Gary Sands

Experience

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  Overseas Private Investment Corporation

  Nov 1988 - Oct 1996

  Senior Investment Officer

  • Closed 10 project finance transactions in the banking, bottling, construction, forestry, telecom and tourism industries in Central and South America• Restructured the $225 million Polar Lights oil field development project in Russia • Developed OPIC's onlending initiative using local banks in Latin America and Russia

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  Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)

  Oct 1996 - May 2000

  Vice President

  • Lead financial advisor to third-party sponsors for project finance transactions in the power, chemical, cement, and oil and gas industries throughout South Asia and the Middle East.• Supervised and edited information memorandums and financial models• Trained and directed the activities of four assistant vice presidents, five financial analysts• Created ABB project finance training manual

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  Shell Capital

  Oct 2000 - May 2001

  Vice President

  Vice President - Structurer, 2000-2001• Acted as lead structurer on several third-party transactions, including $33 million in subordinated debt and warrants to oil and gas producer in Colombia, $25 million in subordinated debt to gas producer in Oman, and $35 million in senior debt to oil producer in Kazahkstan• Trained and directed activities of three vice presidents, four financial analysts• Tasked with establishing venture capital and private equity division within Shell Capital

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  Highway West Capital Advisors

  May 2001 - now

  Managing Director

  • Financial referral agent for bamboo related projects in Vietnam & Taiwan• Acted as financial advisor to NGOs accessing USAID funds in Vietnam• Acted as a private sector advisor for health market innovation fund in Vietnam • Provided financial advice to a sericulture project in Ethiopia