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Our Team
John P. DeVillars, Managing Partner
John DeVillars is the Founder and Managing Partner of BlueWave Capital LLC. He was also the Founder and Managing Partner of BlueWave Strategies LLC, an affiliated consulting firm, which was sold to TRC Companies Inc. (NYSE: TRR) in 2010. In addition to managing BlueWave Capital, Mr. DeVillars now devotes a portion of his professional time to serving as a Senior Vice President at TRC, where he is helping to advance TRC's brownfields projects and rapidly growing energy practice. Mr. DeVillars previously served as the Executive Vice President of Brownfields Recovery Corporation, a Boston-based real estate investment and development company that focuses on environmentally impaired properties. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. DeVillars was the New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under his leadership, EPA New England was recognized as a national leader in smart growth, regulatory reform, and brownfields development, winning more awards for successful reform than any other EPA office. Earlier in his career, Mr. DeVillars served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Chief of Operations for Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, and Director of the Environmental Services Group for Coopers & Lybrand. He was also a Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continues to lecture at MIT, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. He has received numerous awards for his environmental service, including the President's Award of the Nature Conservancy, given annually for national leadership in environmental affairs. Mr. DeVillars serves on the Board of Directors of Clean Harbors, Inc., NextStep Living, Inc., and several environmental and energy NGOs including, The New England Clean Energy Council, The Walden Woods Project, the Environmental Business Council of New England and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. He also co-chairs the Advisory Board of Environment Northeast (ENE), a leading advocacy group on the forefront of efforts to combat global climate change with solutions that promote clean energy, energy efficiency, and healthy forests. Mr. DeVillars was a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's Energy and Environment Transition Working Group and Co-Chair of the New England Clean Energy Council’s Policy Committee. He holds an MPA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Eric's primary focus is on shaping and leading the execution of BlueWave Capital's business strategies and development program across its various geographic target markets and solar incentive jurisdiction and manages BlueWave's relationships with its strategic investment partners. Mr. Graber-Lopez also advises early stage clean energy companies and entrepreneurs in the areas of finance, strategy, due diligence and market analysis as part of BlueWave Capital's advisory services offering. Prior to joining BlueWave, Mr. Graber-Lopez served as Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst on the Specialty Equity Growth Team at Putnam Investments, where he helped manage $8B in U.S. mid- and large-cap growth equity portfolios. At Putnam, he focused on the energy, alternative energy, materials, and utilities sectors and was responsible for his team's investments in those sectors in both public and private markets. Mr. Graber-Lopez started as a Senior Equity Analyst within Putnam's Global Equity Research Group and was a member of the Natural Resources and Utilities fund teams. During his years on the sell-side, Mr. Graber-Lopez focused on the Energy and Utilities industries and was ranked by several leading industry surveys as being among the top analysts in his field. Mr. Graber-Lopez has extensive experience in firm valuation, mergers and acquisitions advisory services, private equity transactions, and portfolio management. Mr. Graber-Lopez holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a BA from Hampshire College.
Elizabeth Carroll is a Founder of and an Advisor to BlueWave Capital and was a Founder and Partner of BlueWave Strategies LLC, its affiliated consulting firm. Ms. Carroll has more than 15 years of experience working with real estate developers, businesses, and government agencies on the design, implementation and evaluation of environmental initiatives and real estate development projects. For the past 10 years she has focused largely on the redevelopment of brownfields sites and brings to her projects strong management skills, a deep understanding of environmental and land use policies, and an excellent track record in sourcing public grants and private capital. Prior to BlueWave, Ms. Carroll worked as the Director of Business Development for Brownfields Recovery Corporation and as a Senior Consultant at Eastern Research Group and Booz?Allen and Hamilton. At Booz·Allen, she supported U.S. EPA in the initial development and implementation of its Brownfields Initiative. As a graduate student, Ms. Carroll co-founded a small niche consulting firm, Bennett Brownfields Group, Inc. that specialized in providing research, communications, and project implementation support for public and private organizations engaged in brownfields redevelopment. She also served as intern in EPA's Brownfields Office, working directly with the Assistant Administrator and his staff to help develop solutions to emerging policy issues. Early in her career, she held research positions at the President's Council for Environmental Quality and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Carroll holds an MEM from Yale University and BA from The University of Virginia. She is Chair of the Board of Environment Northeast and serves on the Corporation of The Winsor School in Boston.
Amy Rosmarin is a focused on Business Development for BlueWave Capital in the Northeast United States. Ms. Rosmarin also works with Generation Renewables Finance, a solar development company. Ms. Rosmarin is a Founder and Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Northern Westchester Energy Action Consortium, a consortium of 14 towns that came together to develop and implement regional energy solutions. With NWEAC, Ms. Rosmarin is developing a regional municipally-owned microgrid, a PACE and NYSERDA financed home energy efficiency upgrade program, a regional sustainability conference and the North Salem Climate Action Plan. Ms. Rosmarin is a Councilwoman on the North Salem Town Board and leads the North Salem Energy Advisory Panel. Additionally, Ms. Rosmarin has been active on a range of land preservation and smart land use boards and committees including the North Salem Open Space Committee (Chair), Conservation Advisory Council and Land Preservation Alliance, and the Northern Westchester Biotic Corridor. Prior to working in the energy field, Ms. Rosmarin was a management consultant with DPM Worldwide focusing on market strategy and new business development. Ms. Rosmarin holds an MBA from Yale University's School of Management and a BA from Middlebury College.
Gregory Carey is a consultant to BlueWave Capital LLC. He advises real estate and renewable energy development companies in the areas of site acquisitions and development, project permitting and project management. Mr. Carey currently is assisting a wind energy client with developing a 30 MW utility scale project in western Massachusetts. He is also involved in permitting a 1 MW solar PV facility on a closed landfill in southeastern Massachusetts. Mr. Carey's previous experience includes managing the redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in Everett, Massachusetts and Woodhaven, Michigan, into retail power center projects totaling 1.3 M square feet. Prior to establishing his consulting business in 2008, Mr. Carey worked for eight years as a Vice President at Conroy Development Corporation, where he managed the permitting and redevelopment of a 32-acre landfill site in Stoughton, Massachusetts, including the permitting and development of a $12 M Solid Waste Handling and Recycling Facility. He is the former Chairman of the Town of Holliston Zoning Board of Appeals and is currently a member of Holliston's Affordable Housing Trust Fund Board of Trustees. Mr. Carey is a graduate of Assumption College in Worcester.
Jonathan Klavens is principal of Klavens Law Group, P.C. (www.klavenslawgroup.com) and in that capacity serves as lead outside counsel to BlueWave Capital LLC. Mr. Klavens focuses on providing start-up, outside general counsel, transactional, project development and energy regulatory services to companies, investors, public entities and nonprofits in the clean energy and clean technology areas. In the area of renewable energy project development, he provides assistance to both private and public parties on permitting, financing, commercial and regulatory matters, including negotiation of power purchase agreements, net metering credit purchase agreements and REC purchase agreements. Mr. Klavens is recognized as an authority on and active participant in the development and interpretation of a wide range of regulations and policies governing renewable energy development in Massachusetts including net metering, S-RECs, interconnection standards, back-up rates, PACE financing and public procurement. He has exposure to a wide range of clean energy technologies, including wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, district steam and biomass combustion, as well as a broad range of clean energy services, including third-party solar provider services, carbon offset registration and risk management services, and REC brokerage services.
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