William Kappaz currently serves as the Chairman of K&M Advisors. Mr. Kappaz is also the Chairman and CEO of The Dorado Group—the owner of K&M Advisors. Mr. Kappaz was previously the President and COO of K&M, where he advised on the structuring and development of numerous infrastructure projects around the world including the first ever private power projects in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, and Vietnam. In addition to his advisory work, Mr. Kappaz has structured, negotiated and invested in numerous power purchase agreements, fuel supply agreements, non-recourse project financed credit facilities, EPC contracts, O&M agreements, and project insurance agreements for more than US$10 billion in projects globally. Mr. Kappaz has developed and published new rules and regulations governing various countries’ energy sectors, unbundled vertically integrated state-owned utilities, and established wholesale electricity markets. His acquisition and financial turnaround of the Termovalle Power Project in Colombia has become a leading example of distressed investing, and its success created the platform for The Dorado Group. He received his B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland.

Mr. Guzman has over 23 years of experience in power and LNG projects. Mr. Guzman’s power experience includes advising government and private clients on the development of new privately-financed power generation projects, or on concessioning or acquiring existing assets. For private clients—including sponsors, private equity investors and lenders—he has advised on origination, due diligence, and valuation of new or existing power projects. His LNG experience includes advising on the development of LNG to power projects, including identifying and analyzing technical options for importing LNG, evaluating the business case of LNG generated power relative to other fuels, analyzing transaction structures for the development of an LNG to power project, and competitive procurement of LNG supply. Mr. Guzman has worked on a small, medium and large scale LNG to power projects, including projects that use offshore and onshore import terminals, as well as LNG import solutions based on LNG ISO containers. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in civil engineering and a Master’s in business and finance from the London Business School.

Mr. Guzman is reachable at aguzman@km-advisorsllc.com

Dr. Juan Jose Daboub, PhD, serves as a Director at K&M Advisors and the Vice Chairman at The Dorado Group. Dr. Daboub co-owns businesses in Central America and serves on the Board of Directors of several companies in the USA, Latin America, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe. He is the founding CEO of The Daboub Partnership and the Global Adaptation Institute. As Managing Director of the World Bank, from 2006 to 2010, Dr. Daboub oversaw operations in 110 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America and was responsible for the oversight of the Human and Sustainable Development Networks, the Information Systems Group, the World Bank Institute, the Department of Institutional Integrity and the Arab World Initiative. From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Daboub served concurrently as El Salvador’s Minister of Finance and as Chief of Staff to President Flores. In these high profile dual roles, Dr. Daboub helped to navigate his native country through several regional economic challenges including securing and sustaining El Salvador’s investment grade rating, “dollarizing” the economy, and completing a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. He was President of the Electric Distribution Companies (1994-1996) and of ANTEL (1996-1998), the state-owned telecommunications company of El Salvador, which he re-structured and privatized through a competitive and transparent process that also de-monopolized that strategic sector. Dr. Daboub holds a Bachelors of Science, Masters of Science and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is married with four children.

Mr. Fairbanks has over 24 years of experience providing commercial advisory and project finance services for power projects. He has led procurement and transaction advisory teams for 8 power projects, all of which reached financial close, totaling US$4 billion in new investment. He has also served as a project finance advisor for power projects and pioneered innovative financial arrangements to assist in raising US$2 billion in non-recourse debt and equity. Mr. Fairbanks also has significant experience performing due diligence and supporting project development activities for international power generation projects on behalf of private investors. He is an expert in reviewing commercial contracts and analyzing power markets, including forecasting demand, dispatch, and pricing. For example, Mr. Fairbanks led a multinational team to conduct due diligence for a US$138 million bid for the acquisition of hydropower facilities in Peru totaling 200 MW of capacity, and he has performed detailed hydrology modeling to assess the market for cross-border energy trading between Chile and Peru. In addition to his work on hydropower projects, Mr. Fairbanks played a major role in due diligence power generation transactions in Jamaica, Chile, Honduras, and India. In these projects, Mr. Fairbanks assessed key project agreements (including PPAs), analyzed the local power demand and competing supply options, forecasted PPA tariffs and spot market pricing, estimated future sales and operating costs, and evaluated project risks and risk mitigation options. Mr. Fairbanks holds a B.S. in Business Economics from Brown University.

Mr. Golbin has over 35 years of experience in the power industry in development, engineering, design, and construction of gas, coal, and oil fired power plants, consulting, project management and project development. His work experience includes working on power projects in USA, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Belarus, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, South Africa, Colombia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Georgia, Bulgaria, and many others. Mr. Golbin has advised commercial and multilateral lending institutions on power project development, preparation of requests for proposal and development of private power projects in developing countries. He has participated in preparation of feasibility studies, conducting site selection, size optimization, fuel selection and strategic options for a variety of power projects including leading edge clean coal technologies. He has developed energy efficiency programs, performed due diligence reviews, contract analysis, economic and financial modeling, tariff calculations, power plant environmental impact analysis and mitigation, drafting and negotiating power purchase agreements and fuel supply agreements, development and design of cogeneration systems and conceptual and detailed design of different power plant systems and equipment. Mr. Golbin holds MS Degree from Belarusian Polytech University and is a registered professional engineer in Maryland.

Mr. Golbin is reachable at lgolbin@km-advisorsllc.com

Mr. Derek Martin has over 20 years of experience leading the development and financing of international independent power projects and advising clients with advice and execution support for electric sector transactions. He has managed and closed all aspects of IPP development and led negotiations for all major power project contracts under limited and non-recourse finance structures. Mr. Martin has conducted transaction analysis and execution as both a corporate executive and external advisor for international energy companies regarding project developments and acquisitions.

Prior to joining K&M Advisors, Mr. Martin was co-founder and Managing Director of Moray Development and worked as an executive for multinational power companies. Mr. Martin’s experiences there included managing of over $5b in projects at various stages of development, closing of $1.4b in financings, and negotiating more than 1GW of long-term PPAs. Mr. Martin holds a BA in International Relations from Tulane University, an MBA from George Washington University School of Business and Public Management, and a law degree from George Washington University Law School.

Mr. Martin is available at dmartin@km-advisorsllc.com

Mr. Janson is an economist and financial specialist with more than 25 years of experience advising governments, financial institutions, and private investors on strategies for developing, financing, and regulating infrastructure. He focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, where he has advised clients in the energy and water sectors in Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Mr. Janson has been an expert witness on quantum in international arbitrations, a lead author on the Inter-American Development Bank’s “Natural Gas in the Caribbean—Feasibility Studies” (2015) and the World Bank’s “Water Utility Turnaround Framework: A Guide for Improving Performance” (2018), and a frequent speaker at international infrastructure conferences, including at the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum and Platts’ Caribbean and LNG conferences. Mr. Janson has a graduate degree in International Finance and an undergraduate degree in International Economic Theory and Policy, both from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Born and raised in Panama, Mr. Janson is a native Spanish and English speaker, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and French. At K&M Advisors, Mr. Janson is responsible for policy and regulation in the energy sector, as well as for the firm’s work on the water and sanitation sector. He is reachable at njanson@km-advisorsllc.com

Mr. Kappaz leads K&M Advisors’ office in Colombia. He is an expert in project management and quality control. Previously, he was responsible for day-to-day management of three major power projects in Colombia developed, constructed, owned and operated by a former K&M affiliated company. Moreover, he managed the Colombia side of activities leading to financial close of those transactions, provided logistical support for construction activities, served as in-country liaison during start up and operation, and provided oversight for the operation and management contracts. In addition, Mr. Kappaz served as legal representative to KMTel, assisting the company to develop a new private digital telecommunications system in Cartagena. Prior to joining K&M, he was a senior corporate executive, private practice attorney, independent businessman and professor. J.D., Law, University of Cartagena.

Mr. Garcia has over 28 years of experience in the power generation industry. Mr. Garcia began his career working for several utilities and private power plants of various technologies. He progressed from a field operations and maintenance engineer to managerial and supervisory roles in operations, technology/environment, and generation. Prior to joining K&M, Mr. Garcia worked for one of the top OEMs and global suppliers of gas turbines and other power generation equipment, where he managed the implementation, sales, and contract negotiation of multi-million-dollar long term service agreements (LTSA’s). His work experience includes power plant projects development, O&M, due diligence, consulting, and contract negotiations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain and the USA. He is familiar with various types of power plant contracts (PPA, LTSA, O&M, GSA, EPC), energy market fundamentals, and relevant technical and environmental regulations. In addition to his extensive training in power plant O&M and business management education, Mr. Garcia holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in surface mining projects from Universidad del Norte, a post-graduate production management specialist degree from Universidad ICESI, and a commercial contracts management master’s certificate from Villanova University. He is a native Spanish speaker, fluent in English, and fair in Portuguese. Mr. Garcia is reachable at igarcia@km-advisorsllc.com.