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Jim is the CEO & Founder of SR Inc and led the creation of SR Inc’s Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB), which advises and represents Fortune 500 and fast-growth companies across the U.S. and internationally in the development of renewable energy strategies and the procurement of both on and off-site advanced energy solutions. Jim oversees the entire VPPA process, focusing on managing buyer-seller meetings and negotiation sessions. Leveraging Jim’s years of experience in corporate advisory services and as an attorney, Jim leads the overall NZCB procurement process, including developing procurement-specific LOI & Term Sheets and managing the LOI & Term Sheet negotiations. Jim also supports VPPA contract negotiations while joining with internal and external counsel.

Before founding SR Inc, Jim co-led Trammell Crow Company Corporate Advisory Services in San Francisco and returned to his native Boston and Trammell Crow Company’s market-leading team in Greater Boston, where he received the Commercial Brokers Association’s Platinum Award for the highest level of commercial real estate transactions. Earlier, he advised companies on real estate and environmental matters as an attorney at a large law firm based in Boston. Previously in his career, he served as a federal law clerk, an aide to John F. Kerry in the U.S. Senate, and on Vice President Al Gore’s campaign for President. Jim graduated from Middlebury College, where he co-captained the football team, and Boston College Law School.

David Osborn is the CFO & Senior Advisor of SR Inc. David has been involved in all SR Inc VPPA procurements, both individual off-taker procurements (“VPPA 1.0”), as well as all Aggregated Procurements (“VPPA 2.0”), which have ranged in size from as little as 220K MWHs per annum to as large as 550K MWHs per annum. He has led briefings for our VPPA buyers to all management levels of our client organization, up to and including the COO and CFO at Fortune 500 clients. He manages each buyer throughout the procurement process and help them get across the finish line. He facilitates stakeholder meetings across critical functions such as legal, finance, operations, procurement, and investor relations to assist buyers in gaining buy-in from their senior management.

David has won multiple professional and academic awards, highlighted by winning BAH’s prestigious Professional Excellence Award just prior to being elected Partner in the firm. He was later elected as a Managing Partner at BAH, where he ran two separate business units, including BAH’s North American Financial Services practice. David received a BA in Economics and Geology from Dartmouth with academic awards, including the College President’s citation in mathematics, graduated in the top 3% of his class, and received his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

As a Senior Director, Strategic Advisory Services, Jeff helps lead the NZCB team by both helping to facilitate transactions, guiding potential offtakers through the procurement process, and conducting financial analyses of proposed and closed transactions. Specifically, Jeff leads in the modeling of proposed utility-scale wind and solar projects on a historical and futures basis customized to specific Member-Clients’ electric loads and geographic distributions. He also plays a leading role in SR Inc’s management best practice research and data analysis efforts, including the topics of achieving Net Zero Emissions and entering VPPAs. While David leads in relationship management and meeting facilitation, Jeff provides comprehensive content support to address technical and financial inquiries. Together, they guide each buyer through the process to secure their commitment. Jeff has worked on over 1.1 GW of transactions and is actively supporting three aggregations in the U.S. and two in Europe.

Before SR Inc, Jeff had relevant work experience with the Procurement and Property Services team at Citizens Bank as an EDF Climate Corps Fellow, with the EHS and Sustainability team at L’Oréal, and with the EPA Green Power Partnership as an Environmental Analyst at Eastern Research Group. He also advised Biogen in helping develop a Scope 3 supplier engagement strategy to achieve its ambitious Science-Based Target. Jeff is an active participant in sustainability groups, is an accredited LEED Green Associate, is trained in the GRI Standards and GHG Protocol, and has served on the leadership of Duke University’s Net Impact Club and Net Impact Boston. Jeff holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Colby College.

As a Director, Strategic Advisory Services, Julia has been working on SR Inc’s NZCB team for the last four years. She is the developer-facing expert, leveraging her deep understanding of market dynamics and risk assessment. She evaluates developer proposals using a Five-Level Risk Ranking system, narrowing down options during initial bid reviews and Best and Final Offer (BAFO) rounds. Her expertise ensures that only the most viable projects advance, and that communications with the developer are seamless. She conducts ongoing renewable energy market research and serves as the resident expert on developers.

Before working at SR Inc, Julia worked as a Sustainability Consultant for footwear distributor Weyco Group, creating a GHG inventory aligned with the globally recognized GHG Protocol and working to reduce impact in their supply chain. She has additional experience providing sustainability support services from working with consulting firm Scott Echols Group, LLC and interning at TerraCycle.

Julia graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Science from Brown University. There, she worked with the Brown Office of Sustainability for three years, helping Brown reduce waste to landfill, measure Scope 3 emissions, and institute a campus-wide Sustainability Plan.