Transaction Advisor

John Irwin

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Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Business and financial advisor/consultant, investment banker and bond trader with 30 years of experience in domestic and international capital markets. Recent career highlights include providing financial services to renewable energy (fuels, solar, wind, battery storage and biomass) developers, project finance and structured finance transactions. Analyze and recommend financial solutions to complicated businesses seeking to raise additional debt or equity capital, merger & acquisition assistance, and operational improvements.

EXPERIENCE

President

Structured Securities Solutions, LLC 5/13 to Present

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Provide financial and operational advice on sophisticated, multifaceted transactions and businesses in a wide variety of industries domestically and internationally. Led end-to-end development and financing of project finance opportunities including renewable and traditional oil & gas projects, infrastructure projects, and healthcare opportunities.

-Prepare and develop various marketing and analytical tools including PowerPoint and pitch book presentations to potential investor/lender groups.

-Design and analyze financial cash flow models (Excel) to optimize a capital structure and maximize IRR.

-Designed and implemented hedging programs including options and futures to provide cash flow stability among a variety of commodities and currencies to minimize project risks.

-Negotiated legal documentation including bond indentures, prospectuses, pooling and servicing agreements, Limited Liability Agreements (LLC), feedstock contracts, operation and management (O&M) agreements, engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and final product offtake agreements.

Partner

Woodstone Custom Builders, LLC 5/07 to 1/13

Summit, NJ

Luxury home development company responsible for the purchase, construction and marketing of high-end custom homes in the New Jersey residential market.

-Responsible for land acquisition, bank relations, weekly budget review, monitoring and supervising construction process.

-Led relationship efforts with local planning boards for construction permitting, town engineer approvals on each stage of construction, and marketing with realtors to sell the finished properties.

Partner & Portfolio Manager, Hedge Fund

Beacon Hill Asset Management, LLC 1/97 to 2/06

Summit, NJ

Institutional fixed income hedge fund managing $2 billion of capital in a wide variety of financial assets for a large group of domestic and international investors.

-Responsible for the assembly, marketing and ongoing management of three Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) transactions totaling $900 million in the public fixed income markets.

-Collateral used to construct the CDO transactions required the full understanding in multiple asset sectors including residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), Home Equity Securities (HELOC), Manufactured Housing Backed Bonds, Credit Cards and Auto Loan Backed transactions.

-Traveled and led international marketing effort for each CDO transaction to investors with First Boston Corp. and Bank of America, N.A. as our lead broker/dealer.

Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Hedge Fund

Clinton Group, Inc. 2/96 to 1/97

New York, NY

Analyzed, traded and managed $1+ billion fixed income portfolios of AAA rated assets in a leveraged format for a wide range of institutional domestic and international investors.

-Hired to introduce, develop, and manage non-AAA rated investments across multiple investor portfolios to attract and grow potential new investor assets under management (AUM) opportunities.

-Grew non-AAA investments to between 3% and 5% of $1+ billion multiple portfolios.

Vice President, Fixed income Trader

Morgan Stanley & Co. 9/94 to 2/96

New York, NY

Responsible for managing ongoing $175 million mortgage-backed (MBS) securities position including investment grade and non-investment grade securities for institutional investors.

-Exceeded profit/loss expectations by over 20+% annually.

-Developed unique trading arbitrage opportunities through a combination of various types of securities through creative investment banking and legal techniques.

Vice President, Fixed Income Trader Prudential Securities, Inc. (PSI) 7/92 to 9/94

New York, NY

Marketed, managed, traded, and hedged up to a $150 million ongoing investment grade and non-investment grade mortgage-backed securities (MBS) position to a large group of diversified institutional investors including insurance companies, pension funds, money managers and hedge funds.

-Exceeded budgeted profit/loss expectations by over 25+% annually.

-Developed marketing program with salesforce aimed at expanding the potential customer base for my product.

-Doubled the number of investors during two-year tenure.

Assistant Vice President, Banker

Financial Security Assurance Holdings, LLC (FSA) 5/90 to 7/92

New York, NY

Sourced and managed over 30+ transactions to financial close including complex taxable and tax-exempt fixed income transactions primarily in the mortgaged backed (MBS) and asset backed (ABS) securities markets.

-Created, developed, and implemented a revolutionary new AAA Guarantee Secondary Securities (TAGSS) program for the secondary mortgage backed (MBS) and asset backed securities (ABS) market. Closed over $1 billion in transactions.

Assistant Vice President, Rating Analyst

Standard & Poor’s & Co. 8/87 to 5/90

New York, NY

Managed and closed over 70+ taxable and tax-exempt fixed income transactions through the appropriate ratings agency financial and legal review process.

-Developed and published new ratings criteria used extensively in the multi-trillion-dollar mortgage backed (MBS) and asset backed (ABS) markets for traditional loan originators and RTC (Resolution Trust Corporation) transactions.

-Authored periodic transaction summary pieces and new rating agency criteria in bi-monthly S&P research publications.

EDUCATION

Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Finance (MBA)

Master Of Business Administration (MBA)

Graduated: 1986

Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Undergraduate Economics (BA),

Graduated: 1982 Mathematics (BA)

The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ

Graduated: 1978

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