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Daniel Goldman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for all financial matters including internal corporate accounting, controls, cash and treasury functions, capital raising, project finance, as well as strategic planning and development. With twenty years of energy industry experience, Mr. Goldman brings a strategic understanding of the global energy market, technology applications within the market, and deep development, structuring and transactional experience in the venture and energy project finance arena. Over the course of his career, Mr. Goldman’s experience has spanned the upstream, midstream and downstream oil, gas, coal and power generation sectors of the industry, and includes an extensive focus on renewable/clean energy and distributed generation technology and project investments. Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Goldman was a co-founder, chief financial officer, and member of the board of directors of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity fund focused on investments in renewable energy, renewable fuels and distributed generation projects. Mr. Goldman developed New Energy Capital’s clean energy investment strategy and deployed capital in projects with a total cost of more than $250 million. He oversaw the company’s eight investments from its formation in July 2004, including three ethanol projects, a biodiesel production facility, a biomass-fired power plant acquisition, and a portfolio of three cogeneration projects; several of these projects have had successful exits. From 1996-2001, Mr. Goldman held regional and corporate senior management positions in Hong Kong and Boston at InterGen, a leading power generation company co-owned by the Bechtel Group and Royal/Dutch Shell. While at InterGen, he was actively involved in more than $4 billion of project development, acquisitions and non-recourse financings, and played a key role in strategy formulation and operational management of the global business. Prior to InterGen, he was a senior member of the energy consulting team at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge and Singapore from 1989-1996, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific Energy Consulting practice from 1992-1996. As a management consultant, Mr. Goldman advised a wide range of utilities, energy companies, multi-laterals and financial institutions regarding technology development, strategy formulation, organizational and operational issues, and investment planning. Mr. Goldman has played a founding role in several companies. He is a co-founder of Minuteman Wind, a wind development company, a co-founder of and Executive Advisor to an energy efficiency investment fund acquired by MMA Renewable Ventures, a division of MuniMae (NYSE: MMA), and a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Clean Energy Venture Group, an early stage investment fund. He is also a founding investor in several clean energy technology companies, a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England (www.e2.org), a founding member and advisor of the New England Clean Energy Council. Mr. Goldman received a B.S. from Cornell and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and he serves on Cornell University’s Business Advisory Council. Mr. Goldman received a B.S. from Cornell and a M. Sc. from the London School of Economics. | 