Adam Nicolopoulos – President and Chief Executive Officer
Lisa Amini – Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Lisa has worked with ADN since its inception in 2007. In addition to managing ADN’s finance, tax, accounting, commercial, insurance and legal matters, she is integrally involved in developing corporate strategy and advising on management of corporate relationships, client mandates and projects.
Prior to working with ADN, Lisa worked in London for InterGen, a prominent international independent power project developer, owned by Bechtel and Shell at the time, which she joined in 1996 close the time of InterGen’s inception. While with InterGen, as Director of Finance for the Europe, Africa, Middle East and South West Asia regions, Lisa led efforts in the structuring and arranging of multimillion dollar project financings for independent power projects owned by InterGen. Most notably, she led the development of financing plans for InterGen’s successful bid for the 685 MW gas-fired Sidi Krir Power Project in Egypt and the arranging and negotiating the project’s financing and successful closing with international and local Egyptian banks. She also led efforts on the financing and successful closings of the 775 MW gas-fired Coryton Power Project in the UK and the 770 MW gas-fired Rocksavage Power Project in the UK, and the development of financing plans for InterGen’s successful bids for 3 major power projects in Turkey, among others.
Prior to her work with InterGen, from 1990 to 1996, Lisa worked for Bechtel Enterprises, the ownership and development arm of Bechtel, in San Francisco and then in London, where she led efforts on the development and implementation of commercial and financial structures for a variety of large projects internationally, including infrastructure, power generation, oil and gas and mining and metals projects.
Before Bechtel Enterprises, Lisa worked in highly leveraged transactions and corporate finance at Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS) after completing the training program there.
She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where she focused her studies on international finance, and she was awarded membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honors Society upon graduation for her outstanding academic performance. She also holds a BA in Biology from UC Santa Barbara, where she graduated with “highest honors”.
John Richter – Senior Advisor
Charles B. Golson – Senior Advisor
Stavroula Chorinou – Advisor
Raffi Mardirosian – Associate Advisor
Ahmed Sharif – Associate Advisor