Jeremy Ben-David is the President of SunRocket Capital where he drives the development and implementation of strategic plans and policies and steering the company towards achieving its long-term goals. He helps lead the development and execution of strategic business plans in collaboration with the CEO and the Board of Directors, oversees daily business operations, ensuring efficiency, quality, and cost-effective management of resources.

Derek Gabriel Sr. serves as Head of Originations of SunRocket Capital, a position through which he develops and manages relationships with developers and EPCs to meet their capital needs. Derek previously served as V.P. of Renewable Energy Lending and Business Development at National Cooperative Bank, where he managed residential, commercial and utility scale solar business development of over $500 million in assets nationwide. He brings 15 years of experience in solar development, origination, solar policy implementation, tax-equity structures, and debt-financing to the SunRocket Capital team.

Fractional CFO services provided by Guardian Vue Partners (GVP). GVP provides senior executive consulting expertise and fractional CFO services to SunRocket Capital. In this capacity, GVP is a strategic business partner responsible for evaluating, enhancing and executing on strategic direction, financial planning, reporting and accounting, and managing cash flows.

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Taimur Jamil is the Chief Investment Officer at SunRocket Capital. He brings over 18 years of expertise in financial markets, structured credit, credit risk, and underwriting to the firm. Before joining SunRocket Capital, he was Managing Director at Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate, a sustainable infrastructure platform acquired by MassMutual, which primarily provides PACE financing to property owners for energy efficiency improvements. Prior to that, he worked at Spruce Finance, a consumer lending platform for energy efficiency financing, where he helped develop and launch its residential PACE program, later managing the firm’s credit policy. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jamil was head of capital markets and asset management at Sol-Wind, a renewable energy YieldCo. Before that, he was a partner at Counterpointe Capital Management, a $250 million credit fund that invested in delinquent tax liens. He has also worked at Merrill Lynch in its principal finance group and at Moody’s Investors Service, where he was the lead analyst for esoteric assets. He began his career as a software engineer at Cambridge Technology Partners.

Chris Clayton joined SunRocket Capital as senior counsel in June 2022. Prior to joining SunRocket Capital, Chris was Senior Vice President and Managing Counsel at CoBank, ACB, the largest bank in the federal Farm Credit System, with approximately $135 billion in assets. At CoBank, Chris led the bank’s legal and loan processing division, a team of 70+ attorneys, paralegals, and other associates responsible for the negotiation and documentation of all loans made by the bank in all business areas, including agribusiness, rural infrastructure (electric distribution, generation and transmission, energy project finance, telecommunications, and water), trade structured finance, and equipment leasing. Before joining CoBank, Chris was an associate and later counsel at Bingham McCutchen LLP, an international law firm, where he was a member of the firm’s Financial Services and Financial Restructuring groups. He represented financial institutions, as well as a captive lender of a large aircraft manufacturer, in a variety of lending transactions and restructurings. Chris graduated summa cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law and has an undergraduate degree in International Affairs from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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