Director of Engineering and Construction

Jim Brown

Jim is responsible for all of Key Capture Energy’s engineering, procurement and construction activities. Before joining Key Capture Energy, Jim was the President of RockRidge Consulting where he worked as the Construction Manager on KCE NY 1. Previously Jim was with Apex Clean Energy, AWS Truepower, and Tetra Tech Construction and involved in the construction and financing of over 5 gigawatts of large scale utility projects.

Jim graduated from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry with a BS in Wood Products Engineering and a MS in Sustainable Construction Management and Engineering.

Chief Commercial Officer

Nicole Wolf

As Key Capture Energy’s Chief Commercial Officer, Nicole is responsible for all long-term power origination and commercial activities. Before joining Key Capture Energy, Nicole was Vice President of Origination for Panda Power Funds.  While at Panda, she successfully executed $600 million of hedges used to secure financing of $4.1 billion for the development of four natural gas-fired power plants representing an installed capacity of 3,560 MW.  She has held various positions in the wholesale origination groups at NextEra Energy, BP Energy, Sempra Energy & Trading and Duke Energy Trading & Marketing. Nicole started her career at Enron Capital & Trade Resources where she was in the analyst program.

Nicole graduated from The University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science.

Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer

Dan Fitzgerald

Dan is responsible for overseeing project development and construction and for managing the day to day operations at Key Capture Energy. Previously, Dan was with Apex Clean Energy and established a northeastern portfolio of wind projects from eastern Maine to western New York. Dan created a pipeline of over 750 MW with additional prospects under evaluation. Prior to that Dan worked for EDP Renewables where he completed development of and successfully brought to construction the 215 MW Marble River Wind Farm in northern New York. Many of Dan’s other wind projects have advanced to commercial operation or are ready for construction. Dan has served as a board member for the Alliance for Clean Energy New York.

Before his work in the renewable energy industry, Dan was a project manager at two software startups. Thirteen years of that time was spent with MapInfo Corporation, a GIS software company that was launched as a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) incubator project and developed into a worldwide location intelligence and GIS platform that was later acquired by Pitney Bowes and became Pitney Bowes Business Insight.

Dan is a graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jeff Bishop

Jeff is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, capital allocation, financing, and regulatory requirements. Jeff has spent his career working on utility-scale renewable energy projects and has a proven track record at the intersection of finance, commercial and policy in all growth stages of renewable energy development companies. 

Prior to founding Key Capture Energy, Jeff was at Brookfield Renewables and EDP Renewables/Horizon Wind Energy. Jeff has extensive experience in financial planning and controls, financial modeling, and process improvement; there are over $2 billion in operating wind farms today based on Jeff’s financial models.   

Jeff formerly served on or led the boards of renewable advocacy groups such as Renewable Energy Northeast, the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, and the Maine Renewable Energy Association. Jeff has an MBA from the University of Chicago, a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and is currently working on his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah.