Brian Ward has worked for General Electric for over 30 years. He has held a number of management roles in Risk, Finance and Business Development in a variety of industries including telecommunications, aviation and energy across emerging and developed markets.

Before being named President, Brian led GE EFS' international team. In his role, Brian was responsible for leading the business' worldwide financial advisory services and strategic capital investments that drive GE equipment and services revenue growth.

Prior to this, he was Managing Director of GE EFS’ Global Markets team. In that role, Brian led GE EFS’ direct energy investments outside the United States. In the 3+ years, the team has made direct investments totaling ~$3.5B, and attracted third-party capital in excess of $10B.

Brian was previously Chief Risk Officer at GE EFS in charge of underwriting and portfolio risk management for the units’ domestic and international energy assets, a position held since January 2004. During his tenure, the firm successfully invested over $35B in energy infrastructure worldwide.

Brian has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from State University of New York at Oswego and is a graduate of GE’s Financial Management Program.

Gaurav Raniwala leads GE Energy Financial Services’ Global Renewables team, which is responsible for underwriting and structuring project finance investments in the power and renewable energy sectors in the US.

Gaurav has a wealth of expertise in underwriting energy investments, including equity and loan transactions, and strong multi-national and cross-cultural team leadership expertise. Most recently, Gaurav held the position of Business Partner at GE Energy Financial Service, where he has utilized his extensive underwriting expertise to facilitate financing solutions for GE Renewable Energy equipment projects and help the GE business unit grow its global market share. Prior to that and since 2008, Gaurav led the power and renewable energy underwriting team at GE Energy Financial Services.

Gaurav joined GE in 1995.  During his time at GE, he served as Chief Risk Officer of GE Capital’s Franchise Finance business based in Scottsdale, where he had oversight of risk integration and culture change. He also spent 5+ years in the United Kingdom and in Spain, with increasing levels of responsibility, eventually leading the telecom and media underwriting team for GE Capital Europe.

Gaurav has an Masters in Business Administration in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in India.

Susan Flanagan leads GE Energy Financial Services’ Global Power team, which is responsible for underwing and structuring international project finance investments in the power and renewable energy sectors across Europe, Asia, Middle East Northern Africa and Turkey (MENAT), Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Prior to this, Susan held the position of Business Partner at GE Energy Financial Services where she utilized her risk management, financial acumen and commercial expertise to partner with GE Power and develop competitive financing and technology solutions for its global customer base.   

Susan joined GE Energy Financial Services in 2005 and was responsible for managing $2.5 billion of assets in the Portfolio group. She also served the business as a lead underwriter in its Power and Renewable Energy group. Susan has served across the spectrum of finance roles in GE, including a risk rotational assignment at GE Capital headquarters in Norwalk and a 12-month assignment in Beijing supporting China’s State Grid’s Yingda JV. She was also instrumental in providing risk analysis support to Power & Water (Services) in Atlanta, and has also served on the GE Thermal Initiatives team.

Prior to joining GE Energy Financial Services, Susan worked in energy mergers and acquisitions with Ernst & Young, DPL Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Long Island Lighting Company. 

Susan holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Master of Business Administration from New York University. In addition, Susan serves on the Advisory Board for Columbia University’s School of Engineering.

Raghuveer Kurada is GE Energy Financial Services’ Global Capital Advisory Leader based in London. In this role, Raghuveer oversees third-party capital raising activities, including GE’s relationships with Export Credit Agencies, Development Financial Institutions and other debt and equity capital providers globally.

Prior to this role, Raghuveer was Managing Director in GE Energy Financial Services’ Global Growth Markets for India & Southeast Asia, focused on expanding GE’s investment footprint across energy industry segments.

Raghuveer started at GE Capital’s Structured Finance Group (SFG) about fifteen years ago in Stamford, CT and has held various roles in structuring and risk management. During his time at SFG, he participated in a wide variety of structured investments, ranging from debt and lease financing to preferred stock and equity deals in the United States and Southeast Asia, including: the US$950 million Tri-State leveraged lease, the US$400 million Calpine Fox combined-cycle power project, the Philip Morris portfolio acquisition and the Russell City transaction from the Calpine bankruptcy sale process. Most recently, Raghuveer led GE Energy Financial Services’ equity investments in KSK Power’s holding company, Greenko PLC, Welspun Renewables and financing of other Asian power developers. 

Prior to joining GE Capital’s Structured Finance Group, Raghuveer spent six years at GE Energy in Schenectady, NY, as a Lead Proposal Engineer for power plant systems and as an Application Engineer in the energy consulting business.  Raghuveer holds a Master’s degree in Business from Columbia Business School in New York, as well as a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Bill Bradley is the General Counsel of GE Energy Financial Services and responsible for its legal and regulatory affairs.  GE Energy Financial Services is the General Electric business unit that invests in and structures energy transactions globally.  In his role, Bill manages a team of 16 lawyers and other legal professionals providing transactional, environmental, litigation, corporate governance and regulatory advice, support and portfolio management for domestic and international energy investments.  Bill reports to the CEO of GE Energy Financial Services and serves on its senior leadership team.  Bill also serves on GE Capital’s legal senior leadership team, GE’s legal executive committee and various compliance and risk committees.

Bill has practiced law for 29 years in the energy, infrastructure, and financial services sectors.  He has supervised, led and closed billions of dollars in energy related transactions across the globe. 

Bill has worked at GE Energy Financial Services for 12 years as a transaction lawyer, its Associate General Counsel, and currently its General Counsel.  Bill has been a partner in the project finance, banking, energy and infrastructure groups at the internal law firms of Hunton Andrews Kurth and Norton Rose Fulbright serving in US and international offices.  Bill also served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of ContourGlobal, an international power developer.

Bill is a member of the state bars of Connecticut (2009), New York (2004), and Virginia (1989).  Bill serves on the Board of Directors and Governance Committee of Person-to-Person, a charitable agency serving Fairfield County, Connecticut, is the President of the Law Advisory Board of the University of Richmond School of Law, and is a member of the Weston, Connecticut Volunteer Fire Department.

Bill graduated cum laude from the University of Richmond School of Law and earned his bachelor’s degree from James Madison University.

Mark Melanson is Managing Director, Human Resources for GE Energy Financial Services and is responsible for leading the alignment of the business unit to GE’s cultural transformation, recruiting new talent and leading the organization through change.

Mark has been with GE for 27 years. He began his career at GE in the Financial Management Program at GE Aerospace, and held several subsequent Finance roles at GE Capital Vendor Financial Services. Moving into Human Resources in 1996, he served in various capacities with roles of increasing responsibility at GE Insurance Services, GE Card Services, GE Commercial Finance and GE Capital Real Estate, where he led all human resources activities for the North America Lending business. He also served as the Global Financial Management Program Manager from 1999-2002. Mark was named to his current role at GE Energy Financial Services in 2012.

Mark received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Fairfield University. He is a graduate of General Electric’s Financial Management Program.

Mark Ortiz is the Chief Financial Officer for GE Energy Financial Services, where he is responsible for leading the finance team's execution of global financial activities for the business. 

He is a 26-year veteran of GE and has held a variety of finance leadership positions at GE businesses in Asia, Europe and the United States. Most recently, he served as Global Controller at GE Capital Global Legacy Solutions. Prior to that, his roles included Global Controller at GE Capital Commercial Real Estate, Global Operational Controller for GE, Global Controller for GE Capital Americas, Global Operational Controller for GE Capital, CFO for Fleet Services Europe and CFO for Fleet Services Asia. He also served as Global Pricing Leader at GE Fleet Services, Finance Manager for GE Small Fleet Services and Financial Planning & Analysis Manager for GE Information Technology Services. 

Mark began his career in GE’s Financial Management Program and was a member of the Company’s Corporate Audit Staff. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, with two Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and Economics.