Robert (Bob) Pender is one of the company’s co-founders, currently serves as Executive Co-Chairman of the company, and also serves as an Executive Co-Chairman of the company’s board of directors. Mr. Pender previously served as Co-CEO of Venture Global LNG, Inc.
Prior to founding the company, Mr. Pender previously practiced law for over 28 years, specializing in alternative energy project finance, including during the early years of the sustainable energy transition in the U.S. Mr. Pender has worked on over $35 billion of energy, infrastructure and power projects, including cogeneration, biomass, wind, hydro, geothermal, LNG and nuclear. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Pender previously served as a partner at Hogan Lovells, a global law firm, where he was the Chair and Practice Group Director of its Project & International Finance Group for a decade. Mr. Pender has led large-scale energy infrastructure transactions throughout North America, Central and South America, and South Asia, including representations of nation states, such as the Government of India (through its Ministry of Power), the Republics of Ecuador and Guyana and the Peoples Republic of China (through its SOEs, Sinosure and China Development Bank), lenders, equity investors and developers. Mr. Pender also provided several years of pro bono support to, among others, the American Red Cross for tsunami relief in South Asia, Accion for micro-finance capital projects in Africa and the Republic of Haiti, beginning with legal support to the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, then serving as a counselor to the Minister Delegate for Energy Security, Republic of Haiti.
