General Counsel

Debi Galler

Debi Galler is General Counsel for Green Street.  Prior to joining Green Street, Debi was Of Counsel at Berger Singerman LLP, and before that McDermott Will & Emery, where she advised clients in commercial real estate, transactional, and financial matters. Debi’s work has led her to become recognized and referenced in articles featured in Law360, Bloomberg News, ABA GP Solo eNews, and the podcast titled “The Resilient Lawyer.” Debi graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Miami Law School, sat on the Miami Law Review, and is also a Member of the Order of the Coif.

Chief Capital Markets Officer

Max Whitacre

Max has extensive technical experience financing renewable energy projects.  Most recently, he co-founded Radiance Structured Finance, a renewable energy finance company that provides long-term project finance loans and then sells or securitizes loan pools to effectuate lower costs of capital. Prior to Radiance, Max was Vice President of Alternative Energy Finance at the National Cooperative Bank. While at NCB, Max was actively involved in all phases of the deal execution lifecycle, managing due diligence and financial modeling for over $275 million of renewable energy loans. He also oversaw the credit approval process for all new renewable energy loan projects, monitored servicing of a $500 million portfolio, and assisted with secondary markets efforts associated with the sale of loans backed by solar projects. Prior to NCB, Max was employed by LaSalle Bank’s leasing division where he completed a formal credit training program. Max holds a B.A. in Economics from John Hopkins University, a M.B.A. from Oxford University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Chief Financial Officer

Amir Richulsky

Amir serves as GSPP’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining GSPP, Amir served as an integral part of the finance team at the Sapir Organization for five years. Here he held the position of CEO of Sapir Corp Ltd., the opportunistic arm (publicly traded in Israel) of The Sapir Organization.

Before joining the Sapir Organization, Amir served in a financial leadership roles at both Adam America and Deloitte.

Civically, he is active in Jewish organizations, including the Israeli American Council.
Amir holds a BA in Accounting and Business Management and is a licensed CPA in Israel.

Director of Asset Management

Osman Sediqi

Osman has been in the solar industry since 2009 and heads the Asset Management and Operation & Maintenance department at GSPP. Prior to joining GSPP, he led the Operational and Asset Management department of Grasshopper Solar, with a team of over 50 professionals. Osman was a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Koenig & Consultants from 2009 till 2014, offering energy related management consulting services to global clients. As part of this venture, he also co-founded Mining Energy Advisors, a platform that supported global mining companies to transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy.
Osman holds a degree from University of Applied Science Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He graduated with a double major in Finance and International Marketing Management.

Tax Consultant

Christine Sheridan

Christine Sheridan leads our renewable energy practice out of our Boston, Massachusetts office. She specializes in providing transaction advisory services to developers, syndicators and investors that qualify for the renewable energy tax credits (RETCs). She has assisted developers in structuring transactions, financial modeling, cost segregations, HLBV analysis and due diligence for solar and wind projects using renewable energy investment tax credits and production tax credits. Christine also has extensive experience consulting on accounting, tax, and regulatory matters, as well as providing traditional audit and tax services in the RETC, Historic Tax Credit, and Low Income Housing Tax Credit industries. Christine is a regular speaker at industry conferences. She earned her Master of Science degree in Taxation (MST) from Northeastern University and is licensed in Massachusetts as a Certified Public Accountant.

Director, Investments

Dan Packard

Before joining GSPP, Dan served as a Director and lead the Renewable Energy Finance practice at Enhanced. Prior to this role, he served as the Director of Finance for Enhanced Capital where he led the accounting department in financial statement and tax preparation. Before joining Enhanced Capital, he was a Senior Accountant with Ernst & Young where he provided auditing and attestation services for public and private companies. Dan specializes in corporate and partnership tax, GAAP accounting and structured finance for clean energy investments with involvement in over $500 million of renewable energy transactions.
Dan is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from Colorado College and an M.S. in Accounting – Finance from the University of New Orleans.
Dan is the board treasurer of unCommon Construction, a non-profit that teaches leadership and real world skills to high school apprentices through the build process.

Office Manager

Stephanie Santana

One of the first five employees to join Green Street, Stephanie has managed everything from office operations, to customer acquisition, to deal qualification, to residential operations. She now serves as GSPP’s Office Manager and does an incredible job creating a great work environment for everyone at Green Street. Stephanie attended Mercy College, where she studied biology and education.

Senior Counsel and Director, Diligence

Kristen Simmons

Kristen Simmons is Associate Counsel for Green Street, where she leads the legal due diligence effort. Prior to joining Green Street, Kristen was a senior attorney at the Florida Public Service Commission, where she was responsible for the procedural and legal aspects of matters concerning the utility industry, including acting as co-counsel on a utility-proposed 1490 MW community solar project. Before working in the utility arena, Kristen worked at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection supervising rulemaking and wetland training staff and working with the US Army Corps on Florida’s Section 404 assumption efforts. Kristen graduated Cum Laude from Florida State University College of Law.

Senior Counsel

Jennifer Pettineo

Jennifer has over 10 years of legal experience. In 2010, Jennifer began working for the State of Florida Department of Financial Services where she spent 5 years as Senior Attorney. At the Department of Financial Services, Jennifer provided litigation, legal interpretation and support in all insurance receivership matters. In 2015, Jennifer went on to become Chief Counsel for the State of Florida Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Office of the Insurance Consumer Advocate. There she served as the legal and legislative liaison to the Florida Department of Financial Services and the Office of Insurance Regulation for 4 years. At GSPP, Jennifer provides corporate legal counsel. Jennifer graduated from The University of Miami School of Law in 2006.

Associate Counsel

Ashley Paine

Ashley Paine is Associate Counsel for Green Street. Prior to joining Green Street, Ashley was at Capital One Bank for 5 years, where she began her legal career. She provided trial preparation, witness testimony, discovery preparation, and new witness training programming. Ashley transitioned to Capital One’s Small Business Special Assets team, focusing on Small Business and SBA loans. She regularly drafted forbearance agreements, conducted collateral review, and provided support for Commercial Real Estate. Ashley attended Florida State University and received her J.D. from Florida State University College of Law.

Diligence Analyst

Amy Vaughn

Paralegal

Richard Galler

Richard graduated from Florida International University in 2014 with a BA in Psychology. Upon graduating, Richard began tutoring students of all ages. He then went on to work for the Florida abuse hotline as an Abuse Counselor. Now at Green Street Richard works in the Legal department out of our Tallahassee office. He assists the General Counsel with corporate, business, development, and real estate related transactions.

Director of Utility Markets

Craig Dwyer

Craig Dwyer founded MainLine Solar LLC in 2009, and grew the Company from a residential EPC to over 25 MW of commercial and utility scale projects successfully commissioned across the northeast. In 2012, Dwyer went on to serve as Director of Business Development for MainLine’s financing partner, Tangent Energy Solutions – a provider of load management services and distributed generation assets to both utility and C&I. Dwyer put over 300 MW of municipal utility load under management across ISO-NE in 2 years, and developed 5 MW of solar PPAs working with Fortune 500 customers. After Tangent, Dwyer went on to serve as Senior Sales Director at Brightergy in 2014 opening the Kansas City based company’s Boston office and growing the C&I solar developer’s northeast office from $0 to $30M in sales in 2 years. Dwyer left in 2016 to found Terawatt to focus on developing small-mid size utility scale solar projects for municipal utility customers and now has over 200 MW in development nationwide.

Business Development Analyst

Senay Bellete

Director of Capital Markets

Andrew McCarthy

Andrew’s motivation to make a lasting impact led him to pursue a career in renewable energy. His previous experiences as Project Accountant at Savills Studley and Assistant Manager of Assets at Pentax Medical has helped him not only hone his strengths in accounting, finance, and operations development, but has also afforded him intimate involvement in multi-million-dollar commercial real estate transactions and the highly regulated medical device industry. At Green Street, he oversees asset management, assists with financial analysis, and is the liaison to our financiers. Andrew completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Delaware where he double-majored in Finance and Accounting.

Staff Accountant

Josh Ramos

Josh has over 2 years of experience as an auditor with The Bonadio Group working with a variety of clients, mainly in the not for profit industry. Josh has experience working on various types of audits, including financial statement, DOL benefit plan, and single audit as well as providing advisory services to clients.

Josh completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Albany, State University of New York in 2016 with a B.S. in Accounting and in 2017 with an M.S. in Professional Accounting. He is licensed in the state of New York as a Certified Public Accountant.

AP/AR Analyst

Elizabeth Geiger

Director of Construction & Engineering

Tong Xia

Tong Xia has over eight years of experience in the renewable energy industry. Since 2009, Tong has been involved in residential, commercial, industrial and large-scale PV system development, design, engineering, permitting, procurement, construction and O&M. With hands-on experience in PV system construction, Tong has facilitated the implementation of over 50MW of systems. Prior to joining Green Street, Tong served as the Senior Project Engineer at Onyx Renewable Partners. Before Onyx, Tong was the Director of Engineering at OnForce Solar, one of the largest and leading solar EPC firms in New York City at the time. Tong holds NABCEP certified PV installation professional certificate and NABCEP certified PV system inspector certificate. Tong has a B.S. in Civil Engineering in China, and an M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of New Mexico.

Project Engineer

Farah Haddad

Farah is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), she holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Power & Energy Engineering with 3 years experience in Solar Systems as a Project Engineer. She has worked on multiple commercial and utility projects across the Middle East, in Jordan, Dubai and Egypt. She has designed, managed, directed on site safety procedures and performed quality assurance/quality control on projects ranging from 500kW to 5MW.

Project Engineer

Shen Liu

Shen brings 4 years of solar industry experience to GSPP, working hands-on in the commercial and industrial section in NYC and the tri-state area where he was responsible for survey, engineering design, permitting, and construction management. At GSPP, Shen has taken on the role of Project Engineer where he assists the Project Management and Engineering team in the development of new assets. Shen attended the University of Michigan where he received his Master’s degree in Energy Systems Engineering.

Director of Construction & Project Management

Michael Andrews

Mike joined Green Street’s commercial team as the primary Green Street representative responsible for the direction and completion of commercial and utility-scale solar projects. Having spent 18 years working for a commercial project development and construction, Mike currently supervises activities related to procurement, project bidding, submittals, and construction, and ensures each project is completed in a high-quality, profitable, and safe manner.

Senior Project Manager

Matthew Kowalski

Interested in renewables and sustainability from an early age, Matt graduated from SUNY, College of Environmental Science & Forestry with a BS in Sustainable Construction Management Engineering. Following his graduation, Matt worked with the New York State DoT. Soon after, he joined Green Street, where he began in site design. Passionate and motivated, Matt grew to manage the site design team before moving into his current role in Construction & Project Management.

Senior Project Manager

Jonathan Middendorf

Jonathan Middendorf entered the renewable energy industry in 2008, amounting to 13 years of photovoltaic experience in residential, commercial, governmental, and utility-scale PV systems. He has managed and installed 250 Megawatts of solar, and counting, in Minnesota alone. He is a NABCEP Certified Photovoltaic Energy Practitioner with a strong knowledge in the NEC. He holds certificates in NFPA 70 E, OSHA 30, Construction Site Erosion and Stormwater Management, Advanced Residential Photovoltaic Design and Installation, and Solar Project Management. He is six sigma lean production trained and has an emphasis in QA/QC management, operations management, and project management. He is highly skilled in development, design, permitting, engineering, civil, procurement, construction, commissioning and testing, O&M, electrical 1,000 & 1,500 volts DC, and high voltage services up to 35 KV.

Jonathan began with simple roots growing up on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota, where he learned to work hard at an early age. He has over 24 years of experience in the construction industry – ranging from residential, commercial, agricultural, and governmental. Prior to joining Green Street, he worked as a Project Manager for a utility-scale EPC firm.

Project Manager

Dylan Reitenbach

Dylan comes to GSPP with over 5 years in C&I and small utility scale experience. Having worked in the EPC environment at varying capacities, he brings valuable construction operations, project management and O&M skills to GSPPs ever-growing team and project portfolio. Prior to joining the solar industry, Dylan gained valuable experience in construction project management within different industries adding to his repertoire, mechanical aptitude, and versatility. He has a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from SUNY Environmental Science & Forestry in Syracuse, NY and values career development and fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment in the solar industry.

Capital Markets Associate

Sam Julien

Sam majored in Political Science History at The University of Connecticut and received his Master’s Degree in International Relations at Kings College in London. Prior to joining Green Street, Sam worked as a Sales Manager for a residential solar company. Here at Green Street, Sam oversees our commercial pipeline for pre-construction and post construction activity, coordinates with subcontractors on timelines and expectations, manages the interconnection process with the utilities and works with leadership to enact strategy for GSPP’s growing commercial solar business. He also collaborates cross-functionally with Accounting, Underwriting and Legal departments to execute capital markets

Director of Underwriting

Amanda Zurla

Amanda’s relationship with the solar industry started early in her career. Immediately following her graduation from SUNY New Paltz, she began working as a marketing representative for SunPower by Infinity Solar, where she oversaw the customer support department and implemented numerous marketing campaigns to increase brand exposure and lead flow for the residential sales team. Applying her experience in customer relations and lead generation, Amanda joined Green Street as the first member of the commercial division to help advance it. Within her first year alone, Amanda assisted in the development of a commercial pipeline of over 15 MW in direct sales and 70 MW in Community Distributed Generation projects throughout the State of New York, and continues to be a vital asset in the growth of all aspects of the commercial portfolio.

Underwriting Analyst

Elizabeth Price

Elizabeth Price has spent a majority of her life overseas, she formally held an internship with the U.S. State Department as a Management Intern at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala, Lumpur. In this position, Elizabeth began a series of cables discussing the palm oil industry in Malaysia and its adverse effects on the environment. Afterwards, Elizabeth decided to join a young, highly-dedicated team that provides solutions towards a more sustainable future through solar energy installations. Currently, Elizabeth is an underwriting analyst at Green Street Power Partners. In this role, Elizabeth oversees incoming projects, reviews legal documents, and coordinates with lenders on project closings. Elizabeth earned a Bachelor’s Degree in International Economics from Washington State University.

Diligence & Policy Analyst

Olivia Sproviero

Olivia graduated from Boston University in 2019 with a major in Earth and Environmental Sciences. During her senior year of college, Olivia interned at Terawatt Energy assisting in business development research. Shortly after graduating, Olivia joined Green Street Power Partners where she now aids in due diligence and policy research.

Director of Software

Dean Vonk

Dean earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a dual concentration in Management Information Science and Marketing from the University at Albany. Dean has over 20 years of professional experience in developing enterprise applications within the public and private sector. Organizations he has worked for are some of the biggest names in their respective industries such as JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS Group AG, The Executive Office of the President of the United States, etc. Dean brings a disciplined approach to using technology as a force multiplier and enabler of business. Resources can deliver work product faster, more accurately, easier, and in many cases deliver work product previously not possible. This has been achieved by building robust systems that integrate various business functions and implement innovative technology, data designs, and workflow processes. Dean is excited to join the GSPP family and bring his skillset into the renewable energy industry.

Director, Operations & Maintenance

Hugo Pedernera

Hugo has been involved in every aspect of photovoltaic systems including EPC, QA, and O&M for over 23 years. Hugo began in the solar industry as a Project Manager. Shortly following, he served as the Director of Engineering at Lanco Solar International. After this role, Hugo moved to Unique Technical Services, LLC where he held the role, VP of Renewable Energy Programs. Prior to joining GSPP, Hugo served as the Director of Operations & Maintenance at 174 Power Global NE and also served as a consultant. Hugo studied Electromechanical Engineering in Argentina, and Electrical Engineering at SUNY Farmingdale.

Senior Asset Manager

Jordan Chow

Jordan graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with a major in Environmental Science and a minor in Finance. After interning at an aviation focused investment bank and Green Street Power Partners, Jordan looked to pursue a career in renewable energy finance and joined the Green Street team shortly after graduation. Jordan helps oversee the operating portfolio’s technical and financial performance.

Director of Marketing & Customer Relations

Mia Behm

Prior to joining Green Street, Mia worked as the Marketing Manager at a SaaS startup located in Austin, Texas. She spent three years managing their marketing efforts and aided in growing the business $2mm in annual recurring revenue. In 2016, Mia moved to New York City and joined Green Street. She currently oversees all marketing, PR & community solar engagement efforts. Mia also assists in asset management and customer relations. Mia holds a BS in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin.