Exceptional people drive extraordinary outcomes

President & Chief Operating Officer

Jorg Heinemann is a technology operator and systems builder who has spent his career scaling complex, first-of-kind platforms from early-stage to global deployment. He began developing custom capital markets trading systems in Zurich, then spent years at Accenture leading large-scale technology integration for some of Silicon Valley's most demanding companies: Apple, HP, Sun Microsystems, and others. He brought that operational rigor to the energy transition: at SunPower, he led the global power plant business unit, guiding teams that built over 2,000 MW of solar infrastructure while driving more than 60% in cost reductions through engineering and process innovation. As CEO of Enervenue, he scaled a novel energy storage technology through four product generations, multi-GWh commercial traction, and automated manufacturing now scaling in China. At 1st Avenue Power, Jorg leads operations and execution, turning a category-defining technology vision into systems that perform at global scale.

SVP of Mergers & Acquisitions

Todd Bruckel is a clean energy development and investment professional who has spent his career acquiring and developing the land and capital infrastructure that makes large-scale-solar, wind, and battery projects possible. He currently serves as SVP, M&A at 1st Avenue Power where he leads project acquisition, due diligence, and development efforts for the company’s growing pipeline. Todd previously worked 15 years as head of real estate at Avantus, leading land acquisition and development for over 30 gigawatts of projects including some of the largest, leading edge hybrid projects in the U.S. such as Bellfield, Springbok, Eland, and Mt. Signal Solar Farms.  Todd also previously worked as SVP of Renewables at Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities, originating equity capital investments in solar, wind, and battery storage assets across the US, and began his career as an Associate in the investment banking group at Deutsche Bank. He holds an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and is a licensed California broker.

SVP of Power Systems

Milan Ilic is a power electronics engineer whose career spans the design and deployment of advanced energy conversion and grid integration technologies. Before joining 1AP, he was leading Advanced System R&D center for renewable System optimization at Hanwha Qcells Technologies, in Santa Clara, California. Before that he was with Electric Hydrogen, where he led power systems development for megawatt-scale electrolysis infrastructure, translating complex engineering challenges into deployable hardware. At SolarEdge Technologies, he worked on advanced inverter and power conversion systems at different power scales. He is a co-inventor on multiple patents in power converter control and decentralized power sharing, work that sits at the heart of how modern energy systems are made reliable, efficient, and grid-stable. His technical foundation includes a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Colorado and ongoing research in decentralized power systems. At 1st Avenue Power, Milan leads power systems engineering, bringing deep technical expertise to the integrated architecture that defines 1AP's approach.

SVP of Project Finance

Will Bonano is a capital markets professional who has spent his career financing the build-out of power infrastructure. He is a CFA Charterholder and began at Prudential Private Capital's Power & Renewables group, where he structured and closed over $1.6 billion in investments across 26 transactions spanning renewable generation, conventional power, battery storage, and transmission, as well as helping raise a dedicated $340 million energy fund. At Advanced Power, he led equity and debt capital raises and M&A activity for greenfield and operating power projects, including a landmark $862 million Term Loan B financing that marked the largest single-asset floating rate deal of its kind in the market. Will graduated magna cum laude from Texas Christian University, where he received a B.B.A. in Finance and a minor in Accounting. At 1st Avenue Power, Will brings the financial architecture expertise to fund the next generation of power systems at scale.

SVP of Product

Brian Hendrickson is a multi-disciplinary product and technology executive who has spent his career bringing deep-technology systems from concept to global scale. He holds an MBA and an MS in Energy Systems from MIT and engineering degrees from Dartmouth, and began his career as an expert engineer advising the NTSB and US Department of Defense. At Apple, he structured and supervised $2.5 billion in strategic technology partnerships and investments, translating deep R&D into scaled platforms across flagship products. At ChargePoint, he scaled supply chain operations tenfold across six countries, led hardware and software product through rapid industry change, and helped drive revenue from $92 million to over $468 million. At 1st Avenue Power, Brian leads product, bringing systems thinking and hardware-to-software integration expertise to the next generation of power plant design.

SVP of Origination and Power Marketing

Jeff Osmond is an energy markets specialist with over 15 years of experience structuring, trading, and commercializing power across the most complex markets in the US. He began his career at Morgan Stanley and BP Energy before moving into structured origination at AEP Energy Partners and power marketing at GDF Suez (now ENGIE). At RWE Renewables, he helped build a new power trading and origination group responsible for commercializing a 3.5 gigawatt ERCOT generation portfolio. At Cypress Creek Renewables, he was the first hire dedicated to building out origination, trading, and portfolio management capabilities, executing first-of-their-kind option structures and serving on the leadership team through a private equity sale. While at Cypress, Jeff also executed multiple utility-scale offtake agreements with hyperscale customers, as well as multiple stand-alone storage commercializations. At 1st Avenue Power, Jeff leads origination and power marketing, connecting the company's technology platform to the revenue structures that make it bankable at scale.

SVP of Technology

Dr. Finbar Sheehy is a technologist and analyst whose career sits at a rare intersection: deep engineering expertise, financial rigor, and strategic innovation. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Caltech and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation, a combination that allows him to evaluate emerging technologies not just for what they can do, but for what they can deliver economically at scale. Before 1AP, Finbar brought that lens to McKinsey and then to Avantus, where he spearheaded innovation initiatives, led techno-economic assessments, and built the company's IP portfolio to advance utility-scale solar deployment at gigaton scale. At 1st Avenue Power, he drives innovation strategy, IP development, and the technical and economic analysis that underpins 1AP's approach to next-generation power system design.

VP of People

Jody Atkins is a people and talent executive who has spent 15 years building the recruiting organizations that power high-growth technology companies. At NextRoll, she scaled talent operations 3.5x across North America, Europe, and APAC personally leading searches that placed the company's President, CFO, CTO, CRO, and CMO while pioneering AI-enabled recruiting infrastructure and maintaining offer acceptance rates above 93% through multiple organizational changes. She earned Partner of the Year recognition for employer branding, served as director of talent acquisition at Reflektive, and directed global recruiting operations at Riverbed Technology earlier in her career. At 1st Avenue Power, she leads People with both the operational precision of enterprise tech and a deep belief that the right team, built with intention, is the foundation of everything, and is doing exactly that.

VP of Capital Markets

Eric Kang is a capital markets and infrastructure finance professional who has spent his career structuring and closing complex transactions at the intersection of clean energy and institutional capital. At Avantus, he executed transactions across more than 660 MW of utility-scale solar and 250 MW of battery storage, pioneering financial models for solar tax credits and green hydrogen under the Inflation Reduction Act. At Solariant Capital, he led M&A and project finance across a 3.5 gigawatt renewable energy portfolio, closing sell-side processes, arranging capital raises, and executing portfolio sales to institutional buyers across multiple continents. He began his career at J.P. Morgan and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. At 1st Avenue Power, Eric structures the capital that funds the next generation of power infrastructure.

VP of Operations

Drew Lowe is a strategy and operations executive who has spent his career building the procurement, supply chain, and financial infrastructure that lets technology companies scale without losing control. At Apple, he led global supply chain across multiple product ramps, managing real-time disruptions with an international team spanning three continents. At Hulu, he built strategic sourcing from the ground up and led a FinOps function responsible for $1.2 billion in spend, delivering over $250 million in savings. At SiriusXM, he centralized a world-class sourcing, partnerships, and contract management organization within product and technology. He began his career leading large-scale transformation programs at Deloitte. At 1st Avenue Power, Drew leads operations, bringing the rigor of world-class technology supply chains to the energy transition

VP of Product Development

Greg McPheeters is a mechanical engineer and product inventor who has spent his career designing the hardware systems that make solar deployable at scale. He began in 2001 at EcoEnergies, one of the country's earliest solar installers, developing proprietary mounting systems before modern racking companies existed. He went on to become the founding engineer at REC Solar's commercial business unit, later acquired by Duke Energy. In 2007 he founded SnapNrack, growing it to a gigawatt of deployment by 2016, protected by over 50 patents, and acquired by SunRun, now one of the most-installed residential racking systems in the US. At Ojjo, he led truss foundation development for leading solar tracker systems across multiple gigawatts of projects before joining NextPower through the Ojjo acquisition. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University. At 1st Avenue Power, Greg leads product development, bringing a career's worth of Innovative hardware design and systems thinking to the next generation of power plant design.