BOULDER, CO — (Marketwired) — 09/09/13 — juwi Wind, LLC is pleased to add Michael Hammond to the leadership team as Chief Financial Officer.
CEO Michael Rucker stated, “Michael–s additional leadership to the juwi team in the integral role of financial management will support our growth in the North American market. His vast experience and credibility in our industry is unsurpassed.”
A long time consultant in the renewable energy industry, Hammond brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience including valuations, business plan development, acquisition support, project sales, financial modeling, transaction structuring and financing.
Before becoming one of the industry–s top consultants, Hammond served as Senior Vice President of Project Finance at Airtricity. Hammond was brought on as one of Airtricity–s initial hires in the United States and helped grow the company into a $1.4 billion enterprise that was purchased by the German utility E.ON in less than four years.
Hammond–s career has also seen posts at GE Energy Financial Services and Heller Financial, Inc. in the energy sector and four years at State Street Boston Capital Corporation. He started his career in public accounting at Coopers & Lybrand.
Stated Hammond, “juwi–s previous experience, promising future in the renewable energy industry and driving philosophy made it a very attractive decision and challenging next step in my career. Their leadership team and staff are an impressive group of colleagues to work with.”
juwi Wind, LLC is a subsidiary of the juwi Group, a major international developer of renewable energy projects. juwi Group has been designing, building and operating plants that harness renewable energy since 1996, and to date juwi Group has installed approximately 700 wind turbines worldwide at 100 sites, producing a total output of approximately 1400MW. juwi Wind, LLC is based in Boulder, Colorado.
Ben Kelahan
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