ROSS J. TYLER Tel: +1 202 361 0203 – Email: RossJTyler@gmail.com

PROFILE SUMMARY & KEY QUALIFICATIONS: • Clean energy policies, program design and supply-chain development • Business development, strategy design & proposal writing• Market and economic & supply chain development • Marketing Channels

EDUCATION: • MBA., Canterbury Business School, University of Kent, UK (1991-92)• Accounting, University of California, Irvine, USA (1989)• B.Sc. in Chemistry with Honors, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. (1977-81)

SECTOR EXPERIENCE: Clean Energy & Climate / Finance; International Economic Development; International Trade; Consulting; & Water and Natural Resources

COUNTRY EXPERIENCE Australia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico Russia, Rep. of Georgia, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Venezuela, USA and Ukraine.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2012-Present: International Offshore Renewable Energy LLC • Co-founder of the Caribbean Offshore Renewable Energy Initiative (www.CarribbeanORE.com) with the goal of

establishing an offshore renewable energy technology test and demonstration center for offshore wind, wave & tidal and OTEC as a practical step to build upon government financed evaluations that have provided theoretical pathways for Small Island Development States (SIDS) to transform from fossil fueled energy to renewable energy generation. - Developing tool-box for ocean energy test center site evaluation - Modeling commercially viable mixed technology center with grid connection

• Exploring the viability of a ‘relocatable semi-submersible’ foundation as a PPP or commercial venture for multiple uses including offshore resource characterization (wind & wave directions and speeds); calibration services for emerging technologies (LIDAR) and aquaculture.

Network for Offshore Wind (BizMDOSW.org) • Co-managing with focus on:

- Strategy - US Supply chain development - Power procurement

2012-2015: Maryland Energy Administration, Director of Offshore Wind Development Fund • Provided strategic guidance and oversight for $32 million of publicly managed funds to accelerate an offshore

wind industry by: - Directing State Government activities to facilitate the the private sector clusters development created under the

Business Network for Offshore Wind - Fostering international agreements of cooperation with Denmark, Germany, France and the UK with a

coordinated range of activities to de-risk and lower barriers in support offshore wind development

ROSS J. TYLER- Designing scopes of work for competitive bids to address potential barriers in establishing an offshore wind

industry that lead to practical and financially viable solutions (ocean bed geophysical survey; port infrastructure; and supply chain)

- Defining and issued competitive grants to launch academic institutions with relevant research experience into stimulating innovation for commercialization in the US and Europe

- Designing initiatives to support offshore wind i) workforce development and skills development and ii) early manufacturing.

2010-2012: Clean Energy Group, Executive Director of UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Alliance • Secured funding from BMU (Germany) to expand the coordination of sharing best practices between public

funding entities of different national governmental initiatives that support clean energy in preparation for global climate funds for mitigation and adaptation

• Lead consultant to International Energy Agency and author of ‘Financing large-scale deployments of renewable energy’ (http://iea-retd.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/111205-FINANCE-RE-Final-Report.pdf)

• Proposal writing, project work for publication and domestic consulting services covering a range of clean energy interests including: finding a new path to generate funds for large scale renewable energy deployments; translating the potential of clean energy economic development into quantifiable increased access to finance for life-style wealth in rural America including the Appalachian region

• Team leader for national initiative modeling an ‘aggregated procurement’ to simulate large demand with the goal of reduced unit cost of electricity for US offshore wind energy

• Created a business coalition as a ‘new voice’ to support legislative support for a 20 year finance mechanism to de-risk offshore wind (www.BizMDOSW.org)

• Provided oversight and co-directed the US DoE marine hydro-kinetics program (Wave energy) and designed proposals to fund feasibility studies for marine energy in Chile and Vietnam.

2008-2010: Maryland Energy Administration, Director of Clean Energy • Provided team leadership and management with oversight for $35 million public funding for Maryland's small,

medium and utility wind, solar PV and hot water, geothermal, biomass, and transportation and alternative fuels• Developed the state’s ‘Sunburst Solar’ program that used Federal stimulus fund to offset the initial costs for

Maryland’s solar projects as progressive strategy to significantly increase solar deployment Coordinated the first statewide government procurement of utility scale renewable energy to jump-start the market as a way to scale and meet the state’s renewable portfolio standard (20% by 2022) and bring environmental attributes with job creation benefits

• Designed and developed a Clean Energy Economic Development Initiative to bolster existing Maryland companies and attract new companies to the state and worked to advance clean energy on a regional basis as well as with other Eastern Seaboard

2007-2008: Delaware Economic Development Office, Director of Market Development • Responsible for managing a team of specialists charged with company retention, new business recruitment and

implementing cluster models in a suite of traditional industries all supplemented by a renewable energy sector economic development initiative targeting European and other companies to locate in the state.

2002-2007: Founder of i-DevGlobal LLC (economic development for transitioning markets)

• Wrote, secured proposals and executed awarded World Bank Project: utilizing the principles of franchising to transfer business know-how from larger successful water utility operators to the struggling small-town water utilities often lacking business acumen, drawing first-hand experience from Tanzania and India and to form a business planning manual that could be used with global application

• Designed and implemented grant awards from:

- US Department of Commerce – Designed project and secured funding to promote US franchised businesses and other U.S. small businesses into the ASEAN region using Thailand as a gateway

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ROSS J. TYLER- US Department of State – Designed and managed project that sought ways to reduce non-tariff barriers for all business sizes to improve inter-ASEAN trade for regional competitiveness - Developed the US Thailand Business Council’s strategy and coordinated the Council’s development with the President, the Board of Directors and the Corporate Members to implement

- The formation of the US-Thailand Inter-parliamentary Forum as a legal body in which Members of Congress could meet Thai officials for better understanding to promote trade and investment

- Liaison with the Royal Thai Government including former Prime Minister Thaksin’s office with members of Congress and organized topical events in Washington and in Bangkok for visiting Thai officials and to provide dialogue on the proposed US-Thailand Trade Agreement.

1997-2002: SIBLEY International Corp., V.P.-International Operations, Washington, DC • Responsible for the management of multiple million dollar (US AID) projects for: Republic of Georgia’s

Enterprise Support Program and Armenia’s Accounting Reform and Ukraine’s entrepreneur development• Implemented global marketing channel strategy development program for private sector satellite communications

company (ICO) with trials in rural Brazil, India and Russia.

Independent and I*F Consulting, Principal Consultant, Australia & UK • Secured consulting contracts and oversaw strategy formulation & implementation for international expansions

using new marketing channel third party approach with design, structure and management for blue-chip clients including; Motorola, Orange Telecommunications, Waterstone’s, Imperial Chemicals Incorporated, British Road Services, NCR, AGA AB of Sweden

• Provided consulting based services involving international strategies for: International Franchise Association –assisting US Franchisors seeking foreign expansion; Polymer Reclaim & Exchange NC., Euro-American/Elias Brothers, AZ – assisted introduction of US food franchise into Eastern Europe; Cadworks Inc., VA – seeking entry into the investigated the European market. Plastilux, Belgium – provided market assessment and market entry strategy for entering the US.

Courtaulds Ltd., UK & USA and Klockner Pentaplast of America, USA • Business Development Manager for a suite of chemicals, plastics, packaging equipment and services.

LANGUAGES:

• German and Russian.

DUEL CITIZENSHIP: • American and British.

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