Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster | InterEnergy Group

Rolando is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of InterEnergy Group and has over 40 years of experience in project management and business development.

He began his career at Gulf & Western Industries where he started out as a special assistant to chairman and founder Charles Bluhdorn, eventually becoming its youngest corporate Vice President and Head of International Operations. After Gulf & Western, Rolando went on to establish his own companies to acquire and operate assets in the region.

Rolando, Georgetown University College Class 1968, serves on many of his alma mater’s boards. He was Chair of the International Initiatives Board and is currently a trustee on the Board of Advisers of the Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Latin American Board.

He is a Director and Trustee of the William, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. He is also a member of the Energy Committee of the Clinton Global Initiative, focusing on the development of clean and renewable energy. Rolando is proud to be a founding member of the Walkabout Foundation which has distributed 21,000 wheelchairs to date.

Santosh raikar | silverpeak renewables investment partners

Santosh Raikar is the Managing Partner of Silverpeak Renewables Investment Partners, responsible for leading the firm’s new renewable energy sector platform. Santosh has more than 20 years of experience in energy and infrastructure project finance, including renewable energy, oil & gas, power, and midstream infrastructure assets. Prior to joining Silverpeak, he was a Managing Director in the Renewable Energy Investments Group at State Street where he was responsible for leading a team in originating, structuring, and executing tax equity investments in the U.S. renewable energy sector. Santosh previously worked at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers in Principal Investment areas. He holds two Master of Science degrees, one in Technology and Policy Program from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the other in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Santosh also teaches a full-semester graduate level course titled “Renewable Energy Investments” at Carroll School of Management (Boston College). His first book, Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice, was published by Elsevier in December 2019.

KAREN FANG | Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Finance at Bank of AMERICA

Formerly, she was the head of Global Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) Cross Asset Trading, and the head of Americas FICC Sales & Solutions prior to that. She is a member of the Bank of America Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) committee, the Sustainable Markets Committee, as well as the firm wide Asian Leadership Council. Karen is a founding member of the 1t.org US Steering Council which is a public private partnership to advance reforestation and carbon finance initiatives, as well as a National Board member of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the largest Community Development Financial Institutions in the U.S.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Karen was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where she was the head of the Pension, Endowment and Foundation Cross Asset Solutions Group. Previously, she held senior positions in derivatives structuring, including at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo and Deutsche Bank in London.

Karen was named one of Fortune’s “40 under 40”and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF). She is a member of the WEF Expert Network. Karen is a recipient of the 2021 American Banker Most Powerful Women Standout Award, the 2021 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award, and Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business Award in 2020. Previously, She was chosen by Investment Dealers’ Digest as one of the “40 under 40” bankers and is also a recipient of the Women’s Bond Club of New York’s Rising Star Award.

Karen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo.

moderator: Raymond S. Wood | Bank of America

Ray serves as a Managing Director and Head of the Global Natural Resources Group at Bank of America with industry teams based in every major geographic region. He leads coverage teams across the industry landscape of regulated utilities, independent power, clean energy and global manufacturing as well as private equity and infrastructure sponsors. Over Mr. Wood's 30+ year career, he has assisted clients on noteworthy strategic transactions and financings, a number of which have been named "Deal of the Year." He has transaction expertise across the spectrum of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and SPACs, leveraged finance, structured finance, commodities and privatizations.

Recent transaction/sector focus includes:

  • Utility M&A and strategic advisory

  • Renewable portfolio & development platform M&A

  • Distributed generation capital formation (public & private capital)

  • SPAC mergers/PIPEs/IPOs across the clean tech/e-mobility landscape

  • Cross border M&A/flotations

  • Green bond issuance across energy sub sectors

Ray has lead responsibility for both Renewables and Clean Tech. The bank has a leading market position across global power, utilities and renewables. Specifically, he recently has led noteworthy transactions for Chargepoint, Protera, EVGo, ReNew Power, Generate Capital, Mainspring Energy and Envision Energy as well as a host of pending clean tech situations.

He received an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He has served on the following Board of Directors: AWEA, ACORE, MIT Sustainability Initiative and MIT Sloan Advisory Board as well as a BofA liaison to Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Policy Group and one of two banking representatives on the BofA Sustainable Finance Council.