Paul oversees Hecate’s business development team who are responsible for early-stage site identification and control, environmental permitting, transmission studies and community engagement for some 48 GW of solar, battery storage and wind energy projects across the continental United States. Paul also leads domestic and international offshore wind development at Hecate. Now totaling over 60 employees, Paul was among the first hires at Hecate, when the company was launched in 2012.

Paul was previously the CEO of Nacel Energy Corporation, a publicly traded wind energy company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. While leading Nacel, Paul was responsible for setting the company’s corporate strategy, raising capital and developing a portfolio of distributed wind energy projects in West Texas, Arizona and Illinois.

Before Nacel, Paul was a Managing Director at Peoples Energy Resources Corp (PERC), the unregulated affiliate of Chicago-based Peoples Energy. While at PERC, Paul led the development of multiple natural gas-fired combined cycle and simple cycle power plants, including the 1,150 MW COB Energy Facility near Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the 280 MW Valencia Energy Facility near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Both fully developed projects were sold, with Valencia being built by Public Service Company of New Mexico and COB sold to J Power.

Prior to joining PERC, Paul was a principal at CornerStone Energy Advisors, which was the principal financial and strategic advisor to Sithe Energies in their acquisition of the $700 million Boston Edison generating portfolio in 1997 and the $1.7 billion General Public Utilities generating portfolio in 1998.

After graduating from UW, Paul started his professional career in 1996 at PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ utility practice in Chicago with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

Paul holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois, MSEE from New Mexico State University, and Ph.D in regulatory economics and environmental and natural resource economics from the University of Wyoming.