Jeffery A. Spencer, CPA, President, Executive Consultant

Mr. Spencer is an experienced Chief Financial Officer with a background in domestic and international financial management and strategy development in capital-intensive industry.   Most recently Mr. Spencer has been involved in developing a start-up enterprise focused on Battery Energy Storage and part-time and interim CFO roles . Previously, Mr. Spencer served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Essential Power, LLC, an independent power generator in Princeton, NJ.  Previously Mr. Spencer was CFO of a start-up alternative transportation fuels provider, Prometheus Energy Company of Seattle; Assistant Treasurer of Koch Industries, Inc.; CFO of Koch subsidiary, Koch Performance Roads; CFO for the Northeast Region of Mirant Corp.; Assistant Treasurer at Southern Company; and Vice President and CFO of a publicly listed company in Chile, Empresa Eléctrica del Norte Grande, S. A. (EDELNOR), and a Southern Company subsidiary . 

Mr. Spencer's M&A transactional experience includes the $21 billion acquisition of Georgia Pacific by Koch Industries in 2006; the $3.8 billion acquisition and $7.6 billion financial restructuring of Hyder PLC by Southern subsidiary, Western Power Distribution in 2000; the $1.8 billion acquisition of SouthWestern Electricity, PLC by Southern Company in 1995; and the $35 million acquisition of an interest in Freeport Power Company (Bahamas) by Southern Company in 1993.

Mr. Spencer's financing execution experience includes the $665 million revolving and term loan refinancing and $205 million bond tender offer for Essential Power in 2012; the 144A offering of $205 million of bonds for Essential Power in 2009; a $15 million convertible loan for Prometheus Energy in 2007; $15 billion acquisition financing for the Georgia Pacific acquisition; $2 billion credit agreement extension for Koch Industries in 2005; and numerous other public, private, bank and capital markets offerings, project financings, leases and interest rate risk management transactions.

Mr. Spencer holds a Master of Professional Accountancy from  Georgia State University, and a Bachelor of Science Business Administration - Finance from the University of Florida.