About Modern Energy

Bo has served as American Efficient’s Chief Investment Officer since 2016 and has played a leadership role on the investment committee of Modern Energy, American Efficient’s parent company. Prior to joining American Efficient, Bo held various marketing, origination, and finance roles at Citigroup, Credit Suisse, and JPMorgan, where he provided strategic planning, risk management, and liquidity services to the firms’ clients in the power sector. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in economics from Harvard College, where he played varsity soccer. Bo lives in Durham with his wife, two sons, and two dogs. Close

Angela Fox is the Chief Markets Officer at American Efficient. Prior to joining American Efficient, Angela led business development teams at an international non-profit on over 75 bids from 40+ clients ranging from $400K to $750M, including large anchor USAID and BMGF projects. She led diversification efforts through managing collaborative efforts with corporate strategy on competitive funding landscapes and business opportunity planning as well as overhauling the strategic small bidding process for low dollar projects with new funders. Angela also worked in operations for a defense consulting firm overseeing OCONUS contractors on work with DOD, DOS, and foreign ministries. She graduated from Duke University with distinction and now lives in Durham with her husband and son. Close

Tyler Curtis serves as the Chief Technology Officer at American Efficient. Prior to joining American Efficient, Tyler led research, data science and product development teams at Capital One, Opower and Amazon. Most recently, Tyler led new product development at Capital One Labs, supporting the bank’s digital transformation by creating learning products focused on software development, machine learning and data engineering for 9000+ technology staff. As a founding member of Opower, Tyler built the Data Science practice. He invented the algorithmic underpinnings of Opower’s energy efficiency software business, securing the company’s first three patents. Tyler holds a BSE from Duke University. Tyler lives in Durham, NC with his wife, two sons and a remarkable three-legged dog. Close

Pedro joined Faro from his role as Finance Executive at Renova Energia, the largest Brazilian wind Independent Power Producer (IPP) company in Brazil, where he was responsible for corporate restructuring. Previously, Pedro was an Investment Director at Rioforte Brazil, a private equity investment holding company with EUR 3 billion of assets under management. At Rioforte, Pedro held board positions in renewable energy (hydro and wind) and agribusiness portfolio companies. Prior to this, Pedro was a Director at Ecoprogresso, where he was deeply involved in the creation and investment of the first Portuguese carbon fund (Luso Carbon Fund) and led successful investments in Brazil and China. Close

Felipe joined Faro Energy in 2016 as Solar Engineering Specialist. Previously, Felipe was a Senior Analyst for Business Development, Market Research and Solar DG Go to Market Strategy at Renova Energia, the largest Brazilian wind Independent Power Producer (IPP) company in Brazil. During this period, he also took part in international M&A transactions, utility scale solar projects development and energy auctions. Prior to Renova, Felipe held roles at several e-commerce start-ups. Felipe holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of São Paulo. Close

A co-founder and Managing Director of Industrial Sun, Wade has served as a development executive or General Counsel for over 2GW of utility-scale solar energy projects across the United States, including some of the largest projects in operation today. As a result of his efforts, more than $2 billion in funds have been successfully invested in operational renewable energy projects, with enough clean energy generated to power the equivalent of over 500,000 American homes. Earlier in his career, he was a General Counsel and land management executive in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Gungoll earned a B.A., with distinction, from Yale and holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Close

Kirk leads the business and all commercial efforts at Pave Power. As a former NABCEP certified solar installer with a background in building early-stage businesses, he understands energy projects from the ground up and thrives on finding values-aligned partners with whom to build and scale innovative, customer-centric solutions. He brings strong industry leadership to Pave Power, having previously served as founding VP of Brookfield’s Distributed Generation development business, and as the commercial leader of GE Solar - where he architected the commercial strategy and core team for distributed energy development. Kirk holds a B.A. in History from Trinity College. When he’s not engrossed in his work at Pave, Kirk enjoys skiing, hot yoga, futile attempts at the game of golf, regularly attending the NCAA’s and Olympics for Wrestling, and bringing his wife and two children on as many weekend excursions and travel adventures as they’ll tolerate. Close