Joseph C. Brandt

co-founded ContourGlobal and has served as ContourGlobal’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2005 and is a member of its Board of Directors.

He has led development and operations in the global electric utility industry in Europe, the Americas and Africa for nearly two decades. Prior to co-founding ContourGlobal in 2005, Mr. Brandt worked at The AES Corporation, an international power company, from 1999 to 2005, serving as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer. At AES, Mr. Brandt’s responsibilities included management of the company’s global utility operations in the Americas, Africa and Eastern Europe. He served on the board of directors of many of AES’s key subsidiaries, including AES Gener in Chile where he was Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brandt received a B.A. from George Mason University, a M.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Brandt also attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow at Helsinki University in Finland.