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Garth Klimchuk—Founder and Managing Director

Garth Klimchuk, Managing Director

Tel: 914.468.0833

Mr. Klimchuk is responsible for the formation and management of NorthWinds Advisors and its affiliates and has over twenty-five years of financial advisory and project development experience in the renewable energy, power, utility and oil and gas industries in which he has sourced and executed over $3 billion of public and private financing transactions and over $2 billion in M&A transactions. Over the last five years, Mr. Klimchuk has focused on providing M&A and capital raising services exclusively to renewable energy developers with an emphasis on wind and biodiesel projects in which he has sold, on behalf of developer clients, over 2,500 MW of renewable energy projects and assisted several clients in securing and structuring both development and project-based capital. In addition, Mr. Klimchuk has lead the development of NorthWinds' biodiesel projects in which he has overseen the engineering, site selection, permitting, financial analysis and technology design activities in several Northeast states.

Mr. Klimchuk was founder and Senior Managing Director of CENATAR Advisory Group, LLC, an advisory firm focused exclusively on the utility, renewable and energy technology sectors. Prior to founding CENATAR, Mr. Klimchuk was a partner of BOVARO Partners, LLC a boutique investment bank in which he focused on power, utilities and renewable energy financing and M&A advisory assignments. Prior to BOVARO, Mr. Klimchuk was Managing Director and head of Berenson Minella’s Power and Utility Group as well as a member of the power and utility groups of CIBC World Markets, JP Morgan, Chem Systems and Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Mr. Klimchuk received an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School, an M.S. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Geology from Brown University.