Principals & Advisors

Brian Danielewicz

Brian Danielewicz

Mr. Danielewicz is a Principal based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining USRG, Mr. Danielewicz worked at JPMorgan Securities in Chicago focusing on M&A for the General Industries Investment Banking coverage group. Mr. Danielewicz gained private equity experience while working for The Carlyle Group's venture fund in Washington, DC, international experience at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and project finance and power industry experience while in the corporate finance department at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. As an investment banker, Mr. Danielewicz raised over $20 billion of debt and $7 billion of equity for clients. Additionally, Mr. Danielewicz's investment experience includes structuring, analyzing and closing private debt and equity investment valued at over $2 billion.

Mr. Danielewicz holds an MBA from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and an AB in Economics from Princeton University.

Tim Newell

Tim Newell

Mr. Newell is a Senior Advisor based in San Francisco. Mr. Newell has more than 20 years of private equity, investment banking, and government experience. Prior to joining USRG in 2009, Mr Newell was a Managing Director and Head of the Clean Technology Strategy Group for Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., a San Francisco-based investment banking firm, where he was responsible for developing the firm's merchant banking business and served as a member of the management committee. Prior to joining Merriman Curhan Ford, he was a Managing Director with DFJ Element, a clean technology affiliate fund of global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was previously Chief Operating Officer of Olympius Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm; Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for E*Offering, a technology investment bank launched in partnership with E*Trade and successfully sold in 2000; and successively a Vice President and Principal of Robertson Stephens, where he led an investment banking group focused on the intersection of technology and regulated industries. Prior to his investment career, Mr. Newell served in a number of positions in the U.S. government, most recently from 1993-1997 on the White House staff of President Bill Clinton, where he served primarily as Deputy Director for Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Newell served for six years as a Congressional staff member, including successively as Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, and Washington Staff Director for then-U.S. Representative Norman Mineta representing California's Silicon Valley.

Mr. Newell received a BA in Economics from Brown University.

Kefu Fu

Kefu Fu

Dr. Fu is a Senior Advisor based in China He has more than 10 years of consulting and business development experience in China's technology, healthcare and financial sectors. Before joining USRG in 2010 he was a partner at Asia Pacific Technology Group and President of The Dexterity Company (TDC), each a consulting practice specializing in strategy, marketing and business development in Asian/Chinese markets with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to private equity/venture capital firms. Dr. Fu also served as Head of China at WellPoint, one of the largest global insurance companies and a Fortune-50 company, and oversaw its market entry into China. Dr. Fu holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management as a distinguished Venture Fellow, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Clemson University, which he earned with honors while covering research topics related to carbon material energy applications, fuel cells and energy storage, and a B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry from Tongji University in Shanghai. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications on carbon in journals such as Accounts of Chemical Research (ACR) and Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS), and is a regular guest speaker at both the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society annual meetings.

Edward May

Edward May

Mr. May is a Principal based in New York. While getting advanced degrees at Duke University, Mr. May interned with General Electric (NYSE: GE) ("GE") in their Renewable Energy Leadership Program, Carolina Green Energy (local renewable energy developer) and Self-Help Ventures Fund (local sustainable venture fund). Prior to Duke, Mr. May was an Investment Banking Associate at Lehman Brothers, Inc. ("Lehman") in New York and one of the original members of their Sports Advisory and Finance Group. Transaction experience at Lehman included complex structured financings, debt and equity placements as well as M&A advisory for major sports teams and leagues. This included leading the largest sports finance and advisory transaction to date, Dan Snyder's acquisition of the Washington Redskins.

Mr. May holds an MBA and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Political Science with a minor in Biology.

Lachlan Mclean

Lachlan Mclean

Mr. McLean is a Principal based in Los Angeles whose responsibilities include new business development, investment analysis and execution, portfolio oversight, and fund raising. Before joining USRG, Mr. McLean worked in project management and marketing at Bloom Energy, a venture-backed distributed power generation company. Mr. McLean's prior investment experience includes forming, raising, and investing a private equity fund within Thomas Weisel Partners' Asset Management group focused on distressed investments in energy technology, software, and communications companies. Mr. McLean began his career in the investment banking industry at both Barclays Capital and Thomas Weisel Partners providing financing and advisory services.

Mr. McLean in active in the management and boards of Oski Energy, Novo Development Company, and SolarReserve and leads USRG’s business development efforts in numerous sectors including solar, waste-to-energy, geothermal, and energy agriculture. Additionally, Mr. McLean manages USRG’s international business development efforts.

Mr. McLean holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.