Board of Directors

Anik Gandhi

Anik Gandhi is Principal for Lotus Infrastructure Partners. In this role, he is responsible for principal investing and asset management within the energy infrastructure sector.

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Prior to joining Lotus Infrastructure Partners, Mr. Gandhi was an Associate at Goldman Sachs in the Global Natural Resources Investment Banking group. At Goldman Mr. Gandhi focused on transactions involving regulated utilities, merchant generators, and conventional generation assets.

His responsibilities included creating and assessing operational and financial valuation models for potential merger and acquisition opportunities, analyzing potential impacts of market regulations on generation assets, developing and presenting client pitchbooks and investment marketing materials, and performing industry research and transaction due diligence.

Mr. Gandhi holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Jeffrey Delgado

Jeffrey Delgado is a Managing Director and Head of Asset Management of Lotus Infrastructure Partners. In this role, he is responsible for the asset management and commercial optimization of Lotus’ assets and sits on the boards of portfolio companies. In addition, Mr. Delgado supports acquisition, development and construction activities. Mr. Delgado has over 30 years of experience in the optimization, management and operations of projects, including thermal and renewable power generation, midstream gas, renewable natural gas, hydrogen and transmission.

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Prior to joining Lotus f/k/a Starwood Energy Group in 2015, Mr. Delgado was Director of Business Management with Caithness Energy where he was responsible for asset management and operations oversight of sixteen projects totaling over $3B. Mr. Delgado began his career at Con Edison where he held various operating positions at the utility’s power generation and substation facilities, and asset management and operations responsibility for the assets of its unregulated subsidiary.

Mr. Delgado holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business.

Miguel Prado

Miguel Prado is Chief Executive Officer of energyRe. Mr. Prado will oversee the management and expansion of the Company’s generation and transmission assets to meet the growing demand for reliable, resilient and responsive renewable energy solutions with domestic sources that create economic and community benefits in American cities.

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Mr. Prado joins energyRe from EDP Renewables, a global leader in the renewable energy sector and the world’s fourth largest producer of wind energy, where he most recently served as CEO of North America. Under his leadership, EDPR NA tripled its growth, and quadrupled the value of the company’s publicly traded shares. Mr. Prado was a key driver of the company’s growth to the 4th largest wind generation company in the world. Mr. Prado managed EDPR’s 1,000 U.S. based employees, and oversaw the company’s 8.8 GWs of renewable projects under management, more than $11 billion of assets and a development pipeline of more than 15 GWs. As CEO, Mr. Prado was a member of the global management committee and oversaw corporate procurement. In his 19-year tenure with EDP renewables, Mr. Prado also held the title of Head of Investments, Mergers and Acquisitions investing more than $18B in significant acquisitions in 14 different countries.

Mr. Prado holds PhD in Business and Management from the University of Oviedo and Bradford, UK and an Executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain.

Pedro Pereira

Pedro A. Pereira is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Development Officer of energyRe. Mr. Pereira directs energyRe’s corporate development activities, managing investments and financing to meet the growing demand for renewable energy solutions, overseeing the company’s strategy & planning functions, and advancing the management and expansion of the corporate areas across the different business platforms.

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Prior to joining energyRe, Mr. Pereira was the Global Head of Business Development and a member of the Investment Committee at EDP Renewables. In these roles, Mr. Pereira led the vision and strategy definition for new markets with the implementation of the company’s international growth platform, all international M&A activities, and global or regional partnerships. During his tenure, this new business development organization allowed EDPR to double its worldwide footprint and establish a new growth platform for Asia following the successful acquisition of a S$1.1 billion pan-Asian utility-scale and distributed-generation solar company. Mr. Pereira also served as the Director of Finance at EDP Renewables North America – having originated and executed $4.0 billion of tax equity investments and project financings in the US, Canada and Mexico. Mr. Pereira has also held various positions in investment banking M&A advisory in Europe.

Mr. Pereira is a Civil Engineer graduate from University of Lisbon’s IST and holds an MBA from the Nova School of Business and Economics with an extension at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He has also completed several executive education courses at Harvard Business School and Rice University’s Jones School of Business.