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Leadership

Operators, advisors, and partners aligned around the platform thesis.

SPD's leadership and advisor network brings deep expertise across project finance, M&A, federal-program structuring, energy and data center infrastructure, water technology, and construction execution, directly aligned with the platform's two-pillar pipeline in critical minerals and energy, and Western U.S. water resilience.

Co-Founders

The principals leading the platform.

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Paul Singarella

Mr. Singarella, a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner, served as Chair of the firm's Orange County and San Francisco environmental departments, and built a national law practice by advancing mega-water and energy infrastructure projects and handling high-stakes litigation protecting project approvals. He is recognized nationally for his work on complex water-resource matters, federal environmental and natural-resources litigation, and the regulatory and permitting architecture that governs large-scale U.S. infrastructure development. Prior to law, Mr. Singarella trained as an engineer and hydrologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a National Science Foundation chemistry scholar, and a contractor helping to run the family construction business.

Platform Role

Leads SPD's project accretion, overall platform strategy and positioning, federal-program engagement, public-agency relationships, and science and technology innovation - across all focus-sectors.

Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer

John Dewey

Mr. Dewey has spent more than 35 years in California real estate and infrastructure development, with cumulative project responsibility exceeding $2 billion of capital investment. His expertise spans complex project entitlements, project finance, environmentally-impacted properties, and the structuring of public-private partnerships and tax-exempt municipal financings. He was a business and economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he began his career as a financial analyst at a predecessor firm of Lehman Brothers.

Platform Role

Leads SPD's capital strategy, project finance, and investor relations, including the institutional capital architecture and federal infrastructure-finance program engagement supporting both platform pillars.

Strategic Advisors

Senior advisory leadership across regulation, M&A, and capital markets.

Strategic Advisor

Claudia O'Brien

Ms. O'Brien is widely recognized for her command of the law governing the coal and utility industries. Her practice spans the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, NEPA, RCRA, and the regulatory frameworks that govern U.S. critical-minerals processing and energy development.

Platform Role

Advises SPD on regulatory strategy, federal critical-minerals program engagement, Western U.S. water-rights and entitlements, and the multi-agency permitting that anchors the development pipeline across both platform pillars.

Special Advisor, M&A Activities

Cary Hyden

Mr. Hyden previously served as Chair of the Corporate Department in Latham & Watkins LLP's Orange County office, where for nearly a decade he advised public companies, private equity sponsors, and financial advisors on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities matters. He has substantial experience in contested transactions, including representing companies facing hostile takeovers and activist stockholders, work for which American Lawyer named him Dealmaker of the Year in 2015 following his successful defense of Allergan against the Valeant and Pershing Square hostile bid and the $73 billion sale of the company to Actavis. He has been recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California on multiple occasions.

Platform Role

Advises SPD on M&A execution, transaction structuring, and capital-markets strategy across the platform's active acquisition pipeline in critical minerals and energy.

Pillar Advisors

Subject-matter advisors aligned to SPD's infrastructure pillars.

Sector Consultant, Drones & Robotics

David Dewey

Mr. Dewey is a defense-aerospace systems engineer specializing in radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors, and the systems engineering underlying autonomous and unmanned platforms. He spent nearly five years at Raytheon Technologies' Secured Sensor Solutions group in El Segundo, California, where as a Systems Engineer II he developed and tested tactical radar algorithms for the APG-82(v)1 air-to-air radar and contributed to next-generation EO/IR sensor development, work spanning MATLAB algorithm development, tactical simulation, and performance validation against system requirements. Prior to Raytheon, Mr. Dewey conducted spacecraft propulsion research at the University of Washington SPACE Lab and interned at TMX Engineering, an aerospace manufacturer of proprietary parts for SpaceX and Blue Origin. He holds a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.

Platform Role

Advises SPD on the drones and robotics sector, including defense-aerospace sensor systems, autonomous platforms, and counter-UAS technologies, supporting the platform's national security thesis and informing diligence on pipeline opportunities at the intersection of defense technology and the critical minerals that anchor those systems.

Special Advisor, Energy & Data Centers

Peter Hirschboeck

Mr. Hirschboeck is Founder and Managing Director of impactECI, a strategy advisory firm operating at the intersection of power, energy infrastructure, policy, and economics for the computing and electric sectors. impactECI advises hyperscalers, developers, institutional capital, and policymakers across the United States and Europe on the buildout of cloud, AI, and high-performance computing infrastructure, including powered-land origination, capacity and supply-curve analysis, and the market design questions determining where domestic compute can actually be built. He is a frequent commentator on data center power economics, dynamic system planning, and the grid investment decisions shaping national compute capacity.

Platform Role

Advises SPD on energy infrastructure strategy, with particular focus on resilient power supply for data center and advanced-industry load growth, central to SPD's energy pillar.

Strategic Partner, Advanced Water Systems

John Webley

Mr. Webley is a serial cleantech entrepreneur and engineer with more than 40 years of engineering experience spanning electrical, mechanical, and chemical disciplines. He is the founder of Trevi Systems, which is commercializing proprietary Forward Osmosis and electrodialysis metathesis water purification technologies, with customers in the water-treatment and mining sectors. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Advanced Fibre Communications, which grew to a $6 billion market capitalization, and founded Turin Networks, an optical networking company subsequently acquired by Dell. He holds B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and an honorary Doctorate of Science from Sonoma State University.

Platform Role

Supports SPD's water platform on advanced water-purification and clean-water technology, with direct application to brackish-water desalination, the platform's clean-water technology pipeline, and management of mining wastes that constrain the U.S. mining industry.

Construction Management/Constructibility

Duncan Peterson

Mr. Peterson has spent more than 40 years at D&C Construction Co., Inc., where he currently serves as Vice President and has held roles spanning Engineer, Superintendent, Project Manager, and Estimator. He is known for cost-saving value engineering and solving for apparent constructibility constraints. His career has focused on heavy civil, utility, and water/wastewater construction, with a track record of execution on complex infrastructure projects from estimation through delivery.

Platform Role

Advises SPD on construction management, project execution, and constructibility across the infrastructure pipeline.

Inquiries

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