vice President of Development

Felicia Bellows joined as VP of Development. She has more than 25 years of experience in Energy Development and has spent 15 years working in Energy in Latin America. Most recently she was Executive Vice President of Development for Econergy where she developed hydroelectric plants in Brazil and Chile. Prior to that Felicia was President, Alliant Energy Holdings do Brasil and Managing Director, Latin America, Alliant Energy International where she successfully developed and operated thermal power, hydroelectric power, and T&D systems. Felicia also worked at Southern Company as President, Southern Energy do Brasil and Director of Finance & Project Manager, Southern Energy where she was active in both acquisitions and developed Greenfield thermal assets.

Brent Bailey - Vice President General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Brent Bailey has more than 25 years of experience in energy law. Most recently he was Group Vice President and General Counsel for Duke Energy Americas where he managed a staff of more than 40 attorneys. Brent has extensive experience in every aspect of energy development and corporate law. Prior to working at Duke Energy, he was a Senior Counsel at Enron where he focused on power plant development, finance, and construction. Earlier in his career he held positions at several law firms.

Sean Gallagher - VP Market Strategy & Regulatory Affairs

Sean Gallagher joined Stirling Energy Systems and Tessera Solar as Vice President of Market Strategy and Regulatory Affairs in September 2008. Prior to this, Sean was the Director of the Energy Division of the California Public Utilities Commission, where he directed a staff of 115 charged with implementing Commission policy affecting energy utilities, including Resource Adequacy and Procurement, the Renewable Portfolio Standard, the California Solar Initiative, Energy Efficiency programs, Demand Response programs, and Transmission planning and permitting.

Howard Taylor - VP of Development

Howard Taylor has worked in the power and utility industry for the last 20+ years, in engineering, legal and business & project development roles. Initially Howard spent over 10 years developing business and projects in the water and power industry, domestically and internationally for Nalco / Nalco - Exxon. He took the position of Sr. Counsel in the Office of Policy Development at the Texas Public Utility Commission during the de-regulation period of 1999. At the TPUC he acted as the lead counsel on two strategic dockets, the renewable rule development and a transmission interconnect optimization docket as well as other deregulatory efforts. Howard joined Calpine in late 1999 and spent the next 6 years developing natural gas-fired projects both domestically and internationally, as well as evaluating various strategic power opportunities such as gasification (IGCC).

In 2007, Howard joined LS Power to start their renewable development initiative focusing on wind, PV, and CSP, and narrowed that focus to CSP only in 2008, after having developed a portfolio of sites under development.

Marcelo Figueira - Chief Operations Officer

Marcelo Figueira joined Tessera Solar North America as Chief Operations Officer in April 2010.  He is responsible for leading the Engineering, Construction, Operation and Asset Management for the company.  During his 25-year career, Marcelo has earned vast experience in the power industry, ranging from Electrical Engineering to Executive and Board positions at power companies around the globe.  Prior to joining Tessera Solar, Marcelo was the VP Asset Management of PetraSolar Inc, a leader in pole mounted distributed solar, the EVP of Asset Management for Econergy PLC, a start up focused on renewable investments including wind and small hydro projects, and General Manager Joint Venture Operations for PSEG Global, the unregulated business unit of PSEG, New Jersey.  At PSEG Global, Marcelo spent 10 years as CEO of PSEG in Argentina and General Manager of Global Investments in South America, India and Italy. Marcelo holds a BS, EE from Rosario University in Argentina and an MBA from Texas A&M University.