MEET THE TEAM

Michael Rucker

Michael Rucker is the Founder and CEO of Scout Clean Energy, a renewable energy owner-operator with operations in 14 US states. Michael was also co-founder and formerly President of Harvest Energy Services, Inc. (now Workrise) which specializes in O&M and asset management services. Michael previously served as CEO of juwi Wind North America, a German wind developer, and as VP of Business Development at Clipper Windpower Development. Prior to that, he was a Commercial Director at GE Energy for west region wind, hydro, and natural gas turbine sales. Other positions included Director at APX in renewable energy certificate trading, power scheduling, and settlements. He also supported the Climate Change negotiations at the International Energy Agency in Paris as manager of the Climate Technology Initiative program. Michael was also a Manager at the Edison Electric Institute, the trade association for the US investor-owned utilities.

Andrew Young

Prior to joining Scout, Andrew served as CEO for Innogy Renewables US, launched in 2016, and rapidly developed and constructed more than $900MM of new wind and solar projects in a 4-year period (now part of RWE Renewables). Over his 25 year career in renewables, Mr. Young has helped launch and grow multiple companies from the ground up including the EDF and EDPR US platforms to develop and construct more than 3 GW of wind and solar power projects across the US and Canada.Mr. Young holds a BASc in Engineering from University of Waterloo, and coaches youth hockey.

John Clapp

John Clapp is CFO of Scout Clean Energy, a renewable energy owner-operator. John previously served as CEO/CFO of Empower Energies, a distributed generation developer/owner/operator of C&I renewable projects and prior to that as CFO of a U.S. utility-scale solar developer/owner/operator joint-venture between two German renewable industry companies. John was a Managing Director at Citigroup in the Global Power Team before moving over to the developer side. At Citi John was the Bank’s power sector specialist and worked across project finance, tax equity, corporate & investment banking and commodities. Prior to banking, John and was a senior consultant at PA Consulting where he managed teams conducting market price forecasts and asset valuations for project financings and M&A.

Matt Heck

Matt Heck has 19 years of development experience working in more than 26 states for diverse renewable energy companies including Iberdrola Renewables, EDF/enXco, juwi Wind, juwi Solar, and Community Energy. Matt is skilled in all development aspects from initial idea through construction, including siting of multiple projects currently in the ground. Matt has been a key contributor to numerous operating renewable energy projects, including recently leading the Scoutteam on completing development and construction/tax equity financings for four projects (810 MWs).

Matt has a BS from James Madison University in Integrated Science and Technology. Matt currently resides in Boulder, CO.

Kevin Olson

Kevin has over 9 years of project finance and M&A experience working on both large-scale wind farms and distributed generation solar projects. Prior to Scout, he held positions at juwi Wind North America and SunShare. At Scout, Kevin leads all project finance activities and has secured construction financing totaling over $1 billion and tax equity commitments over $725 million for the Persimmon Creek, Ranchero, Heart of Texas and Bitter Ridge wind farms.
Kevin holds an MBA from the University of Colorado-Boulder with an emphasis in Finance and Energy and has a BA degree in Economics and International Studies.

John Kaminski

John currently leads Scout’s Asset Management and Operations team, which is responsible for optimizing the profitability of Scout’s operating projects. Prior to joining Scout, John held asset management positions with Apex Clean Energy and Infigen Energy. He has extensive experience in negotiating and executing a wide range of agreements including turbine, balance of plant, energy off-take, and energy management. John has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a Masters in Engineering and Management Science from Lehigh University.

Brad Seaman

Brad leads Scout's M&A group and through early 2020 was responsible for the acquisition of approximately 650 MW of wind assets along with the origination of an additional 2.4 GW of greenfield wind and solar assets currently in Scout's portfolio. Brad has almost a decade of project development, finance, and transaction experience in renewable energy. Prior to Scout, Brad worked for renewable developers juwi Wind and Scatec Energy.Brad earned his MBA from CU-Boulder with an emphasis in Finance and Energy. He previously received a Master’s in Ecology from the University of Georgia and attended Virginia Tech for his undergraduate education. Brad currently resides in Boulder, CO.

Lindsay Delahunty

Lindsay leads the construction team which is responsible for management of construction from preconstruction through commissioning for all projects built in theScout portfolio. She has overseen the construction of over 1.1 Gigawatts of utility scale wind energy construction in the US and Canada. Lindsay began her career in the petrochemical industry before transitioning to the wind energy industry in 2008. She holds an MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Stephen Wieland

Stephen Wieland is the Vice President of Commercial Operations and Procurement at Scout Clean Energy. He has over 25-years of experience in the energy field and over 15 years in renewables.  Prior to joining Scout, Stephen worked at RES Americas and managed procurement and construction transactions for all RES development and 3rd party projects.  He has also worked for both Vestas and Nordex, leading wind turbine sales teams in North America.  Stephen holds a Master of Business from the Thunderbird School of International Management at Arizona State University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Cedric Ireland

As Secretary and General Counsel of Scout Clean Energy, Cedric manages all aspects of the company’s legal affairs, including corporate governance, contracting,dispute resolution and liaising with outside counsel. Cedric has over 10 years of experience in the renewable energy industry, having previously served as General Counsel of Leeward Renewable Energy, Counsel at RES Americas and Compass Wind, and Associate at Husch Blackwell.Cedric holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College.

Jim Sardonia

Jim leads Scout’s Site and Wind resource assessment efforts for wind turbine selection and investment grade energy yield analysis throughout all phases of a wind project’s development lifecycle. Prior to joining Scout, Jim was the Director of Wind Resource at EverPower Wind Holdings from 2014-2019 and the Manager of Site Suitability Studies at Siemens Wind Power from 2008 to 2013. Jim is a proud Veteran of both the US Army and US Air Force, serving 16 years in the Department of Defense andNASA. Jim graduated with an MS in Business Management and BS in Meteorology from Florida State University.

Mark Wengierski

Mark is the Director of Development- East Region where he oversees wind, solar, and battery storage development opportunities in MISO, SPP, ERCOT, PJM and the northeastern U.S.  He has 14 years of experience in the renewable energy industry supporting 1+ GW of wind power development in the U.S. and has experience throughout the stages of a project’s lifespan, from greenfield prospecting to taking an existing development asset into construction.  Mark holds two degrees, a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Science and a Master’s degree in Land Economics and Real Estate both from Texas A&M University.

Rudy Rivas

Judd Rogers

Judd is focused on creating new opportunities to build Scout’s development portfolio. He has a decade of experience as a project manager and developing projects in the US and abroad including Canada and Chile. He also worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory while attaining an MBA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, which focused on sustainability and renewable energy. He loves chasing his wife and two kids around the mountains of Colorado and other far flung places.

Bernardo Lacoste

Bernie joined the wind industry in the mid 80’s working for Enertech Wind Systems, one of the few U.S. wind turbine manufacturers, erecting and operating roughly 500 machines. From there his career has followed several paths, like green field micro siting to maximize AEP, application engineering to improve budgetary numbers, performed construction project management in various countries, operated diverse wind turbine technologies, developed SCADA platforms to improve project performance, refurbished several hundred two-stage planetary gearboxes to improve service life, assisted with several structural component retrofit programs, performed forensic analysis of failed components and authored many operating procedures.

Aimee Leatherman

Aimee Leatherman has sixteen years of project development experience working in the renewable energy sector. Aimee’s career began in 2004 with Invenergy LLC, as a Development Manager of greenfield wind and solar projects in the west.  In 2009, Aimee joined E.ON Climate & Renewables North America LLC, as a Western Region Project Manager.  She spent five years at Renewable Energy Systems Americas (RES) focusing on business and market development of wind, solar, transmission, and energy storage.  Aimee joined the Scout team in 2019 as a Senior Project Manager and is responsible for developing mid to late stage projects.