officers and projects development professionals

JACOB MENAHEM, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER
Jacob Menahem is the Founder and President of Access International Inc. The company was established in order to leverage on Mr. Menahem’s successful track record in securing, structuring, developing and financing privately owned power projects in international environment. Currently Mr. Menahem serves as a team leader on a number of projects under development in emerging markets. Mr. Menahem has been a critical leader in the firm’s project teams that secured our projects in Bulgaria as well as a new project for which the Power Sales Agreements have been completed and two project in a booming Central European economy that are in their advanced documentation phase. Mr. Menahem has over 30 years of successful International marketing and international project development in South East Asia, Europe the United States and Latin America. Multilingual, he is fluent among others in English, French and Bulgarian with a good command of German and some knowledge of Japanese, Spanish and Dutch.

NESSIM FORTE, VICE PRESIDENT MARKETING
Currently in charge of Access International general marketing activities, Mr. Forte joined Access International in 2000 after 22 years of international marketing of power projects in emerging markets in the service of the Ormat Group internationally. A Graduate Engineer, who specialized in Aerodynamics and High Power Lasers before deciding to focus on the Power Generation industry. Mr. Forte has successfully implemented Ormat manufactured power plants and systems, among others, in the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, India, various African countries, The Soviet Union and Guatemala. Mr. Forte has extensive experience in both project management as well as project development and is at present the team leader in the implementation of two of our recent projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Multilingual, Mr. Forte is fluent, among others, in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and has some knowledge of Arabic and German.

HENRY SCHNEPS, VICE PRESIDENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EUROPE
In charge of identifying and securing new projects in the energy sector, Mr. Schneps is currently leading our new business development efforts in Central Europe. With over 20 years of successfully marketing consumer and capital goods in the Eastern European Countries. Mr. Schneps is aggressively pursuing several new business opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe. During his two years with Access International, he has identified and secured two of our present projects that are in their documentation phase. Multilingual, Mr. Schneps is fluent, among others, in English, French and Polish.

ALEXANDER METCHKAROV, HEAD OF ACCESS INTERNATIONAL BULGARIA OFFICE
Head of our Bulgaria office in Sofia Since 1998, Mr. Metchkarov is currently in charge of the Access International interests in our Maritza East 1 Project in Bulgaria. He is the Access International project manager within the Maritza East 1 project development team. Mr. Metchkarov is graduate of the Wroclav Politechnica (Technical University) in Poland and specialized in Computer Engineering, International Economic Relations and Finance Management. Multilingual, Mr. Metchkarov is fluent in Bulgarian, English, Polish and Russian. In addition to his Bulgarian market responsibilities, he participates in our project structuring activities in several Eastern European Countries including the Russian Federation.

ANDRZEJ MANDEL, HEAD OF ACCESS INTERNATIONAL POLAND OFFICE
M. A. degree engineer, Mr. Mandel graduated from the Technical University in Warsaw, Poland and specialized in sources of energy and heating systems. Mr. Mandel has been active at Polish Energy market for over 25 years of "hands on" experience in Poland’s energy market. Since Poland reverted to market economy, 10 years ago, He has been particularly successful in representing in Poland foreign energy companies and their products as an independent consultant. Mr. Mandel is fluent in Polish and has a good command of English.

DANIEL MENAHEM, VICE PRESIDENT PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Currently the head of our Washington D.C. office, Mr. Menahem joined Access International in 1998 after graduating in Finance and Economics from the University of Nevada, Reno. Mr. Menahem has developed extensive expertise in structuring projects into bankable off-take agreements, without sovereign guarantees. His activity as a financial analyst for Access International is channeled to the creation of a variety of financial risk mitigation instruments in replacement of sovereign guarantees in the project that we develop. He led the negotiations and executed our most recent PPA in Eastern Europe in mid 2000 and is in charge of completing the documentation for this project toward project financing.

 

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