Brad Forth
Brad Forth has served as our Board Chair since October 2020 and as the Chair of our predecessor entity since July 2016. Mr. Forth has spent his entire career in the energy industry. Mr. Forth is a Senior Partner at Neos Partners, an investment firm he co-founded in June 2022 focusing on partnering with operating companies within the energy transition and critical infrastructure value chains. Mr. Forth was a Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”) from 2009 to 2016, after which he served as a Senior Advisor to Oaktree’s GFI Energy Group until March 2021, where he helped the team anticipate growth opportunities in the power, utility and energy sectors, and invest its capital in leading companies, helping management teams to accelerate the growth of their businesses. Mr. Forth had previously been a partner at GFI Energy Group from 2006 to 2009. During his time at Oaktree, and while serving as the Chairman of our Board, Mr. Forth served as our interim Chief Executive Officer for a portion of 2018. Mr. Forth began his career as a design engineer at Power Measurement, Inc. in 1988, where he was responsible for pioneering research in the field of digital power metering and energy management systems. Mr. Forth remained at Power Measurement in various capacities for 18 years, the last nine as its Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2005. Mr. Forth is currently the chairman of the board of directors for Shoals Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SHLS), a publicly traded company, and has been a member of its board since 2017. Mr. Forth received a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria in Canada. Mr. Forth was a winner of the 2002 Ernst and Young award for “Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year – Technology and Communications” and has been a member of Young Presidents’ Organization since 1998. Because of his long history and expertise in the energy industry, as well as his deep expertise with the solar industry, Mr. Forth is well qualified to serve on our Board.