Our Team

AJ Goulding, President

AJ Goulding founded Ampersand Energy Partners in 2003 to pursue investment opportunities in the power sector. AJ is also the President of London Economics International LLC (LEI), a global economic and financial professional services firm, focusing on the energy and infrastrucure industries. In 2000, he led a management buyout of LEI.

AJ has advised on the successful acquisition of several billions of dollars in power sector assets worldwide and has worked with regulators to design power markets. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York where he teaches a course on power markets.

Two Centuries of Experience

All Ampersand managers have unique sets of skills that are key to project success. Through LEI, Ampersand has access to a number of professionals who have been working full time over the past years with AJ, advising on a wide range of projects surrounding power market issues around the globe. Ampersand and LEI consultants have provided FERC and state regulatory testimony, modeled wholesale price outcomes in all North American markets, worked with numerous public and private sector companies regarding market power issues, and provided negotiation and litigation support regarding a host of power sector contractual issues. In addition, years of involvement in power markets have provided a strong network of contacts among power marketers, power sector legal advisors, plant operators, debt financers, and other industry investors. This set of relationships is critical both in helping to identify opportunities and to cost-effectively capitalize on them. Collectively, LEI officers have over two centuries of experience in liberalizing power markets.

In all of its endaveours, Ampersand is seeking to work closely with regional operators and local staff. Ampersand strives to identify project-specific teams of both qualified asset managers and experienced plant operators with great familiarity with the actual assets to ensure successful start-up and operation.