Our Experienced Team of Executives and Board of Directors Perfect Us.

Our leadership team have a combined experience of 60 years + in the sector.

Board of Directors

Sara Graziano

Board Member

Sara joined SER Capital Partners in 2019 and serves as Partner and Chair of the Investment Committee. In this role, Sara is responsible for investment origination and execution and portfolio management. Sara has 17 years of experience in the energy storage, power, renewable, and environmental sectors.

Sara received a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College, summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar.

Steve Yang

Board Member

Steven joined SER in 2020 and serves as a Vice President. In this role, Steven is responsible for investment origination and execution and portfolio management. Prior to joining SER, Steven was a Senior Associate at Energy Capital Partners. He has eight years of private equity experience and was involved in all areas of the firm’s investment activities.

Steven received a B.S. with Honors in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Management

Alan Dash

CEO and President of Perfect Power

Alan is responsible for firm strategy, investment origination, transaction execution, and asset management. Alan has extensive experience in the energy industry as a board member, senior executive, private equity investor and engineer. He has spent more than 30 years in the energy, electricity market and utility business with a focus on power generation, renewable energy, energy storage and market strategy.

Most recently Alan was at NEXUS Infrastructure Capital Management and previously Starwood Energy Group. While at Starwood Energy Group, he was responsible for transaction origination, execution and asset management activities, with an emphasis on utility-scale renewable energy and storage projects in North America. He served on several boards including Vionx Energy, a vanadium redox flow battery company. Mr. Dash also served as Interim President of Premium Power Corporation. Mr. Dash was one of the Founding Partners and board secretary of Nautilus Solar Energy, a leading developer of distributed solar projects.

Alan previously worked as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan & Co, CS First Boston and Prudential-Bache Securities. Mr. Dash also held the position of Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning at Air & Water Technologies Corporation. In addition, he served in a variety of roles while employed at Air & Water Technologies, including President of Research Cottrell Consulting Division and as a member of the new technology investment committee.

Alan has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an Sc.M. from Harvard University, an M.S. from the University of California and a B.A. from the State University of New York.

Douglas Sherman

Chief Commercial Officer

Douglas Sherman is a financial executive who has been involved within the energy industry for the past 25 years as a lender and more recently as a commodity markets professional. At Freepoint Commodities, a physical-commodity merchant, based in Stamford, CT, Doug originated structured financings across all commodities including oil, natural gas and power. Prior to Freepoint, Doug spent 6 years at Deutsche Bank serving as a Director within a CLO-backed lending team and as a member of the commodities team. As part of the commodities group, Doug was responsible for structured commodity financings for financial sponsors and corporations, sold traditional commodity derivative products and worked alongside the investment banking teams in deploying commodity products within acquisition and corporate financings. From 1992-2007, Doug was involved in various roles within the power sector and the project finance industry. While at Credit Lyonnais, ABB, GE Capital and Beal Bank, Doug participated in the financings of over $5 billion in financings for power projects within the US and overseas. Within the power sector, Doug worked on gas-fired cogeneration projects, coal-fired projects, geothermal projects, distributed generation projects and inside-the-fence industrial projects.

Doug has an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and a BSEE from Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Anthony Maselli, P.E.

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Maselli is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Perfect Power LLC, and Micro Grid Networks. Prior to that, Mr. Maselli Sr. Vice President of Development and Strategy at Vistra Energy. The parent company of Luminant, TXU, Dynegy, Crius Energy, Ambit Energy, headquartered in Irving Texas. In this role he developed, constructed and built over 8.3 GWs of renewable projects, such as Solar, Energy Storage and Wind projects. He also supported the Strategy, M&A and expansion of assets critical to Vistra’s business model. In this regard he assisted in over $20 billion in M&A activities, and expansion projects.

Prior to Vistra Energy, he was the Managing Director of Project Development for Con Ed Development. In this role he has been involved in the renewable energy development of over 1 GW of solar and wind projects.

Mr. Maselli has also held key positions such as Vice President of Global Sales for Schneider Electric & Invensys , Sr. Vice President of Altran Solutions Corp., Vice President & Managing Director of HSB Engineering Finance Corporation (“EFC”), General Manager of United American Energy, and other various positions for Consolidated Edison of New York.

Mr. Maselli’s engineering experience includes solar, nuclear, mechanical, electrical, and structural.

He holds a BS in Marine Engineering with a concentration in Electrical Engineering from the State of New York State Maritime College. Mr. Maselli did his graduate studies at PACE University in New York, toward an MS in Utility Management. He has also completed the Executive Development Program directed by the Harvard Business School. Mr. Maselli is a registered Professional Engineer in many states, including New York, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Illinois, Tennessee & Connecticut.

Mr. Maselli is a Certified General Contractor in Florida.

Lars Lisell

Engineering Project Manager

Lars serves as a Project Manager. In this role, Lars is responsible for tracking the distributed energy projects under development and construction. Prior to joining Perfect Power Lars spent 10 years as a Research Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Lars focus at NREL was to provide support for renewable energy projects, energy efficiency projects, technology demonstrations, and market tools to drive adoption of clean tech.

Lars has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and is a licensed PE in New York and Colorado.