From Vision to Market

Mr. Wood has more than 25 years of experience in the development, financing, regulation, and the legal and policy issues of energy infrastructure. Currently, he serves as Executive Chairman of the Hunt Energy Network, a distributed energy platform company since February 2019. Known for his role in setting up competitive energy markets in Texas and across the country, Wood served as Chairman of both the Public Utility Commission of Texas (1995-2001) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (2001-2005). Since leaving public service, he focuses on developing energy infrastructure projects and companies. He currently serves as a director of SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR) and of Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR), including his recent appointment to Luma Energy, overseeing the Quanta-ATCO joint venture to operate the Puerto Rico utility system. Wood served as Board Chairman of independent power producer Dynegy from its emergence from bankruptcy in 2012 to its merger with Vistra Energy in 2018 for $1.7 billion in an all stock deal, creating a $10 billion publicly traded equity valued company upon closing. He was a strategic advisor to Natural Gas Partners from 2005 until 2014 when he became an independent director of Memorial Resources Development (Nasdaq: MRD) upon its IPO in 2014. MRD was sold to Range Resources in 2016 for $4.4 billion enterprise value. He is also a past director of TPI Composites (NASDAQ: TPIC) and has past affiliations with InfraREIT (NYSE: HIFR), Airtricity, First Wind, Texas Genco, The Texas A&M Smart Grid Council, the American Council on Renewable Energy, and remains a member of the National Petroleum Council.

As one of the key architects of the nation’s competitive power markets, Wood has been on the forefront of the transformation of the power sector. His regulatory leadership at the Public Utility Commission of Texas and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during the transition to a cleaner, more flexible power system created an attractive investment climate for innovative companies and technologies across the United States. As Chairman of independent power producer (IPP) Dynegy, Wood led a small company emerging from bankruptcy in 2012 through four significant mergers, including two simultaneous ones with Energy Capital Partners and Duke Energy, and Dynegy’s fifth merger in 2018 with Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST), creating the nation’s largest IPP with an equity value of $10 billion at the time of closing.

He served as a member of the board of directors of Spring Valley I from its inception in November 2020 until the closing of the NuScale merger in May 2022

Mr. Quinn is the founder and Managing Partner of Pearl Energy Investments and is responsible for all aspects of managing the firm. He currently sits on the board of the majority of Pearl portfolio companies, including Permian Resources, SLANT Energy, Infinity Natural Resources, and served as a member of the board of directors of Spring Valley I from its inception in November 2020 until the closing of the NuScale merger in May 2022.

Prior to founding Pearl, Quinn served as Co-Managing Partner of Natural Gas Partners (NGP) for approximately 20 years. In his capacity as Managing Partner, he co-managed NGP’s investment portfolio and played an active role in the full range of NGP’s investment process. Additionally, Quinn gained valuable investment experience working for Rainwater, Inc. and Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, Inc. He also worked as an analyst in the investment banking divisions of Bear Stearns & Co. and BT Securities Corporation.

Outside his investing activities, Quinn serves as a guest lecturer on private equity investing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Quinn received a B.S.E. in Finance, with honors, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.