Tobey Susan Collins Chief Financial Officer
Tobey joined Verdeo Group in 2010 as its Chief Financial Officer. In addition to overseeing all internal finance operations, Tobey is very involved in all investment management activities including project due diligence, contract negotiations and fundraising.
Prior to joining Verdeo, Tobey was Chief Financial Officer of AES Gener, S.A., the second largest electricity generation company in Chile. Tobey has extensive experience in transactional finance in the electricity sector, financing both development projects as well as established companies in the generation, transmission and distribution sectors. At Gener, Tobey's primary focus was raising capital to fund Gener's extensive expansion plan. In this capacity, she oversaw two new equity issuances, three corporate debt facilities and the closing of a $1 billion non-recourse project-financing for the Angamos Project in northern Chile, which was awarded the "Americas Power Deal of the Year" for 2008 by Project Finance International.
Prior to Gener, Tobey worked at the AES Corporation (Gener's controlling shareholder) based in Arlington, VA. While at AES, Tobey worked in several transactional roles focused on AES' electricity generation and distribution businesses in Latin America. She oversaw multiple 144A bond issuances, equity offerings in Brazil and in the US, as well as a series of debt and equity restructuring transactions AES' multiple businesses in Brazil. Before working at AES, Tobey worked in the Private Sector Department at the InterAmerican Development Bank focused on electricity transmission and generation assets in Argentina and in ABN AMRO Bank's Project Finance group based in Caracas, Venezuela and in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tobey began her career in project finance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Tobey holds a B.A. in Government magna cum laude from Harvard University and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
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