PRESIDENT & CEO

Patrick actively leads the management and development of NRS’ utility scale wind and solar projects, representing over 3,000 MW of renewable development projects in twelve states. He is a graduate of Bemidji State University and grew up in Luverne, Minnesota.  Patrick has extensive experience in rural business development issues, and cultivates and maintains strong relations with financiers, landowners and investors.

Prior to getting into the wind business in 2005, his career included project development and financing work with private companies such as Minnesota Corn Processors, Cenex Harvest States, United Properties, U.S. Bank, SUPERVALU, HOM Furniture and Cirrus Aircraft  As a serial entrepreneur, Patrick has organized and successfully led several business ventures including Business Development Services, Inc.; Tribute Capital, LLC; National Wind, LLC; and National Renewable Solutions, LLC in 2011.

Patrick believes strongly that it is our personal values of trust, persistence, compassion and integrity that successfully guide our business and personal lives.

CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

With a background in Community and Real Estate Development, Jesse has long worked initiatives with medium-term development cycles, with “people” and leveraging energy of the “collective” at the heart of success. Since beginning work in the renewables industry in 2008, Jesse has taken the “working-up-the-ranks” path, leading each of the development disciplines from site prospecting and land acquisition through off-take and EPC contracting in greenfield and mid-stage acquisition environments within the Utility-Scale Renewables space, personally realizing over 1GW of projects either operating or fully contracted. Jesse now leads National Renewable Solutions development team with a focus on near-term performance and forward strategy.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

As its primary risk management and contracting officer, Lindsey oversees the operating activities for all of NRS’s projects, as well as the operations of the company.  During her energy career, she has worked as a Project Developer, Title Specialist and as an Investor Relations officer.  She has specific expertise in title and real estate geared toward the renewable energy industry, and manages the company’s site acquisition efforts, keeping 100% of these efforts in-house. She’s worked with rural landowners signing leases in seven states representing over 250,000 acres (and counting).

Lindsey has a BS from Montana State University – Bozeman.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Ryan has 15+ years in renewable energy corporate and project finance experience in ownership and management positions in investment banking and consulting.  As CFO of National Renewable Solutions, Ryan leads all financial activities of the company with a focus on development, finance and M&A activities of the NRS portfolio consisting of over 3G of renewable energy development assets.

Prior to joining NRS, Ryan spent 10+ years in investment banking raising debt and equity capital for numerous corporate financings and energy projects, including wind energy, ethanol, and biodiesel projects, most recently as a Principal of BrokerBank Securities.

Ryan graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Finance from the Isenberg School of Business at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and has held the FINRA series 7, 63 and 79 representative securities licenses and the series 24 general principal securities license.

VP - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

With a background in trading, wholesale power marketing and portfolio optimization, Chase has spent the last 13 years working in the energy and utility industry. Chase successfully lead a trading team and managed a portfolio with over 1000 MW of renewable generation that included wind, solar, batteries and geothermal. Chase has extensive experience in the WECC and is passionate about the future of the energy industry as it transitions to a cleaner, more efficient mix of resources.

Chase attended the University of New Mexico and Western Governors University where he earned a BS in Business Management with a focus in Economics.

VP - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

After a successful 26-year career as an US Army Officer, Mark rebranded himself in retirement and continues his success in the utility industry.   Mark has vast experience in the Kansas utility market with Westar Energy, the Board of Public Utilities, and as a consultant.  Before taking on the role in Business Development, Mark served as the Liaison Representative with NRS developing the 200MW Expedition Wind Farm in Central Kansas.

Mark has an MBA from Webster University and a BS from Arizona State University.

DIRECTOR OF SOLAR DEVELOPMENT

Brad manages the solar development pipeline at NRS, leading projects from origination through construction.  Prior to joining NRS, he managed a robust portfolio of utility-scale solar projects over eight years as Project Developer for Ecos Energy.  Brad’s experience covers twenty-two constructed solar facilities in locations on the west coast, east coast, and in-between.  Brad is an alumni of the University of Minnesota.

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

Evan is responsible for leading the sourcing, structuring, and execution of NRS’s tax equity, project financing, and construction lending solutions, in addition to increasing and optimizing NRS’s portfolio of wind, solar, and storage projects through sales and acquisitions.

With more than a decade of experience, Evan has held various finance roles in the renewable energy industry, working on projects both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining NRS, Evan held positions at Ørsted, E.On (now RWE), NRG Energy, Infigen (now Leeward Renewables), and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management, with a focus in Finance, from Purdue University.

GENERAL COUNSEL

Ben was previously a business transactions attorney at Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A., specializing in mergers & acquisitions, corporate law, and commercial finance. Ben has worked together with the NRS team as outside counsel on many of its notable transactions over the years. He is thrilled to join the team full-time and will be working from the Minnetonka office.

Ben received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and his MBA from the Carlson School of Management. He lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with his wife and three children, the youngest of which arrived this January.

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

With almost 20 years of experience in the renewable energy industry, Rob is the Technical Director for NRS.

Throughout his career, Rob has driven nearly every phase of a wind development project from site prospecting, land leasing and permitting, through project design, contracting and construction. Most recently Rob was a project manager for repower and greenfield construction projects for Pattern Energy. Prior to that he managed the planning of wind, solar and transmission projects both for Pattern and as a consultant.

Rob is a licensed Professional Engineer in several states. He holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Lehigh University and resides in San Diego, CA.

SENIOR PROJECT DEVELOPER

Roger “Hal” Halbakken specializes in the development of solar, storage, and solar plus storage projects. Prior to joining NRS, he worked as a project director in the Renewable Energy Department at NV Energy, performing analysis on and participating in the origination and development of renewable assets. Hal’s previous experience includes managing the portfolio analytics, day-ahead and real time modeling teams on the trading floor at NV Energy as well as operating and leading operations at various power generation facilities throughout Northern California and Nevada.

Hal has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from CSU, Sacramento.

SENIOR PROJECT DEVELOPER

Conner works with the wind and solar development team at NRS to assist with GIS mapping, support landowner and community relations, and communicate with county officials for permitting regulations. He has experience with multiple GIS, wind resource data, and wind flow mapping software.

Conner has a degree in Wind Energy from Texas Tech University.

SENIOR PROJECT DEVELOPER

Alex is responsible for guiding utility scale wind projects from early stage development, through permitting. Alex brings over two years of experience developing wind in Illinois for Apex Clean Energy. Prior to that, Alex volunteered for an NGO in Israel and worked for a nonprofit in Illinois. Working to build the next generation of renewable facilities is now his preferred way to help advance sustainable development in communities.

Alex has a B.A. from St. John’s University and M.P.P from University of Minnesota.

REAL ESTATE & TITLE PARALEGAL

Michelle has experience in Telecommunication, Title, and Renewable Energy, which is where her passion lies. Michelle enjoys the fast-paced environment of managing and tracking the high volume of documents required in wind and solar projects. She loves to work directly with land developers, landowners, legal representatives, other energy team members, title companies, and surveyors. Her expertise is curative documentation, reviewing title commitments and proformas, and surveys. Michelle plans to utilize her extensive experience in drafting and negotiating lease agreements, memorandums, easements, rights-of-way, tenant agreements, amendments, estoppels, SNDA’s to NRS and its team.

Michelle is a graduate from Minnesota School of Business from the Minneapolis Campus with a Legal Secretary Diploma and continued her paralegal studies at their Richfield campus.

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

PERMITTING SPECIALIST

Mauli strengthens the NRS Team with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of Minnesota. She focuses on coordinating the permitting process and schedules for all of the company projects. This includes ensuring proper environmental studies have been completed, attending public hearings for projects, and understanding/implementing local regulations for each project community. She has previous experience in environmental work from interning at Westwood Professional Services.

ASSOCIATE DEVELOPER

Daniel assists the Development Team on the advancement of all development-phase wind, solar, and storage projects. He brings a background of CAD design and evaluation experience and over two years of handling customer relations from his time in retail and as a service technician. He also served as the Team Manager for his Senior Design team on a project to automate the welding process for a manufacturing company.

Daniel graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and B.A. in English.

CONTROLLER

Scott maintains financial books and records for NRS and its affiliate companies, cash flow management, financial reporting, assisting in tax and audit preparations, and office management duties as needed. Prior to joining NRS, he has worked in public accounting for two years at Clifton Larson Allen as an auditor in the healthcare industry. After that he worked at UCare for 4 years as a senior accountant.

Scott attended undergrad (2009-2013) at the University of St. Thomas and received his degree in Accounting. He also went back to get his masters in accounting the following year (2014).

HR & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Jacy lends her support for all NRS day-to-day office management and oversees all of the company’s HR and communications needs, including social media and news feeds. She may also be the one to greet you on the phone when you call!

LOCAL PROJECT LIAISON

Walter (Walt) joins the NRS team as its Local Project Liaison. A 23-year veteran peace officer/criminal investigator, who then spent the last 15 years as a conductor for Class 1 railroad hauling coal, he was eager to make his move to the renewable energy sector.

As an NRS project landowner himself and Northeastern Colorado native, he was attracted to NRS and their open and transparent dialogue with landowners and the public. He is excited to work with his neighbors to help bring renewable energy to his community and beyond.

OFFICE MANAGER

Khulud joins NRS as the Office Manager where she is focusing on organizing office operations, designing processes that drive effectiveness and optimizing resources. Her background in healthcare administration along with her upbeat attitude is an advantage to the NRS team.

She earned her Bachelors of Science from the University of Minnesota in Family Social Science and minored in Youth Studies. She lives in South Minneapolis with their partner of 5 years. When she’s not managing office operations, you can find her enjoying musicals, knitting, or reading.

OPERATIONS ANALYST

Caroline brings 8+ years of marketing and operations experience to her role as Operations Analyst at NRS. Prior to this role, she worked in the healthcare industry and was most recently a consultant at Optum (UHG). Her past projects focused on reporting, process improvement and root cause analysis work and she looks forward to bringing this skillset to her role at NRS.

Caroline holds a BS in Global Public Health from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. She lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota with her husband and young son.