advisors

Ramesh Raman
Advisory Board

Ramesh Raman brings over 16 years of experience in executing non-recourse and structured project finance transactions, project development and commercial banking experience in the power, gas and oil (upstream and downstream), petrochemical, steel, and transportation sectors.

In his career, Mr. Raman has acted as lead project financier for US and global project financings and advisories to US clients for projects in North America, Latin America and Southeast Asia. He also brings project development experience, having led the negotiation and structuring of all commercial and financial aspects for power projects throughout the US. He has supplemented his experience in project finance and development, by working on joint venture partnership agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and US partnership taxation issues. Representative transactions in power include gas, coal, biomass (CAFO, waste, MSW) geothermal, hydro and wind projects. Mr. Raman is currently working on structuring financing for port facility projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading the Jamaica LNG project, and developing an investment fund for energy projects in Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf.

Prior to joining Taylor-DeJongh, Mr. Raman was the COO of Energy Development Group, a national independent power development company that developed 4,000MW over a period of 3 years, and consultant to various independent power producers involved in CHP and distributed generation. Prior to the development experience, Mr. Raman held senior positions within project finance at Sakura Bank Limited (now SMBC Corporation), Dresdner Bank AG, and the Bank of Tokyo in New York.

Mr. Raman earned his B.S. in Finance from San Diego State University.

Don Weiss
Senior Advisor

Don Weiss has an entrepreneurial history, having founded several companies in the high-tech sector. He was recently with the Investment Banking group at Marco Polo Network, where he focused on business opportunities in the alternative energy business. Prior assignments include Bell Labs, where he was brought on to commercialize Bell Labs' technologies by raising capital from financial and strategic sources, as well as from government grant programs to support civilian and military programs. He founded Standard MEMS and acquired the silicon foundry assets of Standard Micro Systems. He held a number of sales and marketing positions with major companies prior to founding and serving as CEO of Measurement Specialties (NASDAQ: MEAS) for ten years. Over his career, he developed and co-invented patented products—-8 patents filed by Bell Labs (Lucent).

He has high security clearance, and holds a degree in economics from City College of New York.