Mill Valley, Ca., USA - August 27, 2009, Mill Valley, Ca., USA - Solar Power Partners announced that Phil Henson has joined as vice president and chief financial officer. Hugh Kuhn, VP of Operations and Technology, has been named Senior VP and chief operating officer.
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Mr. Henson holds a BA in History from Colgate University, an MS in International Relations from Georgetown University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In his role as CFO, Mr. Henson will draw upon his 20 years of experience in energy and natural resources finance.
Mr. Henson, who has been a major participant in SPP transactions and investment partnerships since the beginning of the year, was previously the co-head of the Power and Utilities Group of XL Capital Assurance, Inc. (XLCA), a New York-based financial guaranty company. In that post, he started and headed a division that closed more than 100 transactions totaling more than $13 billion.
Prior to XLCA, Mr. Henson was a transaction and relationship manager in the project finance group at ING, and before that at Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), he was responsible for structuring and arranging syndicated project financings as well as managing M&A advisory work, multilateral co-financings, export financings and private placements of both debt and equity.
Mr. Kuhn holds a BS in Environmental Earth Sciences from Stanford University and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
In his new role as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Kuhn will continue to oversee SPP's technology, engineering and construction, operations, and the production assurance team. On the corporate side, he will direct human resource and IT functions, company policies, and performance management. Mr. Kuhn has more than 25 years of business and engineering experience.
Prior to joining SPP, he worked for Hewlett-Packard, where he held executive positions in Sales, Business Development, Venture Industry Partnering and Global Alliances. ■