Douglas D. Wilner is managing partner of D. Wilner & Associates LP and president and chief executive officer of U.S. Syngas Inc. Wilner has more than 25 years of senior management experience in the energy business, including developing projects and founding several private companies. He has developed and financed projects for a range of sponsors, developers and trading companies, including energy merchants Duke and LG&E, electric cooperatives Associated Electric and Oglethorpe, and large industrial firms.
In the 1990s Mr. Wilner founded and served as the president and CEO of Pipeline Power Partners LP, a Robert Bass Group company. He also participated in developing a series of gas-fired, combined-cycle power plants, and developed and financed power projects using natural gas, coal and various biomass sources. In addition, he was the first president and CEO of Enron Power Capital. In 1981 Mr. Wilner was a member of a team that developed and financed one of the first merchant ethanol facilities, a plant in Walhalla, North Dakota, which is currently owned by Archer Daniels Midland. |