Renewable Energy Pavilion

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Alok Garg has 20 years of experience in power, renewables and project finance and leads Wells Fargo Energy Group’s efforts in the Renewables & Asset Finance space. He started the Renewables Corporate & Investment Banking business at Wells Fargo in 2014 building it into an industry leading team. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at Scotiabank focused on leveraged and project finance transactions. He started his career as an Associate at Enron Corp where he worked on commodity structuring, M&A and principal investment transactions.

He received an MBA from Georgetown University, Washington DC where he was a Dean’s Scholar with full scholarship. He has a B.A. Honors in economics from University of Delhi and is a CFA charter holder.

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Mike Sloan is a Texas-based renewable energy consultant assisting energy companies and governments globally with development of power projects using wind, solar, and bioenergy. After completing Mechanical Engineering degrees from Notre Dame and UT Austin, Mike started his career as a clean energy “pioneer” long before utility-scale wind or solar had come to Texas, assisting some of the world’s largest renewable energy development companies with prospective projects in the Western U.S., Hawaii, Europe and Africa.

Serving in various volunteer capacities focused on energy and economic development for Texas Governors Richards, Bush and Perry, Mike achieved national recognition for his leadership role in the development of Texas’ highly acclaimed “energy policy” for renewable energy development and proactive electric transmission (the $7 billion CREZ transmission plan enabled $40 billion in new wind and solar). During his tenure managing The Wind Coalition trade association, Texas became America’s #1 wind power state (wind capacity increased 200-fold) and regarded as a “best practices” model for the nation. Since 2015, Mike has primarily worked with solar, storage and infrastructure development in North America, the Caribbean and Africa.

Mike is an advocate for foster kids, a lousy fisherman, and still a pioneer – living in an 1850’s frontier house outside San Antonio, built by a Tejano soldier who had fought at the Alamo to help earn Texas’ freedom.

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Yoann Hispa is CEO and co-founder of LandGate. Prior to that, he was Executive Director of Engineering of Ruspetro, and President of Optimix Energy Corp that worked for Private Equities and Investors in their oil and gas evaluations, acquisitions, divestitures, and drilling operations. Yoann has 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry mainly with Operators in various technical roles from Geoscientist to Reservoir Engineer. While at Anadarko Petroleum Corp, he worked on most of the Unconventional US Onshore assets, in International Exploration, and as Technical Team Lead of Wattenberg's development.

Yoann holds an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado, an MS in Petroleum Eng. from the University of Texas at Austin, an MS in Geomechanics from the University of Birmingham (UK), an MSc in Civil Engineering from ESTP (Paris, France), and a BS equivalent in Math/Physics. Yoann speaks English, French, Spanish, and Czech fluently.