Meet the Investment Team

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Jim Wiest - Managing DirectorJim assisted with the development and implementation of Camco’s expansion into North America in 2007. He is currently responsible for Camco’s North American overall business strategy and oversees all North American operations.Jim has over 20 years of transactional experience in the finance sector with a focus on mergers, acquisitions and institutional development financing. Prior to joining Camco, Jim was the Founder and Managing Director of an investment banking company focused on securing equity and debt financing for large scale commercial real estate development ventures and renewable energy projects.Jim received his accounting degree from Colorado State University and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant, with his last accounting position as a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, LLP.
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Andrew Jackura - Senior Vice President, Business DevelopmentAndrew has over 28 years of professional experience improving the efficiency and environmental performance of large industrial facilities with 17 years in the building materials industry. He served as the VP of Environmental Affairs, VP of Process Technology and Energy, Regional VP of Manufacturing for 5 cement plants and Director of Reliability and Engineering for CEMEX and Southdown. Andrew has also worked for ALCOA, where he served as Chief Engineer for a 3-unit 400 MW lignite-fired power plant and also as head of maintenance operations for a 4-station hydro-electric utility. His work includes projects for indirect firing coal and pet-coke, oxygen-enriched combustion and the application of computational fluid dynamics and physical modeling to solve aerodynamic, mixing and combustion problems. His project work includes waste heat co-generation, SNCR systems, fuel preparation plants, fire suppression systems, burner replacement and numerous kiln and mill expansion projects. He has developed low-carbon energy strategies and technology evolution plans for large, energy-intensive manufacturing systems. Andrew also has extensive reliability engineering and maintenance management experience and has performed root cause failure investigations on turbines, generators, boilers, gear drives, compressors, kilns, mills and crushers. Andrew holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also one of the authors of The Cement Plant Operations Handbook - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th editions.
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Andy Dvoracek - Vice President, Biogas DevelopmentAndy specializes in the origination and development of biogas projects. He has a wide range of experience in agricultural/industrial wastewater, methane avoidance based renewable energy, coalmine methane, biogas to pipeline quality gas conditioning and energy efficiency projects. Andy also has extensive international knowledge of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), global voluntary carbon markets and the North American carbon markets. Andy has worked in plant operations, project development, due diligence, emission trading and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Camco, he worked as the Director at Element Markets, LLC where he managed North American biogas/emissions origination and the operations at the Huckabay Ridge biogas plant, the largest biogas to pipeline quality gas project in North America. As Sr. Client Manager at EcoSecurities, Andy managed both domestic and international emission reduction projects. He has also worked within Swiss Re’s greenhouse gas/renewable markets division and as a consultant for the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Environmental Science from Saint John’s University (MN) and a Masters of Public Administration in Environmental Policy and Management from Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
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Glen Lindgren – Vice President of Business OperationsGlen has expertise in technical, financial and regulatory assessments of renewable energy and GHG emissions reduction projects. He specializes in project finance and financial modeling for projects and has extensive experience in bringing together technical resources, valuation of environmental attributes and equity/debt financing to develop environmental projects. He has also performed numerous market and strategy assessments involving the use of environmental instruments, such as carbon credits and renewable energy credits.Prior to joining Camco, Glen was Vice President for Environmental Markets at World Energy (TSX:XWE). There he was instrumental in evolving the company’s existing energy exchange business to trade emissions credits and other environmental commodities. He also ran some of the first online auction-based deals for these new commodities. Glen holds an MBA from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. More Information on our North American Key Personnel