Andrew Aymen Samawi
Samawi is the Founder and Board Member of Pinnacle Global Energy, LLC.
In addition, Samawi is a Senior Strategist to GammaWealth Strategy &
Research, LLC. Prior to founding Pinnacle, Samawi co-founded and held
the position of Managing Partner and Chief Operations officer Capstone
Global Energy. Capstone serves the growing needs for risk management
and restructuring in the world energy markets. Comprised of professionals
from Wall Street and the energy industry, Capstone helps position clients
for successful participation in emerging energy markets from conceptualization
to implementation. Capstone's clients across the United States and Europe
include energy service providers, energy asset portfolio managers, aggregators,
and money management firms. Samawi was responsible for co-writing the business
plan, raising significant investment capital and building a world-class team at
Capstone. Samawi today retains partnership interest in Capstone as a passive
investor.
Prior to founding Capstone, Samawi built a career encompassing ten years on
Wall Street. As Vice president at Tullet & Tokyo in New York, Samawi founded
the Treasury Arbitrage Group later expanded and re-named the Tullet
Relative-Value Group. The Group's primary focus was monitoring a wide-range
of assets in search of promising arbitrage and inter-market spreading
opportunities. The Relative-Value group concentrated on volatility arbitrage
trades for fixed income assets in the United States, Germany, Japan and other
G-7 countries. While at Tullet, Samawi helped create the Treasury "Rate-Lock,"
which provided an efficient hedge for interest rate movements. Samawi also
co-designed the treasury option/swaption arbitrage model, and worked with
a technical modeling team at Tullet to integrate this feature into the Tullet
technology infrastructure.
Prior to his tenure at Tullet, Samawi served as Vice president at Intercapital
Brokers, inc. where he introduced the "resettable cap and floor" product to
the inter-dealer markets. This product proved to be a useful tool for interest
rate hedging, and was often embedded in retail oriented structured products.
Samawi holds a BA in International business and Economics from Texas Wesleyan
University and a certificate in E-Business strategies from the Thunderbird
Executive Education program. Samawi further completed continued education
programs at The New York Institute of finance for futures, yield curve arbitrage
and options, in addition to obtaining series 3 certification. Furthermore,
Samawi completed numerous energy power development, engineering, trading,
technology and derivative seminars both in the U.S and Europe. Samawi is also
a member of the Kilby awards international finance committee and an associate
member of the Association of Energy Engineers.
John E. Sherman
Sherman is the President at Pinnacle. Prior to
joining Pinnacle Sherman Founded and served as President of Eagle Energy Inc.,
John Sherman has spent the last twenty plus years as one of the nation's
leading authorities on the effective analysis, development, engineering,
construction and operations of power generation facilities around the world.
Under his direction, Eagle Energy has successfully led the design and development
of independent power projects ranging from 50kw internal combustion engine
generator sets to 600 MW gas turbine generator combined cycle power plants in
the United States and Mexico and the Middle East. Eagle established itself as
a leading provider of a broad range of services and expertise including economic
evaluation, site selection, fuel supply contracting, power purchase agreement
negotiation, system cycle definition, permit acquisition, equipment specifications
and selection, and development of turn-key plans for the complete life cycle of
power generation facilities.
In addition to his leadership role at Eagle, John serves in a special advisory
capacity to Sempra Energy Solutions assisting the company in their efforts to
identify and develop distributed generation and cogeneration opportunities.
Prior to founding Eagle Energy, Sherman served as President and Director of
Business Development of International Energy Services Co. Inc.,
(International ESCO). In his eight years at International ESCO, Sherman held
overall responsibility for engineering, project and construction management
services for the principle energy sector. International ESCO develops and
maintains facilities throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South
America.
Sherman has published numerous articles on power generation and the effective
management of power facilities, he also holds a patent for the Stoichiometric
Combustion Turbine System. John Sherman is a graduate of Columbia University
with a bachelors of science in mechanical engineering.
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