STAFF
The management team of New Energy Capital has a total of more than 40 years of experience in founding and managing renewable energy companies, evaluating energy markets and projects, consulting in all sectors of the energy marketplace, developing domestic and international power generation facilities, financing energy projects, investing in renewable energy and distributed generation technologies, and creating and managing the public policies that currently shape the landscape for the renewable energy and distributed generation marketplace.

Scott Brown, CEO, has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial management experience leading start-up service and energy companies.  After consulting with Bain & Company in the early 1980s, he joined the founding management team of First Solar in 1988, one of the first thin film photovoltaic manufacturers in the U.S.  He left First Solar in 1989 to become President and CEO of Glasstech Solar, Inc, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment for the photovoltaic industry.  Previously, Mr. Brown had been a consultant to Whitney & Co., a $4 billion private equity company, evaluating investments in renewable energy markets, including a photovoltaic industry component manufacturer and a wind energy finance start-up.  Mr. Brown is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Adam Bernstein, Director, brings significant industry experience to his responsibilities for financial structuring, analysis, and investment evaluation of opportunities in wind, solar, and bio-fuels. Most recently, Adam was a Senior Financial Analyst at FPL Energy, the largest wind energy developer and operator in the U.S. At FPL, he completed valuation and project finance analysis on over 2,000 megawatts of proposed greenfield and M&A wind assets, specializing in merchant power markets. Before FPL, Adam spent 4 years with J.P. Morgan Securities researching and executing equity, fixed income, and derivative transactions. Adam began his career at GE Capital Commercial Finance analyzing asset-based loans and securitizations. Adam received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth where he graduated as a Tuck Scholar and interned on Goldman Sachs’ energy and commodities trading desk. He completed his BBA at Emory University (Finance, History). Adam is a CFA charterholder and member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Christopher Newton, Corporate Controller, joined New Energy Capital in July 2006. Before joining NEC, Mr. Newton was Vice President of Finance and Administration for Tally Systems Corporation. While at Tally he contributed to a successful equity transaction, selling the company to Novell in 2005. Mr. Newton has also been with two start-up companies in finance and administration which became publicly traded companies with initial public offerings: Cytyc Corporation in 1996 and NaviSite, Inc. in 1999. Prior to 1996, Mr. Newton held various finance positions at Johnson & Johnson during his 14 year tenure. He began his career with KPMG in New York City where he obtained his CPA. Mr. Newton obtained his MBA from Rutgers and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross.