ARRAKIS DEVELOPMENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Secretary of the Department of Community
- Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives
Mr. Tamburro has 20 years of international relations and program management experience. Mr. Tamburro is the first person to enter a new market, establishes key business and governmental relations and crafts the overall project engagement time line and objectives.
In 2014, Mr. Tamburro, while at International Electric Power, led the execution of a successful tender, winning an 80 MW capacity based PPA in Panama. Since 2010, Mr. Tamburro has executed significant contract negotiations regarding fuel supply, tariffs, land leases and partnerships in both Pakistan and Panama. Prior to Arrakis Development and International Electric Power, Mr. Tamburro had created Rabta, LLC to encourage and achieve significant strategic business development between Pakistan and the United States
During his career, Mr. Tamburro has had the pleasure of private meetings with Fortune 500 CEO's and sitting heads of state. He has traveled extensively throughout the world, having visited close to 50 countries. Mr. Tamburro participated in the Pennsylvania Mission to China, led by then Secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development, Dennis Yablonsky, under Governor Ed Rendell in 2007. Additionally he participated in the Pittsburgh Middle East Institute's Business Exchange Mission to Oman in 2010.
Mr. Tamburro is a graduate of Clark University, where his global interests were encouraged both academically and professionally. He expanded his work in university development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he developed and implemented an international advancement program. After its successful implementation, including facilitating CMU's entrance into the World Economic Forum's conversations in Davos, he accepted a leadership position at CMU within its H. John Heinz III College serving as the Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives. Mr. Tamburro maintains Urdu language skills.
Enrique is a Board of Directors' member and Executive VP of Marketing for Energy Integrated Solutions, Inc. Additionally, Enrique is Founder/Managing Director of Energy Generation Services and former Regional Sales Director at Wood Group GTS. Both companies are focused in Power Generation services supporting international markets.
Enrique has 30 years of experience in different fields such as Telecommunications, Energy and Oil & Gas. He has held leadership positions at Lucent Technologies, Petrolera Nacional, S.A. (Panama) and Texaco. He was appointed General Secretary of the Ministry of Public Works in Panama.
Enrique received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Villanova University, MBA from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico - INCAE and PMP from Universidad Tecnológica de Panama.
Fernando Barria M. is President of FB & Asociados, Inc., a consulting firm in Panama.
Mr. Barria has a Bachelors degree from Villanova University in B.A. in Business Administration with a major in Finance. He holds an MBA from Pace University in New York with a major in Corporate Finance and Markets.
Fernando has 35 years of banking experience, having worked for 21 years with Chase Manhattan Bank in Panamá, New York and Dominican Republic in multiple roles including in Operations, as Head of Accounting Policy and Procedures, as Head of the Cost and Profitability Unit, and as Head of Treasury and Emerging Markets. Mr. Barria also worked with HSBC for 13 years as Head of Treasury, Global Markets, and Global Banking with Regional Responsibilities for Central America, the Caribbean and some South American countries.
Fernando was the former Director of multiple organizations including CIFI in Washington, D.C., Hospital Santo Tomás in Panamá, Patronato de Nutrición, Club Kiwanis de Panamá and served as a former member of the Banking Clearing Committee of the Republic of Panama.
Guillermo Jose has more than 12 years of experience in areas such as M&A, management consulting, innovation, technology transfer and new business development. He has worked in firms such as Arthur Andersen, Deloitte and Heuristikx and specialized in the high tech and energy sectors. Most recently he has been involved in bringing new energy technologies to the market, designed the whole technology transfer office for the Mexican IEEE and successfully helped to create a couple of spin outs and startups in the energy sector.
Guillermo holds a BA in mathematics and economics from LSE, a BA in accounting from Universidad Iberoamericana, a Masters in information systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA form IPADE business school, a Masters in Innovation and Enterprise development from Tec de Monterrey and a Masters in Finance from the National University of Mexico.
Jim Crisanti has worked in the global electric power, real estate and finance industries for over 25 years. He has extensive experience in structuring and financing (both debt and equity) domestic and international independent power projects. He has led due diligence and acquisition teams throughout much of his career for major Wall Street Investment Banks and is proficient at financial modeling, contract negotiations and the solicitation of financial institutions for the funding of independent power projects. As such, he has acted as owner, investor, advisor and/or financier for dozens of projects that have both reached financial close and been constructed in countries located in North and South America, Asia and Europe.
Mark is currently CEO of Roadbotics. Before he was chairman of kWantix Trading LLC, a commodity pool operation that buys and sells electricity in the day ahead and real-time power markets. He is also the former President & CEO and cofounder of kWantera. In addition Mark has also co-founded a number of other technology businesses and serves as director to several more.
A former CEO at the growing online tutoring company Apangea Learning (renamed Think Through Math), Mark's background in management consulting is complemented by his leadership roles within government. As a former management consultant for Booz Allen, he was the U.S. Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a venture capital firm and consultancy.
Earlier in his career, Mark was the Director of Government Relations for Texas Instruments in Washington, DC and served in several policy positions in the U.S. Federal Government including as a Policy Analyst in both The White House and the late U.S. Senator, John Heinz. Mark holds a B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Dayton, an M.S. in Technology Management from The American University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University.
Mr. Overby serves as the Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany in Pittsburgh. He is also Founder and Chairman of the Board of the German American Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh Chapter. He is a former US diplomat with assignments in the Middle East and was an executive in Bombardier's rail business. Paul, who has founded and invested in various startups, holds a BA degree from Yale University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.
Trent Markell is the founder of PF Engineers, a technical consulting firm providing independent engineering services to lenders, sponsors, developers, and various public agencies. He is a registered professional engineer with over 24 years in the energy business, and has experience with power generation technologies ranging from large thermal plants to the latest technology renewable energy projects. Throughout his career he has been involved with the design and/or review of numerous power facilities with a combined capacity in excess of 42 gigawatts. Additionally, he has been involved in the evaluation of numerous ethanol and biodiesel facilities with a combined production capacity in excess of 2 billion gallons per year. He holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Union College and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.