Corridor benefits from the deep experience of its leadership team in operating energy companies and executing capital market transactions in the energy industry:
Richard C. ("Rick") Green
Corridor InfraTrust Management, Managing Director
Mr. Green isa co-founder and Managing Director of Corridor InfraTrust Management, and serves as Chairman of Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. (NYSE: TTO). He has spent more than 30 years in the energy industry serving as a CEO for more than 20 years. During his tenure, Mr. Green demonstrated leadership and perseverance in pioneering the strategy and successful execution of a significant business expansion of Aquila Inc., formerly UtiliCorp United, to a Fortune 30 company. Aquila Inc. was an international electric and gas utility business and national energy marketing and trading business. Mr. Green has also been credited with leading a successful wind down of the merchant trading operations of Aquila Inc. to provide shareholder focus on the company’s utility market strategy during the 2002 energy market crisis. From 2006-2008, Mr. Green successfully directed the complicated separation and ultimate sale of Aquila’s multistate utility operations. Mr. Green then founded The Calvin Group LLC, a consulting firm that leveraged the management and operational experience of the partners to catalyze the management teams of energy companies.
Rick is currently on the board and was previously a chairman of the Midwest Research Institute, and has also served on the board for the National Renewable Energy Laboratories in Golden, Colorado. A Graduate of Southern Methodist University, Mr. Green serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hall Family Foundation, and as a Trustee of both the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Washington D.C. based Urban Institute.
David J. Schulte, CFA, CPA
Corridor InfraTrust Management, Managing Director
Mr. Schulteis a co-founder and Managing Director of both Corridor and TCA, where he serves on the investment committee, and is also Chief Executive Officer and Director of Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. (NYSE: TTO). In addition, Mr. Schulte serves as Senior Vice President of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE: TYG), Tortoise Energy Capital Corporation (NYSE: TYY), Tortoise North American Energy Corporation (NYSE: TYN), Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund Inc. (NYSE: TPZ), Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. (NYSE: NTG) and Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. (NYSE: TPZ). From 1993-2002, Mr.Schulte was a Managing Director at Kansas City Equity Partners, L.C. (“KCEP”). While a partner at KCEP, Mr. Schulte led private financing for two growth MLP’s in the energy infrastructure sector, Inergy, L.P., where he served as a director, and Mark West Energy Partners, L.P., where he was a board observer. Prior to joining KCEP, Mr. Schulte had over five years of experience completing acquisition and public equity financings as an investment banker at the predecessor of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. In 2011, Mr. Schulte and his partners at TCA were awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® award for financial services companies in the Central Midwest region.
David W. Haley
Corridor InfraTrust Management, Director
Mr. Haley is a Director of Corridor and Senior Vice President of Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. (NYSE:TTO). He has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to joining Corridor, Mr. Haley was a Vice President at the consulting firm, The Calvin Group. From 2002-2008 he was Managing Director of EnFocus, a consulting firm focused on risk management and structuring transactions for clients in the energy and financial services industries. Mr. Haley was previously Vice President of Cross Commodity Trading for Aquila Merchant Services, where he directed a group engaged in market marking, risk managementand proprietary trading of crude oil, natural gas, residual and heating oil, electricity, coal and financial transmission rights/transmission congestion credits. He was also responsible for managing the risks and optimizing a portfolio of asset investments including power plants, electric transmission, natural gas transportation and natural gas storage. Before joining Aquila, he was Vice President of Cinergy Corp. where he directed structuring, valuation analysis and transaction pricing for mergers & acquisitions and leveraged buyouts/financial restructurings of independent power projects.
Rebecca M. Sandring
Corridor InfraTrust Management, Principal
Ms.Sandring is Principal of Corridor and Treasurer of Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. (NYSE: TTO). She has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. As a Vice President with The Calvin Group, she created strategic business plans resulting in third party investments and provided financial leadership to a wind development company, which resulted in planned project cost reductions. From 1993-2008 Ms. Sandring had various roles at Aquila Inc, formerly UtiliCorp United, a regulated gas and electric utility serving a multi-state region with international operations including transmission, distribution and generation. Ms. Sandring’s roles at UtiliCorp and then Aquila Inc. were in operational finance, and included business valuations, project and corporate finance, process efficiency, implementation of complex GAAP accounting policies and internal accounting and risk system designs. As Director of Finance at Aquila, Inc. she was responsible for leading the internal finance team, which worked with external advisors regarding the strategic alternatives for Aquila, Inc. In her role as Director of Finance for the unregulated power generation division, which had over 4,000 megawatts of generation capacity, she was responsible for building the accounting, strategic planning and forecasting team and process.
Ms. Sandring earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting at William Jewell College and her Executive Masters in Business Administration at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.