Tuan Pham

Tuan Pham is a Managing Director and head of Silverpeak’s distributed generation platform. He has been a leader in the solar industry for over 15 years, with experience in business development at HelioVolt, a startup thin-film solar company sponsored by New Enterprise Associates, and PowerFin Partners, a distributed solar development firm that he founded and hired and managed over 50 employees and contractors. Tuan has developed and operated hundreds of solar projects and created novel distributed generation programs, all of which were institutionally financed in partnerships with leading global investment firms, including Banco Santander and Macquarie Capital.

Tuan started his career in the securities industry, covering conventional energy and chemicals investments at Morgan Stanley and Banc of America Securities. During his time in leveraged finance, he worked on multi-billion-dollar transactions, maintained a consistently profitable trading book and was recognized as a leading analyst by Institutional Investor magazine. Tuan also spent time at the Austin Clean Energy Incubator and Strategic Value Partners, a $5 billion fixed-income hedge fund where he served as a Director overseeing energy, industrials and mortgage-backed investments. He holds the CFA charter, a B.S.B.A. in Finance from the University of Tulsa and an M.B.A. in Strategic Management from the University of Texas, where he was in the Honors and Venture Fellows programs, respectively.