LS Power Group

Paul Segal has served as Chief Executive Officer of LS Power, an independent power and transmission developer, since 2011, and is a member of the firm's Management Committee. Before becoming CEO, he oversaw the company's asset management and renewables development activities, and in 2002 he founded Luminus Management, a hedge fund focused on publicly-traded power, energy, and utility companies, where he was President and Portfolio Manager until 2011. Segal began his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking group at Smith Barney and holds a B.S. in Bio-Chemical Engineering from the Rutgers College of Engineering.

James Bartlett is Vice Chairman at LS Power and a member of its Management Committee, having joined the firm in 2005. Before LS Power, he was a Managing Director in Credit Suisse's Energy Investment Banking Group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions in the utility and independent power sectors, and earlier held positions at Kendall Capital Partners and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from Tufts University.

Joseph Esteves is Vice Chairman at LS Power, which he joined in 2004, and serves on the firm's Investment Advisory Committee. He previously held the roles of Chief Financial Officer and Co-Head of Private Equity at the company, overseeing more than $60 billion in financings and investments. Before LS Power, he was Executive Vice President at Comverge, Inc. and spent fifteen years in energy-focused investment banking at UBS, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Brothers; he holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a B.EE from Cooper Union.

Darpan Kapadia is Chief Operating Officer of LS Power, a power generation, transmission, and energy infrastructure investment and operating company, and serves on its Management and Investment Committees. He previously served as the firm's Head of Strategy, and before joining in 2004 held roles as a Vice President in the Investment Management Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as a Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Kapadia holds a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and his board memberships include EVgo Inc., REV Renewables LLC, Clearlight Energy LLC, K2 Integrity Inc., and the William & Mary Foundation, which he chairs.