Our Team

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.

Laura Anninos

Vice President, Human Resources

Laura Anninos is a Human Resource Executive with more than 15 years of experience spanning private and public sectors. She brings a wealth of experience in people leadership and organizational development along with a focus on implementing processes and developing a people-centric culture. As a member of Redeux’s leadership team, Laura is responsible for the development and execution of people strategies, the overall HR function, and process implementation in alignment with a rapid growth trajectory.

Prior to joining Redeux Energy, Laura served as Director of HR, Dietzler Companies, Dietzler Construction and WP Resources. She has held HR leadership roles across Oil and Gas, Retail, and Telecommunications industries. She holds an MBA Degree from Rutgers University, School of Business, along with an active Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) Certification.

Jeff Becker

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

Jeff Becker is a seasoned executive with over 22 years of experience in the energy industry. Jeff draws upon both in-house and law firm experience as a corporate and transactional attorney in the fields of utility scale renewable energy generation and storage, carbon capture and sequestration, and conventional energy development.

As Redeux’s General Counsel, Jeff is primarily responsible for all legal matters related to the company. He is a member of the senior management team working to advance the company’s strategic goals while effectively minimizing risk. Prior to joining Redeux, Jeff was the Chief Legal Officer of Carbon Capture America, Inc., a vertically integrated developer and operator of carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects. Jeff holds a JD from Tulane Law School, a MSPH in Environmental Management from Tulane University, and an AB in International Relations from Brown University. 

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.

Noah Eckert

Senior Vice President, Development & Strategy

Noah Eckert is a renewable energy executive who has spent that last 18 years developing and commercializing distributed and utility scale solar and storage applications, totaling over $3bn in asset value. As Senior Vice President of Development & Strategy, Noah is responsible for leading the origination, development, and execution of Redeux’s project portfolio across the US market. Prior to Redeux, Noah developed and financed approximately 2GW across more than 60 projects for D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments, Community Energy, BayWa r.e., Canadian Solar, and BP Solar. Noah holds an IMBA and MS Finance from the University of Denver and a BA from Northwestern University.

Garrett Gill

Senior Vice President, Program Management & Land Operations

Garrett Gill serves as Senior Vice President of Program Management and Land Operations at Redeux Energy, leveraging 25+ years of experience in the land-related aspects of utility-scale solar, wind, high voltage overhead/underground electric transmission and distribution project development.  He is responsible for Redeux’s project management functions as well as the instrumentation of KPIs to ensure cross-functional coordination, corporate governance, and operational efficiency.  In addition to leading program management, Garrett oversees Redeux’s land function—managing site acquisition strategies, title, GIS, and landowner engagement efforts across all markets. 

Prior to Redeux, Garrett held senior leadership roles at Contract Land Staff, TRC, and Coates Field Service, where he supported development efforts spanning several hundred gigawatts of renewable energy and more than 6,000 miles of electric transmission. A seasoned land professional, he has led large-scale campaigns nationwide and built scalable programs that align field execution with strategic development goals and corporate processes.  He is a certified Scrum Master and an 11-year U.S. Army veteran, having served in the prestigious Presidential Honor Guard.

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. 

Larson Baker

Manager, Development

As a Manager of Development at Redeux, Larson is responsible for supporting the company’s development of high-quality utility-scale solar and battery storage projects.

Prior to his role as a Development Manager, Larson worked with Redeux as an Energy Market Analyst. His responsibilities included data organization, analysis, and market research on Regional Transmission Operators (RTOs) and utilities across the United States. Before joining Redeux, Larson worked for Industria Partners, where he researched industrial decarbonization, renewable infrastructure, renewable services and climate technology for newsletters and press releases focused on trends and tailwinds in renewable energy markets. Larson attended Colorado College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Environmental Studies. 

James Beach

Vice President, Development

James Beach has been active in the power industry since 1996, specializing in project development, raising capital, structuring non-recourse and corporate debt financing, and acquisitions and divestitures.  As Vice President of Development for the CAISO region, James is focused on battery energy storage development – including project and offtake origination, project management, and relationship development with long term asset owners.

He was previously co-founder and managing partner of EnerSmart Storage, a developer of front-of-the-meter battery energy storage projects, building a portfolio of approximately 200MW in SDG&E territory between 2020-2024.  Prior to this, James was a Managing Director at Ascend Analytics, a leading decision analysis and risk management company in the energy industry, where he advised clients on the valuation and optimization of battery storage projects.  Over the course of his career, James founded and led two start-up renewable energy development companies and held roles with two large U.S. independent power producers, where he closed power generation project transactions totaling nearly $5 billion and over 8,000MW.  James earned an M.B.A. from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, and a B.A. in Russian Studies and B.S. in International Business and Marketing from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  James has extensive international experience and is fluent in both Russian and French. 

Alex Cook

Senior Manager, Market Strategy

Alex Cook has worked in energy market analytics, consulting, and strategy for over a decade. As Senior Manager 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

Director, Corporate Development

Michael Dennison joined Redeux Energy has a seasoned developer with over 15 years of experience in the energy industry. As Director of Corporate 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.

Andy Hixson

Senior Director, Corporate 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.

Kiran Singh

Senior Analyst, Corporate Development

As a Senior Analyst for Corporate Development, Kiran Singh supports Redeux’s Corporate Development team. His responsibilities include data organization, analysis, and market research on Regional Transmission Operators (RTOs) and utilities across the United States. Prior to Redeux, Kiran worked for Lexidyne LLC where he utilized large scale medical databases to develop machine learning models and drive insights in understanding opportunity and strategic decision making for business development in the pharmaceutical space. Kiran attended Colorado College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Economics.

Tobias Stockhausen

Manager, Corporate Development

Tobias Stockhausen is a Mergers & Acquisitions specialist with extensive experience executing a variety of M&A transactions.

As Redeux’s Manager of Corporate Development, Tobias supports M&A strategy and execution. He is responsible for sell-side and buy-side transactions as well as cultivating relationships with early-stage developers and project owners that include IPPs, utilities and infrastructure funds.

Tobias spent over four years with Houlihan Lokey, an international middle-market boutique investment bank, where he was an Associate in the Consumer, Food and Retail team based in London. He advised on +10 M&A transactions including sell-side, buy-side, auction, bilateral, cross-border, carve-out and bolt-on mandates for clients including private equity firms, multinational corporates and entrepreneurs across a broad range of assets and sub-verticals.

Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Tobias completed multiple finance-related internships including in KPMG’s Finance Advisory team as well as Warth & Klein Grant Thorton’s Corporate Finance & Advisory Services team.

Tobias holds an MSc in Finance from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and a BSc in Business Administration from Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder.