Board of Directors

ACORE’s Board of Directors includes leaders from across the range of technologies and constituencies in the clean energy sector.

McKinney James and Associates
I remain grateful to the leadership of the organization, and to the board for centering equity as an essential component of our clean energy future.

Rose McKinney-James
McKinney-James & Associates

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Kevin Gresham

Board Chair & Senior Vice President, Government Relations & Regulatory Affairs, RWE Clean Energy

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Vikas Agrawal

Head of Alternative Energy Investing Group, Goldman Sachs

Adam Altenhofen

Senior Vice President, Environmental Finance Team, U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance

Michael Arndt

President, North America, Recurrent Energy

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Mit Buchanan

Managing Director, Energy Investments, J.P. Morgan

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Will Conkling

Director, Energy Commercial Structuring – Americas and EMEA Google Data Centers

Mona Dajani

Partner, Global Co-Chair of the Energy, Infrastructure and Hydrogen Departments, Co-Chair of Baker Botts Energy Sector

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William Demas

Senior Managing Director & Head of Americas, Green Investment Group, Macquarie Asset Management

Sandhya Ganapathy

Chief Executive Officer, EDP Renewables North America

Jade Garrett

Founder, Positive Deviancy

James Giamarino

Chief Commercial Officer, Ørsted Americas

David Giordano

Managing Director, Global Head – BlackRock Climate Infrastructure, BlackRock

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Kristal Hansley

Founder and CEO, WeSolar

Elizabeth Kaiga

Chief Commercial Officer for Energy Systems, DNV, North America

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Ja Kao

Founder, 42 Renewables

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Vishal Kapadia

Senior Vice President, Energy Transformation, Walmart

Shannon Kellogg

Vice President of Public Policy, Amazon

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Ray Long

President and CEO, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)

Robin Millican

Head of Strategic Initiatives and Integration, Breakthrough Energy

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Philip Musser

Vice President, Government Affairs, NextEra Energy

Jordan Newman

Managing Director, Renewable Energy & Environment Finance, Wells Fargo

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Urvi Parekh

Head of Renewable Energy, Meta

Martin J. Pasqualini

Managing Director, Partner, and Founding Member, CCA Group

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Gaurav Raniwala

Global Head of Renewable Energy, Financial Services, GE Vernova

Patrick Reiten

Senior Vice President, Public Policy, Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Steve Ryder

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Clearway Energy Group

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Himanshu Saxena

Chairman and CEO, Lotus Infrastructure Partners

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Meghan Schultz

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Invenergy

Puneet Verma

Vice President, Government Affairs, Avangrid

Sarah Webster

Senior Vice President, External Affairs & Market Development, Pattern Energy

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Raymond Wood

Managing Director, Head of Global Natural Resources – Energy, Mining, Power & Renewables, Bank of America

James Wright

Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Corporate Banking, CIBC

Laura Zapata

CEO, Clearloop

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