Ygrene Energy Fund CEO and leadership

With over 30 years of financial services and high tech experience, Jim is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Ygrene Energy Fund. Previously, Jim was the Chief Executive Officer of National Credit Care and has held senior roles at Hewlett Packard, Capital One, Genworth Financial, and QTS Realty Trust, where he was Chief Operating Officer and took the company public. He has also served on several for-profit and not-for-profit boards. After graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, Jim completed his Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland. He then went on to serve as a naval officer on a nuclear-powered submarine. Upon completing his service, Jim attended Harvard Business School.

Greg Saunders’ career spans three decades, primarily as CFO/COO for 3 publicly traded and 5 venture-backed companies in commercial real estate, financial technology, renewable energy financing, PACE and structured finance.

For the previous 5 years, Greg was CFO and CEO of CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital, Inc., a leading nationwide C-PACE origination platform. Prior to CleanFund, Greg served as CFO at Project Frog, Inc., which designed, manufactured and installed energy efficient modular buildings for school districts and healthcare companies. Previously, Greg was CFO for Tioga Energy, Inc., a nationwide commercial solar energy finance. He was also CFO at Codding Enterprises, a commercial real estate development, construction and management company with major investments across multiple cleantech businesses (and an early adopter of C-PACE). He was previously CFO/COO of Bridger Commercial Funding, helping to build the company into the leading independent, cloud-based CMBS conduit, originating and securitizing over $5 billion of commercial mortgages through its network of thousands of banks across the country. Greg holds a B.A. in Economics and Business from Macalester College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Shawn joined Ygrene in 2020, bringing with him 20-years of experience leading enterprise-wide digital transformation and technology-driven operational improvement programs, and leveraging industry-leading technology and business practices. Shawn’s primary focus is leading Ygrene’s Technology Team and building key data-driven decisioning to enhance the value Ygrene gets from its significant investment in technology. Prior to joining Ygrene, Shawn held a variety of technology-centric executive roles at The Walt Disney Company, NBC\Universal, and Lennar Corporation. He has also served on several not-for-profit boards focused on promoting STEM education. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Central Florida, a Master of Business Administration from University of Phoenix, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University. In addition, he has taught IT and Cyber-Security courses through University of Phoenix and Nova Southeastern University.

Gautam Borooah is an innovative business leader with deep financial services expertise and a record of product and partner ingenuity leading to dynamic and sustainable growth that accelerated sales and expanded key customer relationships at Synchrony Financial, GE, and Citigroup. Gautam’s career has spanned leadership roles in marketing, e-commerce, and product / P&L management across credit cards, student loans, home equity, and mortgage lending.

Gautam joined Ygrene after spending 16 years at Synchrony Financial/GE Capital where he launched programs that changed the growth trajectory of high-value partners like Sam’s Club, HBC (Canada), and an $11B portfolio of clients in the home improvement, HVAC, home furnishing, power sports, luxury, and other lifestyle industries. He was recruited to GE from Citigroup to engineer GE Money’s entry into the home equity market.

Gautam earned an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma), with concentrations in Marketing and Finance, from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Commerce, with Honors in Financial Accounting, from St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta, India.

Joe joined Ygrene in 2022, bringing over 15 years of experience as a leader within Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions across finance, insurance, engineering, and IT industries. Most recently, Joe served as the Risk Officer and Global IT Compliance Officer for Allianz Partners. Prior to Allianz Partners, Joe held various leadership roles at Genworth Financial within Audit, Internal Controls, and Compliance, including the development and implementation of a holistic Data Security and Privacy program. Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

With over 30 years of financial services and high tech experience, Jim is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Ygrene Energy Fund. Previously, Jim was the Chief Executive Officer of National Credit Care and has held senior roles at Hewlett Packard, Capital One, Genworth Financial, and QTS Realty Trust, where he was Chief Operating Officer and took the company public. He has also served on several for-profit and not-for-profit boards. After graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, Jim completed his Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland. He then went on to serve as a naval officer on a nuclear-powered submarine. Upon completing his service, Jim attended Harvard Business School.

Ms. Stacey Lawson is a President and Chief Executive Officer at Ygrene Energy Fund and is based in United States.