As Chief Investment Officer, Bert Hunter leads the development of new and innovative financing programs. With a mission to attract and deploy private capital for clean energy to Connecticut, the Green Bank has:Attracted more than $85 MM of private capital for Connecticut’s residential programs including a Solar Lease Fund, a Solar Loan fund and “Smart-E” Clean Energy Loan program using structures with tax equity, non-recourse financing, loan loss reserves and “crowd funding”;Structured a subordinated secured loan that facilitated the development of the largest fuel cell project outside South Korea ($70MM / 15 MW); andAuctioned a portfolio of Commercial PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) loans totaling nearly $10 MM to private capital providers (with access to up to $30 MM)Arranged a commitment for $100 MM from Hannon Armstrong to fund the Green Bank’s commercial PACE program, recognized as the leading C-PACE program in the nation.Arranging New CREBs financing for “run of river” hydroelectric facilities and potentially solar PV for state and municipal facilities.Before joining the Green Bank, Bert was VP Finance and CFO of Spectrum Capital, Ltd, an investment bank focused on global commercial aircraft finance and investment in US electric power generation. Prior to Spectrum, Bert was VP and treasurer of the international leasing company of Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) where he managed the funding for a billion-dollar portfolio of aircraft and equipment loans outside the USA.Bert has an MBA from The Wharton School and a BS in Mathematics and Economics from Wake Forest University.