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Robert LaFaso leads Ascend Analytics’ Market Intelligence (AscendMI) practice, delivering long-term supply stack, market price, and project economics forecasts that power Ascend’s software suite. Robert's insights guide utilities, developers, and investors in making high-confidence investment and planning decisions. He has led valuation due diligence for multi-gigawatt M&A transactions, including TerraGen’s sale
to Masdar and Origis Energy’s sale to Antin Infrastructure Partners.

Ferdinand Rapant is Commercial Leader for Eastern Merchant Markets and is focused on directing commercial strategy in the developer and IPP client space. Ferdinand's background includes two decades of energy-market expertise and over 6GW of successful power projects across renewables, storage, thermal space, as well as extensive experience in digital transformation with several of the largest IPP's and regulated utilities in the US.
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Erik Schwartz works with financial institutions investing in energy, guiding investment teams through quantitative insights that strengthen asset valuation, portfolio strategy, and long-term decision planning. With more than two decades in energy-market leadership across Refinitiv, EnergyGPS, Energy Ventures Analysis, Genscape, and Point Carbon, Erik developed a skill set centered on market intelligence and commercial development that supports disciplined capital deployment.
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Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligenceand analytics solutions for the power industry. The company’s offerings enabledecision makers in power supply, procurement, and investment markets to plan,operate, monetize, and manage risk across any energy asset portfolio. Fromreal-time to 30-year horizons, their forecasts and insights are at thefoundation of over $50 billion in project financing assessments. Ascendprovides energy market stakeholders with the clarity and confidence to successfullynavigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.