Our Team

Heather Barone serves as Vice President of Environmental Affairs at Arevon. Barone brings more than 25 years of experience in environmental permitting and federal compliance, as well as leadership skills honed from managing cross-disciplinary teams supporting energy development across North America.

Barone joined Arevon in 2025 and leads federal permitting, environmental compliance, and risk management across the company’s greenfield development, construction, and operating projects. She oversees the Environmental Affairs team and directs permitting strategy, agency engagement, and due diligence for development and M&A activities, while ensuring adherence to local, state, and federal regulations.

Prior to working at Arevon, Barone began her career at Tetra Tech EC (formerly Foster Wheeler) as a Project Manager and Engineer, managing large wetland restoration and environmental remediation efforts, as well as federal and state permitting programs across Florida. She then spent 12 years at NextEra Energy Resources (formerly FPL Energy) as a Senior Environmental Advisor, driving environmental strategy and permitting for solar, wind, and energy storage projects nationwide. Most recently, Barone served as Head of Environmental and Permitting at Enel Green Power North America, overseeing due diligence and permitting strategies for a diverse portfolio of greenfield development, operational, and M&A energy projects.

Barone received an Environmental Engineering, Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University, which included one year at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where she studied Environmental Law and Water Resource Management.

Daniel Casement serves as Vice President of Market Operations and Structuring at Arevon. With more than 15 years of experience in power and commodity markets, Casement is adept at developing trading strategies to maximize revenue and managing exposure to market prices.

Casement joined Arevon in 2021 and has since led the management of the company’s 1+ gigawatt (GW) merchant solar and energy storage portfolio.

Prior to working at Arevon, Casement was employed at sPower for more than two years, where he oversaw the Structuring and Analytics team and helped close more than 1 GW of solar and energy storage deals. He also worked at AES for eight years in various commercial and risk management roles with a focus on merchant generation assets.

Casement holds a Bachelor’s in Accounting and Law from the University of Manchester, England.

Josh Coon serves as Vice President of Development at Arevon. Coon is practiced in all stages of the renewable energy project lifecycle — including greenfield development, project design, permitting, and construction — and brings a decade of experience to his role in moverseeing development strategy and project execution.

Coon joined Arevon in 2020, previously serving in various leadership positions on the Development team within the company. Presently, Coon leads a team responsible for the full scope of development activities for a robust portfolio of Arevon’s Western region assets — from project inception to pre-construction. Over the course of his tenure at the company, Coon has been responsible for approximately 30 projects and has successfully completed the development of more than 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of energy storage assets.

Prior to working at Arevon, Coon spent four years developing utility-scale wind and solar projects at EDP Renewables. Throughout his career, Coon has managed the development of more than 1.9 GW of solar and wind and more than 7 gigawatt hours hours of energy storage.

Coon holds a Bachelor of Science in Energy Engineering from Pennsylvania State University with a focus on renewable energy technologies.

Trish Evans serves as Vice President of Community Relations at Arevon. With more than 20 years of experience in community and stakeholder relations, Evans is adept at building public support and stakeholder trust for utility-scale renewable energy projects.

Evans joined Arevon in 2024, and her expertise has been instrumental in developing Arevon’s community engagement framework. She leads a team responsible for the planning, coordination, and activation of community and stakeholder engagement for Arevon’s solar, energy storage, and solar-plus-storage portfolio across the United States.

Prior to Arevon, Evans worked at Enel North America as the first dedicated Senior Community Affairs Partner. She has deep roots in farming and rural environments, having worked with local, state, and federal programs for Conservation Districts and United States Department of Agriculture programs earlier in her career.

Katherine Gensler serves as Vice President of Government Affairs and Marketing for Arevon, leading the company’s strategic engagement with federal and statement government officials and crafting the Arevon message for a wide variety of external audiences, from financial partners to community stakeholders.

Previously, Gensler spent 13 years with the Solar Energy Industries Association, expanding its advocacy before Congress and the Administration on behalf of the U.S. solar industry. She also served as an energy analyst at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where she advised the Commission on electricity and natural gas policies throughout the west.

Gensler holds a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin. Committed to educating the next generation of energy leaders, she serves on the Board of Visitors of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

Erik Goedeke serves as Deputy General Counsel at Arevon. Goedeke possesses nearly 15 years of experience across renewable energy, construction contracting, project development, procurement, and broader infrastructure transactions.

Goedeke joined Arevon in 2021 and has been instrumental in guiding the company’s legal work on complex commercial and project matters. He advises on procurement, construction, development, origination, operations, mergers and acquisitions, and disputes, leading a team of lawyers supporting those functions. His work includes negotiating major engineering, procurement, and construction agreements for solar, energy storage, and hybrid assets, while helping the company navigate evolving tariff requirements and other market developments.

Prior to working at Arevon, Goedeke spent nine years at EDP Renewables North America, where he advanced from contracts and procurement roles into a counsel position supporting wind, solar, and energy storage projects. Over the course of his tenure, he negotiated construction and supply contracts, supported build-transfer agreements, advised on disputes and risk management, and worked closely with internal teams on development, operations, and transaction execution.

Goedeke holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Baylor University.

Eric Huswick serves as Vice President of Finance at Arevon. Huswick oversees the company’s Development Accounting and Tax functions and works closely with the Mergers and Acquisitions and Project Finance divisions.

Huswick joined Arevon in 2019, and has built a formidable team, strategically insourcing the knowledge base and skillsets needed to support the company. He also played a key role in Arevon’s Inflation Reduction Act implementation, including corporate and transaction restructurings.

Prior to working at Arevon, Huswick was employed at Deloitte for five years, focusing on global tax reporting, audit, and compliance for large multinationals as well as real estate and financial institutions.

Huswick is a certified public accountant. He earned a Master of Taxation from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Business Administration with an Accounting concentration from the University of Washington.

Sarah Kalin serves as Deputy General Counsel at Arevon. Ms. Kalin has more than 10 years of experience advising sponsors, financial institutions, and investors on project development, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and other complex energy and infrastructure transactions.

Ms. Kalin joined Arevon in 2024, and has played a key role in strengthening the company’s in-house legal capabilities during a period of significant growth. In her position, she helps manage legal, compliance, and structural risk across Arevon’s expansive portfolio of solar, energy storage, and hybrid assets, with a particular focus on corporate governance and the company’s financing transactions, both at a project and corporate level.

Prior to working at Arevon, Ms. Kalin gained extensive industry experience in both private practice and in-house roles. She was most recently a Counsel in the Energy and Infrastructure Projects group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. She also previously served as Senior Legal Counsel at Brookfield Renewable U.S.

Ms. Kalin holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Chemical Physics, summa cum laude, from Tufts University.

Nimmi Kavasery serves as Managing Director of Project Finance at Arevon. Kavasery has more than 15 years of project finance experience, including over a decade of successfully executing renewable energy transactions.

Kavasery joined Arevon in 2024, and presently, she oversees the negotiation and execution of project financings and tax credit transfers, as well as the structuring of tax equity and preferred equity partnerships. Since stepping into her role, Kavasery and her team have closed multiple financing packages, securing over $5.1 billion in project financing and advancing multiple gigawatts of solar and energy storage capacity.

Prior to working at Arevon, Kavasery spent 10 years at Bank of America, where she co-led the Bank’s tax credit syndication desk and underwrote the tax equity investments. Preceding Bank of America, Kavasery held various equity and debt underwriting roles at GE Capital – Energy Financial Services.

Kavasery earned an MBA in Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an AB Degree in International Development from Brown University.

Lydia Li serves as Director of Investment at Arevon. Li is practiced in originating, evaluating, and executing on investments to successfully advance solar and energy storage portfolios.

Li joined Arevon in 2021, and presently, she co-leads mergers and acquisitions, including the purchase of projects, portfolios, and platforms. Her team is responsible for underwriting Arevon’s development pipeline and operating projects, as well as assisting with the company’s capital allocation strategy and valuation for the entire platform.

Prior to working at Arevon, Li was an investor at Generate Capital for two years, where she led sustainable infrastructure investments with a focus on renewable power, hydrogen, and mobility. She also worked for several years at Commonfund Capital as a private equity investor in natural resources and at Macquarie Capital as an investment banker.

Li earned an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Economics from Claremont McKenna College.

Brindavani Malladi serves as Vice President of Interconnection at Arevon. Malladi brings to her role more than 20 years of experience in strategic transmission planning, interconnection, and market assessments for new energy projects across the U.S.

Malladi joined Arevon in 2019, previously serving in various leadership positions on the Transmission and Interconnection teams within the company. Presently, Malladi’s technically advanced team is heavily involved in transmission and interconnection evaluations, mergers and acquisitions, greenfield project selection and assessments, energy storage augmentation analysis and approvals, and operational fleet management.

Prior to working at Arevon, Malladi spent 13 years at the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) Interconnection, where she led generation interconnection, deactivation, and transmission expansion studies with an emphasis on process improvements. She worked closely with project managers to navigate the interconnection process and execute all the necessary interconnection agreements. She has also authored and published technical papers on congestion pricing and the interconnection process.

Malladi earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

Chris Matthews serves as Vice President of Development at Arevon, bringing more than a decade of experience in overseeing development strategy and project execution.

Matthews joined Arevon in 2021, previously serving in various leadership positions on the Development team within the company. Presently, he leads a team responsible for the full scope of development activities — from project inception to pre-construction — for assets in Arevon’s Midwest and Eastern regions. Matthews and his team have brought nearly 1.2 gigawatts of projects to construction for Arevon, with more capacity expected to enter construction in the years to come.

Prior to joining Arevon, Matthews was a Senior Project Development Manager at AES Clean Energy, where he led greenfield development and permitting of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects as well as distributed generation assets in New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) and Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM). Earlier in his career, he spent several years developing utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage projects as well as distributed generation assets at EDP Renewables and Greensmith Energy.

Matthews holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geophysics from Virginia Tech University.

Nick Maynard serves as Vice President of Engineering at Arevon. Maynard has more than 15 years of experience in engineering, construction, finance, and project management, focusing on large commercial and utility-scale projects in the United States and Guam.

Maynard joined Arevon in 2021, previously serving in various leadership positions on the Engineering and Construction teams within the company. Presently, Maynard’s team’s responsibilities include solar and storage energy modeling, project design, quality assurance and quality control analysis, weekly reporting, commissioning, and the financial close-out efforts for the independent engineer.

Before joining Arevon, Maynard served in various roles for NRG Energy. Throughout his career, he has supported the development and construction of more than 4.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar and 1.5 GW/5.4 gigawatt hours of energy storage projects.

Maynard obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Emily Petrocy serves as Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis at Arevon. Petrocy has more than a decade of experience in financial planning and modeling, forecasting, strategic growth, and investor-facing analysis.

Petrocy joined Arevon in 2021, and has played a key role in building and expanding the company’s financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function. In her current position, she supports long-term growth scenario modeling and valuation initiatives, while translating the company’s strategic priorities into annual budgets, forecasts, and performance metrics. She also oversees financial analysis related to Arevon’s development portfolio, capital allocation, and broader corporate planning efforts.

Prior to working at Arevon, Petrocy held finance and FP&A positions at Embark Behavioral Health and HEPACO, where she managed budgeting and forecasting, KPI development, growth planning, mergers and acquisitions integration, and financial reporting. Earlier in her career, she held accounting and finance roles at CORMETECH, Driven Brands, and Northwestern Mutual.

Petrocy is a Certified Public Accountant. She earned a Master of Accountancy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Bachelor of Science from the University of South Carolina Honors College, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Tina Raether is the Vice President of Accounting at Arevon where she provides technical and operational leadership across the accounting and financial reporting functions.

Prior to joining Arevon, Raether was an Assurance Director at PwC within the Asset and Wealth Management practice with more than 13 years of public accounting experience. Her responsibilities included leading both public and private audit engagements, business development, recruiting, and learning and development course facilitation.

Raether graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University with a Master of Science in Accountancy and a certificate in International Business. She is an active CPA in Arizona and a member of the AICPA and Arizona Society of CPAs.

Deirdra Redmon serves as Treasurer at Arevon. Redmon brings to her role more than 13 years of treasury and public accounting experience, overseeing the financial well-being of large-scale renewable energy companies.

Redmon joined Arevon in 2022, previously serving in various leadership positions on the Finance team within the company. Presently, Redmon manages corporate liquidity, maintains banking partnerships, and leads the structuring and raising of corporate and non-project sources of capital.

Prior to working at Arevon, Redmon spent more than six years as a member of the Treasury team at First Solar, with four of those years as Assistant Treasurer, leading corporate and manufacturing financing.

Redmon is a certified public accountant. She holds a Master’s in Accountancy and a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Joseph Santo serves as Managing Director of Investment at Arevon. With over 15 years of experience in equity investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), Santo focuses on thesis-driven investing in renewable energy infrastructure assets. To date, Santo has underwritten over $7 billion of invested capital in renewable energy assets including project financing transactions.

Santo joined Arevon in 2021 and is responsible for company and investment strategy and originating, underwriting, and executing investments to acquire, develop, and build utility-scale solar and energy storage assets. Projects include Condor Energy Storage, a Proximo Energy Storage Deal of the Year award-winning project, and Vikings Solar-plus-Storage, an IJGlobal Renewables Deal of the Year and Proximo Solar Deal of the Year award-winning project, and the first solar peaker plant in the U.S.

Prior to working at Arevon, Santo spent four years in an M&A role at NextEra Energy Resources, where he was responsible for M&A, evaluating and investing in distributed generation, solar, energy storage, fuel cells, hydrogen, and mobility. Preceding NextEra, he worked as a venture investor at GE Ventures where he was focused on investment opportunities in energy storage, mobility, and grid optimization. Earlier in his career, Santo was an attorney at the private equity and mergers and acquisitions practice group Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he assisted clients on more than $80 billion of transactions.

Santo holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government from Dartmouth College. He serves on the Board of Directors for The Guardsmen, a Bay Area non-profit organization that sponsors children from underserved communities for scholarships and camping programs.

Paul Smerchanski serves as Vice President of Origination at Arevon. Smerchanski focuses on building relationships with offtakers for solar and energy storage projects as well as finding new customers for projects in development.

Smerchanski joined Arevon in 2021, and has been closely involved in analyzing market trends — from customer demand for renewables and evolving regulations to corporate sustainability goals and utility decarbonization efforts.

Prior to working at Arevon, Smerchanski gained nearly a decade of experience in the renewable energy industry. He spent three years at Origis Energy, where he played a key role in growing the company’s energy storage portfolio from just 2 megawatt hours to nearly 1 gigawatt hour of executed offtake agreements. Earlier in his career, he was employed at Recurrent Energy in Canada and was responsible for the permitting, interconnection, and financial modeling for solar projects in Ontario.

Smerchanski holds an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba.

Jo Svendblad serves as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Arevon. Svendblad has more than 20 years of experience scaling human resources (HR) functions, building high-performing teams, and aligning talent strategies with business objectives to support organizational growth.

Svendblad joined Arevon in 2024, previously serving as Executive HR Advisor, and has played an integral role in shaping the company’s hiring practices, compensation and benefits programs, and career advancement initiatives. In her role, she oversees the HR department, including Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development, with a focus on strengthening workplace culture, employee engagement, and cross-functional collaboration. Svendblad is also a certified Executive Coach and trusted advisor to senior leaders.

Prior to working at Arevon, Svendblad spent five years at Uphold as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief People Officer, where she helped advance HR infrastructure and enterprise priorities. Earlier in her career, she held HR executive positions across technology, financial services, and venture-backed companies, leading global initiatives involving mergers and acquisitions, workforce expansion, and organizational development.

Svendblad holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Linguistics from San José State University.