West Owens

West Owens is the Senior Vice President of Finance and Structuring. West specializes in opening up new asset classes to scalable capital market financing, including solar, distributed energy resources (DER) and virtual power plants (VPP). In his new role at TeraWatt, Owens will be responsible for setting the capital strategy and execution for the Company, including the creation of deal structures, nurturing relationships with and managing investors, and the buildout of a financing platform. Owens has advised multiple early stage energy companies, including OhmConnect, where he structured the first residential VPP financing across thousands of homes. As vice president of structured finance at SolarCity, a company acquired by Tesla, West raised more than $2 billion in diversified capital and securitized the first solar service agreements and loans in the asset-backed security market. He has also served as CFO at Future Family, where he brought the first large scale financing facility to fertility treatments, a chronically underserved market, and he served as CFO and COO at Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS), where he financed the first large scale portfolio of energy storage DERs worth more than $200 million. Owens holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton.