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The Team

Builders, operators, and owners.

BrightPower is led by a team that has built solar plants, run operating businesses, and structured the kind of long-horizon capital this project requires. Every principal has personal capital in the platform.

Leadership.

Five principals share day-to-day responsibility for the BrightPower platform and the BrightEloy buildout.

Scott McLaine
Founder & CEO

Scott McLaine

Founder and architect of the BrightPower platform. Leads strategy, capital structure, and the BrightEloy buildout from origination through exit.

Bryan McCormick
Proposed President & Chief Solar Officer, BrightEloy

Bryan McCormick

Proposed to lead engineering and delivery of BrightEloy's generation stack: solar design, EPC selection, and the sub-LLC commissioning sequence across the 30 BS units.

Chris Hale
Chief Operating Officer

Chris Hale

Owns site operations, construction, and the day-to-day execution of the buildout. Translates the platform plan into a working facility on the desert floor.

Porter Shumway
VP, Limited Partner Relations

Porter Shumway

Lead point of contact for prospective LPs and operating partners. Shepherds qualification, onboarding, and the LP experience across the lifecycle of each sub-LLC.

Rick Krause
VP, New Business Development

Rick Krause

Originates corridor partnerships, vendor relationships, and the long-term offtake pipeline. Builds the relationships that turn the parcel into a platform.

How the platform is structured.

Each 10 MW sub-LLC sits inside a larger platform structure. BrightPower is the parent. BrightBTC operates compute and mining. Each BS unit (BS1 through BS30) is its own operating LLC with its own LPs.

BrightPower organizational chart

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