Our Team
- Ken Newcombe, Chief Executive Office & Co-Founder
- Matthew Mendis, Managing Director & Co-Founder
- Isabel Alegre, Operations Director
- Heather Batzel, General Counsel
- Richard Cobbs, Chief Financial Officer
- Joe Vadapalas, Senior Investment Advisor
- Charlie Lord, Senior Project Manager
- Eduardo Ferreira, Senior Operations Manager
Global Strategic Team
CQC LLC
Joe Vadapalas
Joe Vadapalas has twenty years of international private equity and ten years of energy industry experience; beginning as a development engineer for a large U.S. oil company introducing new technologies to production facilities and continuing in project finance for a large money center bank before focusing on private equity identifying, evaluating, closing, monitoring and exiting investments in the U.S., Latin America and Southeast Asia. Recently he assisted a large family office establish an alternative energy funds of funds business in the alternative energy sector. As Senior Investment Advisor to CQC, Joe advises on evaluation, structure and closing of potential investment opportunities.