EP 147 WAYNE BARNETT

Wayne Barnett- Head, External Affairs, Cordia Mr. Barnett is responsible for development and supporting Cordia’s thermal district and distributed energy Infrastructure businesses across North America and advancing the company’s interests. He leads initiatives that build and execute brand awareness, strengthen marketing and communications, raise corporate visibility, foster strategic partnerships, and expand relationships with policy makers, energy infrastructure industry leaders, and other influencers and stakeholders. Mr. Barnett has over 23 years of experience in the energy infrastructure and finance sectors including taxable and tax-exempt capital markets, public finance banking, integrated facility management (IFM), demand side energy efficiency, thermal district, combined heat & power (CHP), Microgrid and distributed energy. Most recently, Mr. Barnett had similar responsibilities for developing and implementing the business development strategy for Facility Management and Energy Services in Aramark’s Higher Education division and Constellation, An Exelon Company’s Energy Service Company (ESCO) business in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, with an emphasis on Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. Mr. Barnett’s previous experience includes A Vice President for NW Financial Group within their financial advisory and underwriting business where he worked on refunding and new money issuance of approximately $1.2 billion of taxable and tax-exempt bonds for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. An Institutional Fixed-Income Sales Associate with Wells Fargo & Company’s Institutional Brokerage and Corporate Trust divisions with sales coverage responsibility for middle-market corporations and government clients including, state, local municipalities and authorities. Fixed-Income trader for SunTrust Bank Corporation where he was a member of a trading team with responsibility for trading in excess $20 billion of US Government, Municipal, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Government Agency, Money Market, and Corporate bonds. Wayne began his career as an Analyst in the global funding group with Bank of America Corporation. As an analyst, he provided analytical support in managing balance sheet liquidity and distribution of the bank’s own debt instruments to middle market corporations, money managers, and government clients in furtherance of the organization’s funding needs. See the Video Interview HERE