Board of Directors

Energy Solutions International Inc. is a privately held company, owned by GFI Energy Group, a private equity investment arm of Oaktree Capital Management Group.
  • Richard Landers, Chairman Oaktree / GFI
  • Jason Lee, Director Oaktree / GFI
  • Bernard Fried, Director and Chairman of Audit and Comp. Committees
  • Brian Freed, Director
  • Dr. Jo Webber
  • TengBeng Koid
  • Joe Dwyer, Director

About GFI

GFI Energy Group executes the Power Opportunities investment strategy, and seeks to make controlling equity investments in successful companies that are well positioned to meet those needs. Formed in 1995 as GFI Energy Ventures LLC, the team has originated and financed over seventy transactions, deploying over $2 billion of equity capital in the electricity and natural gas sectors.

GFI adds value to the companies in which they invest through their industry contacts and market insights, ensuring that their companies have access to capital and other resources to take advantage of attractive market opportunities, and through facilitating collaboration among their portfolio companies.  GFI realizes that they are not management and seek to play a supporting role in their interactions with the leadership of their companies.

Ian Schapiro, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of GFI has stated:

“Our deep experience as investors, consultants, and direct participants in the electricity and natural gas industries gives us distinctive insight into emerging industry needs, and the capability to work with the management teams of our portfolio companies to create significant shareholder value resulting from those needs. We believe our exclusive focus on these critical and rapidly changing industries gives us an advantage in our investing, and provides a meaningful value to our portfolio companies.”

You can find out more about GFI Energy Group at www.gfienergy.com.

About Oaktree

Oaktree Oaktree’s mission is to provide highly professional management with a primary emphasis on  risk control in a limited number of sophisticated investment specialties.  Oaktree specializes in less efficient markets and alternative investments, and has extensive experience, an enviable track record, broad product range and substantial assets under management.  Oaktree is dedicated to the achievement of consistent and superior performance without high risk.  Oaktree’s ultimate objective is investment success, the fruits of which are shared by Oaktree’s clients and personnel.

You can find out more about Oaktree Capital Management Group at www.oaktree.com.