Drew Bond
Drew Bond is a passionate entrepreneur dedicated to accelerating energy innovations around the world. He has led multiple startups, including: a data analytics software company, a renewable chemicals and products company, and an online media platform company.
In addition, his experience includes: Serving as a Senior Advisor for President George W. Bush at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Vice President of Energy & Environment for Public Policy and Technology Commercialization at Battelle; Chief of Staff at The Heritage Foundation; Chief of Staff to Denise Bode at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; and Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Don Nickles.
Drew currently also serves as: Senior Fellow and Director of Energy Innovation Programs at the American Council for Capital Formation’s Center for Policy Research; and on the Board of Directors for Group NIRE and the Institute for Responsible Citizenship. Drew holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Oklahoma, where he met his wife. Together with their four children, they reside in the Northern Virginia area where they are active in their church and community, including as advocates for foster care.
Paul Burdick
Mr. Burdick has over 30 years of experience in the utility generation industry. Prior to joining PowerField Mr. Burdick was with Sun Edison where he originated and developed photovoltaic solar and wind projects, and led project acquisition due diligence. Prior to joining Sun Edison, he was a Project Director with AES Solar / Silver Ridge Power where he led teams developing greenfield solar projects and acquiring both operating facilities and development pipelines. Mr. Burdick also managed company joint ventures and the sale of project assets.
Prior to joining AES Solar, Mr. Burdick worked 24 years for the AES Corporation in various leadership positions, including Vice President of AES Wind and Project Director of various U.S. and overseas development projects. He has deep experience with a variety of generating technologies including coal, hydro, natural gas, pumped storage, wind and solar. He has been responsible for all aspects of power plant development including origination, financing, PPA negotiations, economic modeling, and land acquisition. transmission, interconnection, fuel and transportation contracting, permitting, land use, community relations, water rights, operations planning, and engineering and design.
Mr. Burdick earned bachelor’s degrees from Vassar College and the University of Michigan in physics and mechanical engineering and an MBA from Georgetown University.
David Flory
David has a background in cleantech private equity and renewable energy project finance. He has led project finance at two global solar companies where he raised approximately $1 billion from the capital markets, commercial banks, and tax equity investors, including $100 million from Google, to finance nearly 300 megawatts of solar in the U.S.
Prior to joining AES Solar, David held various leadership positions with the AES Corporation involving mergers and acquisitions, power plant development, asset management and project finance. He currently is the Chief Financial Officer at Local Roots Farms, a breakthrough indoor agriculture company in Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in English Literature from George Mason University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Keith Wright
Keith Wright is a global executive leader with more than 24 years of strategic, executive, and operational leadership of complex business and development efforts in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His experience includes governance leadership of one of East Africa's leading financial institutions, as president of a $150mm global enterprise with 3,000 staff in 26 countries, and as president and CEO of a leading strategic advisory which navigates clients to success in African markets.
Wright earned a M.Sc. degree in economic development from Eastern University and a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Mary Washington.
At Powerfield Energy Wright connects our unique solution to global sales and deployments across emerging markets.