Chris J Frantz

Chief Financial Officer

Christopher is an experienced executive, financial officer, and business development leader with a broad understanding of both the traditional and renewable energy worlds. He has operated at the executive level in both large and small organizations for over two decades and has a deep understanding of energy project and business entity mergers & acquisitions, financing, development, permitting, and large facility construction. Christopher has proven experience in structuring and implementing fuel and energy tolling agreements, sales contracts, and midstream water agreements. He has a successful track record of physical plant permitting, development and financing both domestically and abroad. Christopher excels at new business creation and growth, having raised over $55 million in startup private equity and over $20 million in project finance private equity. He is fluent in merger and acquisition due diligence as well as post-merger integration. Christopher also has extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and executing financial and legal agreements of all types with a strong background in federal and state permitting, biofuels, and renewable tax credits and certifications.