Wasatch Wind Names New CFO

Brett Woodard has been named vice president of finance and chief financial officer (CFO) of Wasatch Wind Inc., a Heber City, Utah-based wind power developer and manufacturer of tower and lifting systems for utility-scale wind turbines. Mr. Woodard joined Wasatch Wind in August, 2007 and has been instrumental in arranging finance for the company’s project development portfolio and securing capital to expand the companies product development and manufacturing. He has over 25 years experience in arranging international and domestic project finance for high technology infrastructure projects and has also served in senior finance and accounting functions in emerging telecommunications and biotechnology companies. Prior to joining Wasatch Wind, Mr. Woodard was the Head of Nokia Networks Customer Finance N. America. In that position he was lead in arranging project financing packages for major Nokia customers in the U.S. and Latin America. During that tenure he led the Nokia finance team in closing the first bank infrastructure financing in Argentina after the Peso devaluation. Prior to that he was employed by G.E. Capital serving as V.P. NTFC Capital in the Vendor Financial Services group. While in that position he led GECC’s efforts in closing a major participation in the Sprint PCS project finance package and also was involved in creating a profitable portfolio of infrastructure loans to start-up alternative access and wireless telecommunications companies. Immediately prior to joining Wasatch Wind Mr. Woodard served as Acting CFO at ESIN, a new telecommunications network operator in Upstate New York. He holds a B.S and MBA, Finance from the University of Utah, and has also had additional graduate education in the PhD Finance program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.