GreenHunter is a holding company and green tech investor in the Wind, Geothermal, Biofuels, and Biomass. They currently own and operate the nation’s largest biodiesel plant, located in Houston, TX, a biomass facility in California as well as Florida and wind projects located in California, Montana and New Mexico.
GreenHunter’s primary focus is on the acquisition of operating assets; however, on a selective basis, they will invest in the development of projects or expansion opportunities at existing renewable energy facilities.
Gary C. Evans is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and founder of GreenHunter. Mr. Evans is also a principal in Global Hunter Holdings, L.P., the parent of Global Hunter Securities, LLC., entities active in both direct capital investments and investment banking activities for numerous high growth Chinese-based enterprises.
During the prior 20 years until April 2005, Mr. Evans served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc. (an NYSE-listed company) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of all of the Magnum Hunter subsidiaries since their formation or acquisition dating back to 1985. Mr. Evans founded the predecessor company, Hunter Resources, Inc., that was merged into and formed Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc. until its merger with Cimarex Energy, Inc. (NYSE: XEC) during 2005 in a $2.2 billion transaction. From 1978 to 1985, Mr.
Eghosa Omoigui is the founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners. Before this, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Intel Capital Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer Internet & Semantic Technologies, where he acted as a senior investment professional focused on platform-agnostic consumer web services and digital media-based investment opportunities. Omoigui also drove ICap’s investment focus on next generation semantic technologies, smart data and the realtime web. Eghosa was personally responsible for (developing supporting theses for and) sourcing investment opportunities in various companies including AdMob, Jaiku, Powerset, Facebook, LinkedIn, Teracent and Pandora.
Prior to this role, Omoigui was Chief of Staff to the President of Intel Capital (the largest global tech corporate VC), and, before that, Chief of Staff for Intels Treasury organization, helping oversee an $18B cash platform.