Enchanted Rock Leadership

Thomas McAndrew founded Enchanted Rock in 2006. McAndrew brings over 34 years of experience in energy asset management ranging from large, complex nuclear plants to small distributed generation. McAndrew’s introduction to energy was in engineering and operations on two US Navy nuclear power surface ships, the USS Eisenhower and USS South Carolina. He spent six years operating and maintaining nuclear propulsion plants and qualified as a Naval Nuclear Chief Engineer for the Nimitz Class aircraft carrier. After his time in the US Navy, McAndrew worked as a maintenance support engineer for the Southern Company at their Plant Farley nuclear business, where the cost of loss of electricity to critical loads is extremely high. He then shifted to the financial side of energy, helping several energy merchants build highly profitable trade floors. At his last merchant energy company, Calpine, McAndrew also supervised the commercial startup of many new natural gas combined cycle power plants. When founding Enchanted Rock, McAndrew focused on technologies at or close to the point of final electric consumption that increase reliability, decrease cost, and decrease carbon footprint. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M, Masters Equivalent in Nuclear Power Operations from the US Navy, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Accomplished executive, entrepreneur, board member and investor with a successful career in the US and globally. Andrejka has experience in building and leading public organizations and private equity backed companies (growth and venture stages) and her industry expertise spans multiple verticals of the infrastructure and energy industries including midstream, transition energy / cleantech, oil and gas, renewables and conventional power. As an entrepreneur, Andrejka was a part of the management team of PennTex Midstream (NASDAQ: PTXP), which started the company in partnership with a leading energy private equity manager, took it public in 2015 and ultimately successfully exited via a sale to a large strategic player. She also co-founded Core Midstream where she leveraged her strategic and financial acumen to partner with a wide variety of investors in assessment of deals across the infrastructure sector. As an executive, Andrejka has had an impact in several organizations by steering them through pivotal growth stages and successfully leading capital raising and strategy formulation efforts, such as IPO preparation/readiness, leading growth equity recapitalization or exits.Previously in her career Andrejka held investment roles at The Blackstone Group and at Mubadala Development Company / Masdar Clean Energy, a ~$250B Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. She was also an investment banker at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, advising clients in strategic and capital market transactions.Andrejka is an angel investor and has utilized her experience to help entrepreneurs in building their own companies. She is also an active board member and advisor including her involvement across multiple initiatives with her alma mater, Harvard College. She is also a recipient of numerous industry awards. On a personal side, Andrejka completed the Marathon des Sables, a ~200 miles ultra marathon race across the Sahara Desert, biked over 600 miles across Tibet and Nepal to the Mt. Everest Base Camp and volunteered in orphanages and construction projects in Kenya, Chile, Nepal and Egypt. She has lived, worked and studied across five continents and speaks five languages.

Ian Blakely joined Enchanted Rock in 2015 and brings over 20 years of experience in technology evaluation and strategy with 18 years in the energy industry. Prior to working at Enchanted Rock, Blakely held positions in a number of venture capital and private equity funds focused on the energy industry. As CTO, Blakely is responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and execution of corporate strategy on new technologies and associated products. As EVP of Asset Management, Blakely represents the investors in Enchanted Rock’s project companies to ensure that assets are built, operated and maintained to achieve the highest long-term value.

Blakely received a Master’s in Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University.

Thais Grossi joined the Enchanted Rock team in 2016, bringing management and execution expertise from manufacturing operations of critical service sub-sea equipment in the oil and gas industry. Grossi is responsible for Enchanted Rock’s operation including Engineering, Procurement and Construction of the company’s project portfolio.

Grossi received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Rio de Janeiro State University.

Accomplished energy executive in clean tech, IT, and services business models at both start-up and large company scale. Expertise in leadership, strategy, M&A, go-to-market, and execution. Entrepreneurial bias.

Dynamic, results-oriented technology executive with extensive global leadership expertise and demonstrated ability motivating teams to exceed goals. Diverse business lifecycle experience - grown sustaining operations, incubated startups, and turned-around under-performing organizations. Domain expertise and perspective comes from proficiency in:- Sales strategy: Direct & Channel | Data-driven pipeline management | Emotional Intelligence- P&L management with KPI mindset. | Performance Management | Entrepreneurial with global scale- M&A acquisition & integration | Multi-channel marketing | Talent acquisition & retention- Collaborative with Board of Directors. | Culture of accountability | Incentive Compensation- Forecast accuracy / predictability | Contract negotiations | High ethics & integrity

Vance Tarter joined Enchanted Rock in 2012 and brings over 28 years of experience in electrical design, installation, construction, and project management for the general and electrical contracting industries. Throughout his career, Tarter has led numerous projects throughout Texas and the Gulf Coast for heavy commercial, industrial, mainstream energy and power generation projects, which logged over a million accident-free man hours,

Tarter completed the IBEW/NECA electrical apprenticeship program, and he currently holds Master Electrician Licenses in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Tarter is also a NCCER certified electrical and professional member of NECA and NFPA.

Thomas McAndrew founded Enchanted Rock in 2006. McAndrew brings over 34 years of experience in energy asset management ranging from large, complex nuclear plants to small distributed generation. McAndrew’s introduction to energy was in engineering and operations on two US Navy nuclear power surface ships, the USS Eisenhower and USS South Carolina. He spent six years operating and maintaining nuclear propulsion plants and qualified as a Naval Nuclear Chief Engineer for the Nimitz Class aircraft carrier. After his time in the US Navy, McAndrew worked as a maintenance support engineer for the Southern Company at their Plant Farley nuclear business, where the cost of loss of electricity to critical loads is extremely high. He then shifted to the financial side of energy, helping several energy merchants build highly profitable trade floors. At his last merchant energy company, Calpine, McAndrew also supervised the commercial startup of many new natural gas combined cycle power plants. When founding Enchanted Rock, McAndrew focused on technologies at or close to the point of final electric consumption that increase reliability, decrease cost, and decrease carbon footprint. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M, Masters Equivalent in Nuclear Power Operations from the US Navy, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.