Charles Wheeler

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Mr. Charles Wheeler serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer at Greenbacker Capital Management. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company. He has also served as a Senior Managing Director of Greenbacker Capital Management ("GCM") and Greenbacker Group LLC since August 2012 (having previously served as a Managing Director of Greenbacker Group LLC since August 2011), and as President and a director of Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation ("GREC") since November 2011. He is a veteran of the investment banking industry having spent 24 years, from 1987 to 2011, with the Macquarie Group, one of Australia's leading investment banks. During that time, he held several senior positions with the Macquarie Group, including Head of Financial Products for North America from 2007 to 2009 and Head of Renewables for North America from 2007 to 2011. From 1998 to 2007, he was a Director of the Financial Products Group at Macquarie in Australia with responsibility for the development, distribution, and ongoing management of a wide variety of retail financial products, including REITs, infrastructure bonds, international investment trusts, and diversified domestic investment trusts. Before joining Macquarie, he was a tax manager with Touche Ross & Co. in Australia (which was merged into KPMG in Australia). He holds a Bachelor of Economics from Sydney University. He was selected to serve as a director because he is our Chief Executive Officer and has significant knowledge of, and relationships within, the project and structured finance industry and the renewable energy sector due to his numerous positions with the Macquarie Group. He also brings his extensive background in project and structured finance to bear on the renewables sector. He has experience working in the solar and wind energy sectors while at Macquarie, including a transaction involving the purchase and subsequent management of a large portfolio of distributed solar assets located in California, the consideration of several proposals to invest equity into solar thermal power plants across the Southwest, the acquisition of a wind developer in Texas, and the evaluation of numerous wind development opportunities across Canada and the United States. Furthermore, during his tenure at Macquarie, he participated in several other renewable energy resource transactions, including a proposal to invest equity into a significant unlisted geothermal developer based in Nevada.