Our Mission

Moe Hajabed is a pioneering member of the energy storage industry with years of corporate and technological development experience.

In 2016, Moe founded NRStor C&I, which became the largest behind-the-meter energy storage developer, owner, and operator in Canada. Moe successfully raised multiple rounds of capital from two major investors, led the company’s expansion into the U.S., and negotiated a groundbreaking partnership with Honeywell – creating the largest C&I battery storage deployment program in the world, and the first performance guarantee product in the energy storage industry. In 2020, Moe led NRStor C&I’s successful acquisition by Blackstone Energy Partners and rebrand as Aypa Power – helping accelerate the company’s growth and expansion into utility-scale development across the North American market.

Prior to leading Aypa Power, Moe served as Senior Vice President with Active Energy, a wholesale natural gas and electricity supplier, where he initiated and led the company’s commercial & industrial business. During his tenure, he successfully completed numerous acquisitions, spearheaded and grew the company’s P&L, and managed a dispersed team across trading, risk management, technology, operations, legal and regulatory, origination, sales and back office functions.

Moe graduated from Queen’s University with a BAS, Engineering Chemistry (First Class Honors), and holds a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University.

Christie has more than a decade of experience in large-scale energy and infrastructure development and risk management across North America. Since joining Aypa, Christie has led all legal, regulatory, and human resource matters, including structuring its groundbreaking Honeywell energy storage partnership, a 2019 Deal of the Year finalist for the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards.

Christie previously maintained a private practice at Torys LLP, with a focus on utility-scale renewable energy and transmission projects, P3 infrastructure, and Indigenous partnerships. She represented the Canadian Bar Association at the COP15 and COP16 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations, and is a former Executive Committee member of the Climate Change Lawyers Network. Christie also serves as Past Chair of the Board of Teach For Canada, a non-profit organization that partners with First Nations to improve educational equality.

Christie holds a J.D. (Hons.) from the University of Toronto and is called to the bars of New York, Ontario, and the Northwest Territories.

Swaraj Jammalamadaka is a recognized leader and a subject matter expert in the energy and utilities industry. As Aypa’s Chief Technology Officer, Swaraj is responsible for extracting value through EPC, Transmission & Commercial Analytics, Resource and IT streams. Prior to joining Aypa, Swaraj was Vice President of Transmission & Market Fundamentals at Apex Clean Energy, where he was responsible for delivering strategic growth through grid modeling, fundamental analysis and risk management. Swaraj was also part of devising corporate strategy related to the development, financing, marketing of over 4GW of utility scale renewable energy projects.

While at Apex, Swaraj founded Swatt Energy, a consulting and advisory services company with clients in Asia, the Middle East and North America. Swatt Energy has supported project transactions totaling more than two billion dollars.

Prior to Apex, Swaraj held multiple engineering positions at Midcontinent ISO in Generation Interconnection & Transmission Planning and was involved in long term transmission infrastructure planning with multiple investor-owned utilities in the Midwest.

Swaraj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Power Systems & Control Engineering.

Marc is a finance executive with 15 years of experience in the power generation sector, working across technologies and macroeconomic cycles. While helping build industry leading platforms, he has supported the successful development and overseen the financing, acquisition and divestiture of over 3,000 megawatts of storage, wind, gas and solar projects. Marc leads Aypa’s finance, accounting, treasury and investor relations matters.

Before joining Aypa Power, Marc served as Managing Director of FTI Consulting’s Power & Utilities practice. Prior to that, he ran NextGen Finance & Strategy LLC, an independent renewable energy consulting practice, and earlier in his career, Marc served as CFO of 8minutenergy Renewables, and VP of Finance and Director of International Development for Invenergy. Marc began his career as the lead trader for a highly successful commodities fund.

Marc holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and a B.A. Economics from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.

Dan leads the commercial, market operations and origination functions at Aypa.

He is an energy industry executive with 20+ years of experience in the power industry in both traditional energy markets and renewable energy markets. Dan has built successful teams which have directly resulted in over 2300MWh of storage sales (both stand-alone and hybrid projects), most of which with highly innovative commercial structures. He has been involved with storage in PJM, CAISO, NY and ERCOT since its early deployments in 2010.

Before joining Aypa Power, Dan served as the Vice President of Markets Strategies & Risk for AES Clean Energy. Prior to that he built the commercial and storage team for sPower, a leading renewable developer as the Vice President of Trading, Markets & Pricing. Earlier in his career Dan held a variety commercial and risk positions within the AES Corporation.

Dan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Sam has more than 15 years of experience developing renewable energy and storage projects in both WECC and across the US. As the Executive Vice President of Development, he leads all of Aypa’s development activities.

Before joining Aypa Power, Sam directed development of EDP Renewables’ western region where he and team built a 10 gigawatt solar pipeline and oversaw the development and construction turnover of over 600 MW of wind and solar projects. As well, he directed development on over 700 MW of greenfield solar storage hybrid projects which secured offtake and began construction in 2022.

Sam holds a B.S. in Natural Resources Management from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a M.S. in Geography from Oregon State University.