Leadership at Eolian
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Aaron Zubaty, Chief Executive Officer
Aaron Zubaty founded Eolian in 2020. His work on the assets that became Eolian began in 2005, when he started a renewable energy investment fund managed by MAP Energy, where he was one of three Managing Partners and owners of the firm. In 2020, after 15 years of growing the renewable energy and energy storage investment activity and portfolio, he led its sale to GIP, where he continues to lead its business activities. Before joining Eolian in 2005, Aaron worked for independent power producer AES Corporation. At AES he served in both business development and financial management roles, leading the planning, implementation, and financing of energy projects. He has an MS, Civil Engineering, Concentration in Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology and a BS, Earth Systems, Concentration in Energy, both from Stanford University.
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Stephanie Smith, Chief Operating Officer
Stephanie Smith oversees all operations across Eolian and its subsidiaries. She began her career as a project development and finance lawyer focused on the renewable energy sector. Prior to joining Eolian, she served as the Chief Operating Officer at multiple development companies including Sol Systems, LLC, a solar finance and development company and Greencastle, LLC a renewable energy and energy storage project developer. Previously, she worked for over a decade as an attorney at leading law firms, where she represented clients in the renewable energy, clean technology, and natural gas sectors. She has a JD from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law and a BS in Financial Planning from Texas Tech University.
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Peter Blum, Chief Commercial Officer
Peter Blum joined shortly following the company’s origination in 2005. Peter oversees transactions for all wind, solar and storage investments and is a member of Eolian’s Investment Committee. Peter’s primary responsibilities include managing the documentation of all renewable energy investments, implementation of all instruments underlying wind, solar and storage projects as well as overseeing the final due diligence on all renewable energy investment transactions. Peter’s background also includes working at Edison International in the strategy and business development group focused on power plant acquisitions and asset optimization in the US and abroad. He has a MS in Civil Engineering and a BS in Civil Engineering, both from Stanford University.
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Colin Fisher, Chief Financial Officer
Colin Fisher oversees financial reporting, treasury and internal controls for Eolian. Colin brings two decades of global leadership and CFO experience, garnered at large publicly traded technology companies, venture capital-backed semiconductor and hardware systems companies in Silicon Valley, as well as from private equity-backed portfolio companies. Before joining Eolian, Colin served as CFO for ITRenew, an IT infrastructure services & software company that he helped scale and sell to Iron Mountain. Prior to that, he was the CFO at Raymond Express International, a freight-forwarding and logistics company owned by HIG Capital. Colin earned a BS in Finance from Arizona State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
