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He has over 20 years experience in the western energy market and has served in a variety of leadership positions and performed numerous project responsibilities. Mr. Lamkin has served as a corporate officer at two Fortune 500 energy companies where he had leadership responsibility for power plant development, project construction, asset management, trading and marketing, and project finance. At the Calpine Corporation, Mr. Lamkin was the corporate officer with leadership responsibility for development, construction, and financing of its power generation fleet. Under Mr. Lamkin’s direction, over 10,000 MW of new power plant capacity were successfully developed and over 6,000 MW were constructed and brought into commercial operations. Mr. Lamkin was also responsible for leading the Asset Management, Marketing & Origination, Legislative and Government Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and the Transmission groups for the Western United States Region. This included management responsibility for nearly 20 operating power projects totaling over 8,000 MW. Mr. Lamkin also previously served as Vice President at Mirant Corporation and had responsibility in completing the acquisition of 3,100 MW of gas-fired power plants from Pacific Gas & Electric. He had the responsibility for asset management of these facilities and managed the Regulatory and Government Affairs Group. Earlier, Mr. Lamkin held a variety of positions at the Northern California Power Agency in the areas of Planning, Operations, and Trading & Marketing. He most notably served as Assistant General Manager and was responsible for all aspects of the generation assets, including asset management, operations, and Trading & Marketing. Immediately previous to assuming his current role at Cool Earth Solar, Mr. Lamkin was the Founder and CEO of Radiant Energy. Radiant Energy develops renewable and clean power generation assets with a focus on solar and geothermal projects. In July, 2007 Cool Earth Solar merged with Radiant Energy and Mr. Lamkin became the CEO of the newly merged company. | 