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Mr. Taylor, 40, is Head of Asia for Arctas. He is focused today on acquisition and development initiatives mainly in China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. He is currently leading the company’s renewable energy development efforts in the Asia region, with a particular focus over the past two years Indonesia geothermal development, China wind and wind equipment suppliers, and advanced Chinese technology and projects involving waste heat power generation and batteries. He advised AES and BP with wind power development portfolios in China totaling over 500MW in aggregate.

Mr. Taylor has eighteen years of experience operating as a global business developer, equity investor, and in-house entrepreneur for two multinational power companies, based in the US, Switzerland, Manila and Hong Kong. He has led or played a leading role in over $3 billion of complex, cross border, multi-cultural joint ventures located in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, and involving partners, customers, and suppliers from over twenty countries. His responsibilities involved virtually every aspect of the independent power industry, as well as the related government regulations and financial markets.

During his five years with Mirant Asia-Pacific based in Manila and Hong Kong, Mr. Taylor led the development team to negotiate Mirant’s equity stake, develop, and secure debt financing for the 1200 MW Ilijan Project, a $710 million gas-fired power plant and anchor consumer for the Philippines’ first indigenous integrated gas-to-power infrastructure development. The project was awarded “deal-of-the-year” by Project Finance and Privatization International business publications.

As head of business development for China, Mr. Taylor led the evaluation and recommendations to management on numerous acquisition targets and was involved in negotiating joint venture agreements in Inner Mongolia and East China. More recently, Mr. Taylor played a role in Mirant’s asset divestiture program and also functioned as international risk manager, with a role in business planning and reporting, credit risk and cash management, insurance, and corporate compliance.

In his various roles as development manager at ABB from 1990 to 1999, he was deeply involved in formulating the company’s business strategies, creating joint ventures to execute strategy, and lead managing the development, commercial structuring, and financial closing processes. He played a leading role for the company in managing the development and financing of API Energia, a $700 million IGCC power plant and one of the first limited recourse project financings closed in Italy.

Mr. Taylor also led a number of legal, technical, commercial, and financial evaluations for investment opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In particular, he structured and negotiated off-take arrangements, EPC arrangements, fuel supply, operation and maintenance agreements, and financing structures for ABB’s natural gas and clean coal initiatives in the Philippines.

r. Taylor was born in Hong Kong and has lived and worked in Asia for over 18 years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University and a Masters of Business Administration from Duke Fuqua School of Business.