He heads Capital Markets and Finance and is a Member of the Investment Committee. With 30+ years of experience, he manages new financial product design, institutional investor partnerships and their long-term off-take agreements, banking facilities, rating agencies, and other strategic relationships. Jim has structured and directly sourced billions of dollars in structured finance products from institutional investor partners.

Prior to starting Petros, Jim was the CFO & COO of Enhanced Capital Partners, a national, private asset management and investment firm. While there, Jim structured an array of transactions with Berkshire Hathaway and other institutional investors and financial partners. He started and was the Co-Head of the firm’s Tax Credit Monetization business, sourced and managed investments for the firm, and was on the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Enhanced Capital, Jim worked with Reservoir Capital Group, a $6 billion New York-based private investment firm. He held senior positions at Fortune 50 companies, Dell and Procter & Gamble, prior to Reservoir.

Jim holds a BS in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from SMU in Dallas. Jim is a member of the Cockrell School of Engineering Advisory Board at the University of Texas at Austin and a board member of the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation (Texas PSFC). Texas PSFC manages the Texas Permanent School Fund, a $56 billion public endowment of the State of Texas, formed in 1845 for the benefit of Texas public schools.