Bio

Thiago Alfaia, Managing Director for Marathon Capital, is responsible for executing M&A and private placement engagements in the energy sector. Mr. Alfaia has been involved with the energy and infrastructure markets since 2003. At Marathon Capital, he has worked on several significant wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal financing and M&A transactions. He also led one of Marathon’s landmark transactions: the successful equity capital raise and project financing of Mexico Power Group’s La Bufa 1 Wind Farm. Other noteworthy transactions are the sale of Suzlon’s 240 MW Big Sky Project to EverPower, the equity and construction financing of the 30 MW Patua Geothermal Project, the sale of Coram Energy Group’s 124 MW portfolio of operating wind projects in California to Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, and the sale of Central Hudson’s Shirley Wind Project to Duke Energy. He has previously worked in various project finance and M&A assignments in the Brazilian energy industry including the valuation and sale processes of an electricity transmission company, a 300 MW coal and gas-fired thermal power generation project, and a 600 MW hydropower plant. Mr. Alfaia is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Society and received his MBA with high honors and with concentrations in Accounting, Analytic Finance, and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago. Mr. Alfaia holds his Series 7 and 63 licenses.