Michael Park
Michael Park is a Senior Investment Analyst for the Loan Guarantee Program Office at the United States Department of Energy (DOE). At DOE, he is responsible for financial analysis, loan structuring, negotiations, and project management with respect for utility-scale renewable energy project finance transactions throughout the U.S. He covers project finance transactions from all industry types including solar, wind, and advanced biofuels.
Prior to DOE, Michael was an Assistant Vice President of Structured Finance at the National Cooperative Bank (NCB). Here, he also served as the Senior Program Manager for Renewable Energy project finance. He covered underwriting and relationship management of renewable energy projects and tax credit finance transactions for a variety of industries. Prior to this, he served as Assistant Vice President at NCB in the commercial real estate underwriting department. There, he underwrote commercial real estate transactions for all property types. Prior to joining NCB, he was a finance analyst/graduate intern at The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) where he conducted credit and financial due diligence analysis for various project finance transactions in Russia, Latvia and the Czech Republic.
Previously, Michael held positions as a lending consultant at CitiMortgage, and as a Vice President at The Corporate Finance Institute (CFI). At CFI he screened over 140 early-stage companies, assessed their product/service concepts, milestones, funding needs and management teams to make funding recommendations to private venture capitalists.
Michael obtained his BA in International Relations with a concentration in East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University and his MBA from the George Washington University with a concentration in Finance and International Business.