Build Green on Brown

Team

Mark Geall

Prior to joining Tanesay Development, Mark was a Senior Director of Brownfields Capital (BC), an investment firm that provides funding for the redevelopment of contaminated sites. While at BC, Mark underwrote brownfield development projects in various markets throughout the United States. He structured agreements with multiple debt and equity tranches to maximize returns for investors.

Prior to joining Brownfields Capital, Mark spent seven years as Assistant Regional Counsel at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While at the EPA, he handled remedial and removal Superfund actions from site assessment to closure. He tried cases under many federal environmental statutes, including air, water, CERCLA, FIFRA, RCRA, EPCRA and others.

Mark started at the EPA Region 5 Chicago office in 1996. He led clean up project teams comprised of environmental engineers, financial analysts, and toxicologists. He tracked the changes in Brownfields law from its inception with prospective purchaser agreements, comfort letters, and later the Brownfields amendments to CERCLA. As part of that work, he brokered deals with dozens of corporations to return contaminated land to beneficial use. He was also the regional expert for supplemental environmental projects (SEPs), a settlement tool that saved corporations millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements.

Mark Geall spent a year at the United States Department of Justice as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago. He handled all aspects of discovery, motion practice and trials. His cases varied from prosecuting medicare and HUD fraud to defending Title VII discrimination and tort cases.

Mark attended Cornell University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in English and History. He was awarded a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He also received a Masters of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Andrew Bermingham

Following over 20 years in the investment and energy industries, Andrew brings to Tanesay his strong sales and marketing skills, covering a diverse range of national and international products and markets.

Prior to Tanesay, Andrew served for 17 years as Managing Director for Montreux Energy, an energy investment company based in Geneva, Switzerland.  Andrew opened and managed the London office for Montreux Energy for four years.  While at Montreux Energy, Andrew founded five annual energy investment roundtables, in London, Washington, Aspen, California, and Cambridge, England.  In this capacity, Andrew called upon senior executives of all leading energy, power, and automotive companies, as well as leaders in local, national, and international governments, financial institutions, and environmental and lobbyist organizations.

Andrew began his career in the sales and trading program Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith in New York, where he worked from 1985-1988.  He gained his interest in energy working for a summer in college with Hamilton Brothers Oil & Gas Company on a North Sea production platform, and worked with the International Energy Agency in Paris from 1988 to 1989.  Andrew is the Founder and General Partner of Hydrogenica Partners LP, an investment fund devoted to hydrogen and alternative energy.

Andrew has a particular interest in energy, design, and sustainability, and has a broad understanding of global trends in energy, architecture, and designs for the built environment.

Andrew received a BA in Economics from Middlebury College, in Vermont, in 1985, and an MS in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines in 1992.  Andrew and his wife live in Denver with their three sons, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Bob Angevin

Robert assists the principals of Tanesay Development in creating and implementing development strategy. Robert has 20 years' experience in the commercial real estate industry with a focus on finance, development and asset management. Robert currently is a Principal and Founder of Starbuck Capital LLC, a Chicago-based real estate development, asset management and investment firm founded in 2001. Before founding Starbuck Capital LLC, Robert held senior management positions with JMB Properties, Bank of California and Deloitte & Touche LLP. Robert received a BA from Williams College and a Master of Real Estate from The University of Southern California.

Chad Farrell

Chad Farrell, P.E., specializes in investment, project management and consulting services related to real estate acquisition and development, with a focus on environmentally challenged sites and infill development strategies. Specific areas of expertise include contaminated site remediation; brownfields redevelopment; and the utilization of state of the art project management techniques for complicated and time-critical projects. Chad has over 15 years of experience in the contaminated site management field. Recently completed projects include coordination of environmental cleanup of a former automobile dealership for a workforce housing redevelopment; oversight of international environmental due diligence activities in support of a corporate acquisition for a fortune 400 manufacturing company; and coordination of all due diligence activities for an academic institution in support of the purchase of an environmentally impaired asset. Chad is currently a Principal and Founder of Encore Redevelopment, a development and consulting firm that specializes on national and international brownfields and other urban infill projects. Prior to Encore, Chad worked for Black Point, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts as a project manager responsible for all aspects of pre-construction design and permitting activities related to the construction of numerous assisted living facilities throughout the Northeast. Prior to his work at Black Point, Mr. Farrell worked as a senior project manager at The Johnson Company, a specialty environmental consulting firm located in Montpelier, Vermont with a focus on the assessment and remediation of sites impacted by chlorinated solvents and other dense, non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs). Mr. Farrell holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University and Master of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont.