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Good Energies Appoints John Breckenridge As a Managing Director

Posted on: Monday, 17 December 2007, 09:00 CST

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Energies, a leading global investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry, announced today that John Breckenridge has joined the firm as a Managing Director. He will be based in New York.

Mr. Breckenridge joins Good Energies from CCMP Capital Advisors, formerly known as J.P. Morgan Partners, where he served as Operating Partner and Managing Director in both Tokyo and New York. During his seven years at the firm, Mr. Breckenridge was responsible for leading many of the firm's portfolio companies, as well as advising on all aspects of the purchase and sales of investments in the U.S., Asia and Europe.

While at CCMP Capital Advisors, Mr. Breckenridge led the development of companies in the renewable energy, traditional energy, industrial service, manufacturing and chemicals sectors, among others. He also provided guidance to companies expanding into China or other Asian countries.

"We are pleased to be adding such an experienced investment professional with global renewable energy expertise to the Good Energies team," said Richard Kauffman, Chief Executive Officer of Good Energies. "We look forward to benefitting from his great familiarity with identifying companies with long term growth potential and assisting them with their development."

"I am excited to join Good Energies and its experienced renewable energy investment team," said Mr. Breckenridge. "Good Energies is a leader in the clean technology investing space and I look forward to further expanding its breadth of investment capabilities."

Previously, Mr. Breckenridge was the Chief Operating Officer of Densei Lambda KK, and prior to that he held a number of senior executive positions at Invensys plc.

Mr. Breckenridge, 45, received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont followed by graduate study at Rutgers University.

About Good Energies

Good Energies (http://www.goodenergies.com/) is a leading global investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry focusing on investments in solar energy, wind energy, green buildings and load management. Good Energies is a member of COFRA Group, a privately owned group of companies. Good Energies is looking for meaningful investments with outstanding growth potential. Good Energies is guided by the 3-P-principle (3-Ps): people-planet-profit. Being an investment firm it seeks to help drive the transition to a low carbon, clean energy economy globally, including bringing affordable renewable energy to the developing world. Good Energies operates globally with offices in London, New York, Toronto, Washington, and Zug. The current market capitalization of its portfolio is more than five billion Euros (seven billion US dollars).

Good Energies

CONTACT: Media, Dr. Alexander Rohde, Corporate Secretary-Spokesperson,Good Energies, +41-41-560-66-60, alexander.rohde@goodenergies.com; or NorthAmerica Media, Nadine Slater of The Abernathy MacGregor Group,+1-212-371-5999, ncs@abmac.com, for Good Energies

Web site: http://www.goodenergies.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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