Team

R. Nat Kreamer

Managing Director

Nat Kreamer is the President of Acro Energy Technologies (TSX: ART) and member of the Board of Directors. Acro is a consolidator of solar integration companies. Kreamer created the Chicago Climate Exchange market-making business for Pioneer Futures, a division of MF Global.

Before joining the Acro team, Nat co-founded and served at the President and Chief Operating Officer of SunRun Inc, the nation's leading provider of home solar financing. As the President of SunRun, Nat originated and consummated sales and installation partnerships with the largest solar integration companies in the United States. Nat created the first residential solar finance contract, raised the over $100MM in residential solar project financing (first fund of its kind), and grew the company to become the leading provider of solar home financing.

Formerly an officer in the US Navy, Nat served in the US Special Forces, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. In the military, Nat also has served as the senior targeting officer for the United States Third Fleet, San Diego California, and as a counter-terrorism expert at the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Prior to his service in Afghanistan, Nat was a power industry consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. At PWC, Nat provided financial and risk management advisory services to large electric power companies, financial institutions investing in energy, and governments regulating energy markets, including Constellation Energy Group, Northeast Utilities, the State of California, Shell, and BNP Paribas, among others. Before joining PWC, Nat was in the analyst and associate program at Enron Global Markets where we worked on the Clean Technology Ventures team, which managed a portfolio worth more than $300MM.

Nat has an MBA from Rice University, and a BS from Northwestern University.



Benjamin S. Abram

Corporate Development

Prior to co-founding Lorax Capital, Ben Abram was an associate at The Westly Group, a clean technology venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. There he led the firm's investment in Glacier Bay, an energy efficiency company with a focus on the long-haul trucking market. Ben is a member of Class XIV of the Kauffman Fellows, and serves on a variety of non-profit boards. He is from North Carolina, and graduated from Duke University with a B.S.E. in environmental engineering and a dual degree in public policy studies.



Winthrop Smith

Structured Finance

Most recently, Win worked for New Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focusing in financial, healthcare and business services. New Capital Partners has invested in multiple leasing and lease servicing businesses and is active in the specialty finance space. Win previously spent several years working in mid-market mergers & acquisitions with Hawkpoint Partners, a London based corporate advisor with offices also in Paris and Frankfurt. While there, his sector focus was in specialty finance and asset backed lending businesses. Among other assignments, he spent two years as retained advisor to the niche UK asset backed lender, Davenham Group, (this included ongoing corporate advice to the board, a hostile takeover defense, and a restructuring), managed the buyout of the UKs largest lease-to-own company, Brighthouse, and managed the buyout of one of the UKs leading purchasers of non-performing credit, Lowell Group.

Win received his BA in Economics from Davidson College and is currently finishing his MBA at the University of North Carolina (expected graduation May 2011).




Ryan Podolsky

Customer Development

Prior to co-founding Lorax, Ryan consulted on operations and marketing at Acro Energy Technologies. Formerly, Ryan served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, deploying twice overseas with the 15th and 31st Marine Expeditionary Units.

Ryan received an MA in Russian and Eurasian studies from Stanford University as a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow. He received his BA in government, with honors, also from Stanford, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.


 

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