Mr. Martin Buckley BIO

Martin A. Buckley, P.E., Vice President

Martin (Marty) Buckley’s career in the energy industry spans more than 32 years. He has over $4 billion transactional experience and has developed 40 projects in a variety of technologies in North America. He has been involved with most all facets of the industry while working for a regulated gas and electric utility, an unregulated wholly owned electric utility subsidiary, a chemical company and a merchant energy and gas company. He also was a founding member and on the Board of Directors for the Energy Investor’s Fund of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the first equity funds for small and alternative energy projects in the US, which has since grown to over two billion in investments.

Mr. Buckley joined Sigma Capital from T R Holdings, LLC where he provided advisory services on power and gas transactions, development of renewable energy projects such as hydro-electric, geothermal, wind, biomass and wood fired facilities, asset sales and purchases, and for utilities, lenders and purchasers of projects.

Prior to TR Holdings, he was VP of Business Development for Drummond Company focusing on gasification of coal and potential technologies and investments. Mr. Buckley gained intimate knowledge of the alternative/renewable industry and analyzed over 20 projects worth $ 30 billion which used gasifiers and Fischer Tropsch technologies for conversion of syngas into synthetic natural gas, fuels, chemicals and fertilizers for potential investment.

In 2005, Mr. Buckley joined NRG Energy as VP of Development where he analyzed and started to re-develop the $ 1.2 billion NRG portfolio.for their Northeast generation facilities.

Subsequent to El Paso, Mr. Buckley was VP of Development for Sempra Generation where he reviewed and repositioned $500 million of their facilities and made recommendations to rehabilitate, retire, and reconfigure with new technologies. This resulted in a sale to a third party for approximately a $200 million premium.

In 2001, Mr. Buckley joined El Paso Merchant Energy in Houston, TX. as Senior Vice President, responsible for origination and trading of power and gas transactions for power plants and large customers. By restructuring old QF contracts, he was able to increase their value by approximately $100 million by unlocking the options contained in these agreements.

In 1993, Mr. Buckley joined Air Liquide America Corporation in Houston, TX. As VP Energy, he established and managed a group of professionals in power and gas purchasing and sales. He was also responsible for two gasification projects and seven cogeneration development with industrial hosts tied to the air separation business, collectively worth $ 500 million.

Mr. Buckley began his career with 10-year tenure in Syracuse, NY, at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation. There he worked on generation and transmission planning, while also working with the New York Power Pool on strategic planning and contractual agreements between members of the pool, as well as other power pools for new transmission and generation resources. In his next assignment, Mr. Buckley was selected as one of four professionals to serve on the startup team for Niagara Mohawk’s unregulated power subsidiary, HYDRA-CO Enterprises Incorporated. During his 13 years with HYRRA-CO, the company grew to over 275 people, and Mr. Buckley where he served as Secretary/Treasurer for two years and as the VP of Corporate Development for 11 years. In this capacity, he was responsible for business planning, development and financing of over $1.5 billion for projects.

Mr. Buckley holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Trine University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York.

Email: buckley@sigmacapital.net