About us
Our Team
Our team is led by veterans of the largest Independent Power Producers (IPP) with decades of collective experience in project development, finance, construction and operations. We are dedicated to developing best-in-class clean energy solutions that deliver reliable clean electricity for utility and corporate energy consumers, produce predictable yields for project owners, and enhance landowners’ income.
Our Team, Delivering Decades and Gigawatts of Experience
Management
Rob Masinter
Chief Executive Officer
Rob Masinter is a renewable energy veteran with extensive experience in development, finance, construction, operations, and product management in the energy and technology industries.
As co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO), he is responsible for Redeux Energy’s strategy and execution, including building out a best-in-class, high-performing team. Prior to Redeux, Rob was COO of AES Distributed Energy, where he scaled engineering, procurement, construction and asset management teams and processes to increase annual deployment capacity by a factor of 10. Rob also served as the general manager for AES’ US battery energy storage fleet and as a member of AES’ corporate deal team for renewable acquisitions including sPower. Prior to AES, he led product management and field applications engineering for Advanced Energy’s solar inverter business. Prior to Advanced Energy, Rob co-founded OpTerra Energy Services, an ESCO roll-up backed by Oaktree Capital and eventually sold to ENGIE in 2016. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, an MS in Earth Science from Stanford University and a BA in Geology from Middlebury College.
Ilan Caplan
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
Ilan Caplan is a seasoned energy executive with over 25 years of industry experience in development, finance, and operations with a particular focus on renewable energy, having executed over 2.0 GW of solar and wind projects representing over $2bn in value.
At Redeux, Ilan is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He leads a team responsible for project portfolio sales and acquisitions together with related aspects of go-to-market strategy, deal process, and contracting. Additionally, Ilan is leading efforts to establish joint venture relationships with IPPs in selected markets. Before Redeux, Ilan led the US utility-scale solar development efforts of hep Solar, an international developer that acquired the solar development company Ilan co-founded. Ilan has served in key leadership and execution roles in all phases of utility-scale development and finance through complex greenfield and acquisition opportunities for juwi Inc., Compass Energies, Clipper Energy, and GE Energy. Ilan holds a BBA and a Masters in Professional Accounting, both from the University of Texas at Austin.
Christina Derlath
Senior Vice President, Finance and Accounting
Christina Derlath is a business executive with extensive experience in project finance and tax in the renewable energy industry. Christina is responsible for Redeux Energy’s project finance, tax structuring and business projections. Prior to joining Redeux, she worked in Mergers and Acquisitions at KPMG, leading advisory work for large renewable energy sponsors and developers and providing them with a full suite of M&A services, including acquisition structuring, modeling, due diligence, operational advice and disposition planning. Christina has a strong understanding of the financial and tax technical issues that commonly arise with partnership flip structures. She is a CPA and holds a MAC and BSBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Andy Hixson
Vice President, Development
Andy Hixson is a chemical engineer with nearly 20 years of experience in project finance and development activities in the renewable energy industry, including project acquisitions, contract negotiations, permit applications, engineering due diligence, and pro forma development.
At Redeux, Andy is responsible for utility-scale project development and is an architect of the company’s proprietary development process. Prior to joining Redeux, he served as E3 Consulting’s practice lead for solar and energy storage projects. Andy’s solar PV experience includes the review of more than 9 GW of projects at nearly 500 sites in North America. He has also managed due diligence services for more than 500 MW of standalone battery storage projects and approximately 1 GW of solar + storage projects. Andy has a M.S. in Global Energy Management from the University of Colorado at Denver School of Business and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Milap Shah
Senior Vice President, Technical Services
Milap Shah
Senior Vice President, Technical Services
Milap Shah is an experienced renewable energy and utility professional with over 25 years of expertise in engineering, including transmission interconnection, development engineering, execution engineering, procurement, construction support, and operations support. Milap is the Senior Vice President of Technical Services at Redeux Energy, where he is responsible for developing the team and processes to execute transmission planning, facility engineering, and permitting functions for renewable projects that enable the growth and quality of the company’s renewable energy project pipeline.
Prior to joining Redeux Energy, Milap worked as the Director of Engineering for EDPR NA, where he successfully scaled EDPR NA’s engineering capabilities to support the design, procurement, construction, and handover to Asset Management of over 8 GW of renewable projects. He also led the Development Engineering team that supported hundreds of projects in the Development pipeline. Throughout 15 years at EDPR NA, he also led technical due diligence for several project acquisitions. Before joining EDPR NA, Milap spent ten years in the transmission planning group of CenterPoint Energy, an investor-owned utility company.
Milap holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
Development
Cory Haynes
Senior Manager, Environmental and Permitting
Cory Haynes has worked in the renewable energy industry for more than five years, supporting utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects nationwide in various stages of development. As the Environmental Permitting Manager at Redeux, Cory is responsible for supporting all aspects of local, state, and federal permitting and compliance for utility-scale projects.
Prior to joining Redeux, Cory was a Project Manager at Jacobs, where he was responsible for the environmental and local permitting for a wide range of renewable projects across multiple regions. Cory has extensive experience with Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting, Endangered Species Act Section 7 & 10 consultation, wetland delineations, threatened and endangered species surveys, and state/local permitting. Cory graduated from the University of Georgia with a BS in Wildlife Sciences.
Rick Madison
Director, Land Acquisition
Rick Madison is a land professional with over 18 years of experience in the energy sector, specializing in land and mineral prospect generation, acquisition, management and divestiture. As a Redeux Director of Land Acquisition, Rick is responsible for executing the company’s land acquisition strategy for targeted utility-scale solar and storage development.
Prior to joining the Redeux team, Rick co-founded GreenShell Energy, Corp., a full-service land services brokerage headquartered in Denver, Colorado. He then served as Land Manager for Mustang Resources, LLC and Director of Land for Cowboy Clean Fuels, LLC. He holds degrees from Colorado State University (BSBA) and the University of Denver (MBA).
Alex Cook
Director, Market Strategy
Alex Cook has worked in energy market analytics, consulting, and strategy for over a decade. As Director of Market Strategy at Redeux, he is responsible for using trends, opportunities, and challenges in U.S. power markets to prioritize project development initiatives and form market entry strategies for both regulated and competitive markets.
Prior to joining Redeux, Alex was an Energy Transition Analytics Leader with GE Vernova, where he built capacity expansion models to create data-driven marketing initiatives in countries with decarbonization goals. Alex also has experience advising independent power producers in M&A transactions and policy advocacy with PA Consulting. He began his career at S&P Global, providing clients with power market forecasts, writing research, and supporting users experience on an interactive data analytics platform.
Alex holds an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology and a BA Economics from Ithaca College.
Michael Dennison
Sr. Director, Development
Michael Dennison joined Redeux Energy has a seasoned developer with over 15 years of experience in the energy industry. As Sr. Director of Development at Redeux, Michael is responsible for leading the development of utility-scale solar and battery storage projects, initially focused on the ERCOT market.
Prior to joining Redeux, Michael spent five years at Recurrent Energy where he successfully led the development of several now-operational utility-scale solar projects and grew Recurrent’s pipeline in the MISO region from nascent to over 2 GW of active queue positions including 400 MW of executed power contracts. He also held similar roles prior to Recurrent at E.ON Climate & Renewables and OCI Solar Power. Michael began his career in the energy industry as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton where he served clients in the US Air Force and US Army. Michael holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Board Members
W. Aaron Bowlds
Board Member
W. Aaron Bowlds
Board Member
W. Aaron Bowlds co-founded Thoroughbred Holdings, a holding company backed by Yorktown Energy Partners to own, operate and invest in energy, energy infrastructure and natural resources assets. He has served as a board member since 2015 and as managing director since 2016. He served as executive vice president of Terminal Holdings LLC from 2016 through its successful exit in 2018 to a consortium led by Tallgrass Energy. He is also founder and managing director of Zydeco Holdings, – which is redeveloping the site of the Willow Glen Terminal, a 2.2 million barrel multi-modal liquids terminal, on the Mississippi River. In 2020, he founded Redeux Energy.
Mr. Bowlds previously served as head of corporate development and general counsel for a global technology company backed by Blackstone, senior counsel at Level 3 Communications and held numerous executive and director roles in multiple industries, with deep experience in operations, M&A, public and private financing transactions and distressed investing. He began his career at the law firm K&L Gates focused on M&A and financing transactions and holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law.
Charles R. Wesley, IV
Board Member
Charles R. Wesley, IV
Board Member
Charles R. Wesley, IV co-founded Thoroughbred Holdings, a holding company backed by Yorktown Energy Partners to own, operate and invest in energy, energy infrastructure and natural resources asset. He has served as a board member there since 2015. He also served as president since 2014, and CEO since 2016. Additionally, Mr. Wesley serves as founder and managing director of Zydeco Holdings which is redeveloping the site of Willow Glen Terminal, a 2.2 million barrel multi-modal liquids terminal, on the Mississippi River. He is a Director of Redeux Energy.
Mr. Wesley previously developed the RAM Terminal site in Louisiana and served on its board until its successful exit to a consortium led by Tallgrass Energy. He is an independent director on the Board of Hallador Energy. Prior roles include serving as chief planning and commercial officer of Ramaco Resources, and senior counsel at Level 3 Communications, where he was responsible for the operation and ultimate disposition of the company’s coal mining operations. He began his level career at the law firms of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and Strasburger & Price, focusing on international energy transactions. He also worked as a mine engineer with a coal company. He is an active private investor in natural resources, financial technology and craft brewing and is a board member across multiple industries and philanthropic organizations. Mr. Wesley holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Cathexis Holdings
Cathexis Holdings
Cathexis Holdings is a Houston-based, multi-billion dollar, single-member family office. A diversified, multi-strategy group, Cathexis has active investments across industries including private equity, venture, real estate, infrastructure, energy, consumer products and technology.
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