Mel Jones is an accomplished chief executive with a broad range of leadership experience in the energy and information technology sectors. Focused on creating shareholder value, he has generated a career total of $546 million in revenue and raised $250 million in debt and equity capital to fuel further growth. Areas of specialty include business startup and expansion, strategic planning, strategic partnerships and alliances, Fortune 100 account relationships, contract negotiation and infrastructure development.

Mr. Jones leads Azurent’s business development and supply acquisition activities, building on many years of deep and broad experience in the electric utility, renewable energy and carbon credits sector. In his prior role as CEO of the first company with a nationally available renewable energy credits choice, he built a startup company to prominence as the nation’s leading retail provider of RECs to corporations while also supplying utilities and government agencies in compliance markets. Mr. Jones negotiated contracts for the sale of more than 60 billion RECs, generating $288 million in revenue and earning four awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for REC supplier of the year.

He began his career with 19 years at Southern Company, where he led development of complex records management software for the utility’s newest nuclear power plant and later marketed that software through a Southern subsidiary. Mr. Jones also served as vice president of Texas-based Electronic Data Systems.

An outspoken leader in the clean energy market, Mr. Jones has served on six boards guiding the renewable energy sector, including the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the Renewable Energy Markets Association (REMA). He has advised and/or testified before the public utility commissions in the states of New York, Florida, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii and Nevada on renewable energy and energy conservation policy.  He holds a B.S. degree in statistics from the University of Georgia.

Bette Trevillion is a senior executive tasked with overseeing the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of Azurent. She handles all the company’s internal affairs and mainly focuses on executing the company’s business plan. Activities include communications, public relations, project proposal development, accounting and human resources management. She brings to this role decades of utility and energy experience, with more than 15 years of management in the carbon credits and renewable energy sector.

In prior roles, Ms. Trevillion coordinated with utilities in the Northeast and South to help design, launch and manage their green pricing programs. Among her achievements was successful launch of a unique offer by a mid-Atlantic natural gas provider to counteract the impacts of natural gas usage with locally produced carbon credits and improve the Chesapeake Bay airshed and water quality. She has worked closely with key customers, such as Intel and Microsoft, to craft compelling content that conveys their environmental commitments and results. This collaboration resulted in successful nominations of 21 top-tier clients for green power leadership awards. She also developed an online carbon calculator that prospective customers could use to offset their environmental footprint.

She began her career as a daily newspaper reporter and later transitioned to corporate communications positions for large investor-owned electric utilities, including Southern Company and Duke Energy. On a freelance basis, she also delivered communications solutions for large nonutility companies, including BellSouth, Equifax, United Parcel Service and Coca-Cola. Areas of specialty include traditional marketing, online marketing and public relations, product differentiation, sales support, proposal management, packaging and online presence.  She has a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina.

GNP Jena leads a team of engineers and technical analysts who are instrumental in development of Azurent’s detailed plans for development of a pipeline of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects. Jena and his group provide pre-EPC engineering support and design, pre-construction project planning, desktop studies, permitting scopes, interconnection planning, pricing analysis, market research and intelligence, supply-chain management and various other essential early-stage services. Jena also is the key interface with component and engineering services vendors.

Jena possesses more than three decades of experience as an accomplished global business leader with expertise specific to sustainable energy development with a special emphasis on the American market. Jena also spearheads Azurent efforts to coordinate with Nasdaq on Green Bonds listing to raise funds for renewable energy projects and afforestation.

Jena has earned business and engineering degrees from Utkal University and Delhi University in India.

Tim Blackmore is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of delivering projects and management of development teams in the Australian renewable energy industry. Tim has developed pipelines of solar and energy storage batteries in the Australian market, regarded as one of the largest and most physically challenging electric grids in the world. Project sizes range from hives of electric distribution assets to the advisory and equity delivery of a 500MWac solar-storage hybrid project in south Australia. Over his career in renewables development, Tim has helped bring into service more than 3 GW of energy transactions. Over the last eight years, he has also held chairman roles and advisory roles to some of Australia’s largest developers, and has advised a number of foreign investors for their strategy to enter Australian National Electricity Market. He is an experienced financier, skilled in project finance, with an emphasis on renewable project development, electricity markets and the legal and technical structures that deliver optimum leverage solutions.

As joint managing partner at Proval Renewables, Tim has had primary responsibility for fund raising and project identification in Australia. Proval is a full-service renewable energy developer, investor, arranger of debt and equity and advisor to inbound global IPPs, private equity and funds. Prior to renewable energy managerial roles and investment, Tim had an international career in institutional banking as a director in US, UK and Australian banks in project, corporate and capital markets.

Tim has a bachelors degree in economics and geography from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

George Starke, Jr. has extensive experience in finance for utility-scale renewable energy projects and commercial real estate. In 1993, he founded ISC Financial Corporation as a full-service, diversified, reliable, experienced source of capital for large renewable energy projects and commercial real estate nationwide and in Europe. As president and sole owner of ISC, George has successfully helped fund projects in a range of disciplines and provided risk management and property and casualty insurance services.

Earlier in his career, George was project manager for the privatization of large gas, electric, water and wastewater utilities on large military bases for Pepco Energy Services, a subsidiary of the Potomac Electric Power Company, serving DC and parts of Maryland. He once owned a coal and oil distributorship, as well as a member firm of the NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) and SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corporation). His background includes employment for Moody’s Investor Service, government contracting for the Greyhound Corporation and liaison with Cargill, Koch and other major companies in product sales to the federal government.

John Allen brings a 40+ year plethora of experience in global and domestic renewable energy business and project development, acquisition and project finance, banking, logistics, construction, management and research along with a network of renewable project developers and EPCs, equity partners and funding sources. John has years of experience in debt/equity sourcing for utility and C&I scale solar, wind, geothermal and WTE renewable projects along with preparation and packaging projects for funding and development.

As president and CEO of One Globe Corporation, John led an array of energy project development and financing activities: M&A, sourcing, EPCs, technologies and funding for utility-scale renewable energy developments, RFP and SOQ response preparation, business development, global project finance, executive presentations, financial modeling, marketing and management.

His experience and highly effective organizational and leadership skills, capabilities as a creative and thoughtful planner, and commitment to a successful project outcome enable him to quickly assess situations and formulate strategies utilizing opportunities for beneficial solutions. John holds a bachelors degree from the University of Kansas.

Will Mitchell is responsible for the management and implementation of information and computer technologies at Azurent. As CIO, Will analyzes how various technologies benefit the company or improve an existing business process and then integrates technologies to realize that benefit or improvement. Responsibilities include insuring that the company’s hardware and software are adequate for the company’s needs, that the company has sufficient online infrastructure and addressing information security concerns. Will seeks to maximize company productivity and make complex tasks more achievable through automation.

He completed studies at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.