We are pleased to announce that together with the Stanford Center for Professional Development, CRGP is co-hosting a 1-day course, "Infrastructure Investment: Project- Level Due Diligence & Analysis",which will take place here at Stanford University on December 2, 2010.

7:30 - 8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 Welcome & Introduction by Paul Marca, Ryan Orr, Jim Meketa
8:30 - 10:00 Assessing the Viability of a Financial Structure by Antonio Vives
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Assessing Risk Mitigation Tools for Demand, Credit, Currency, and Regulatory Risk by Robert Sheppard
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 Analyzing & Auditing Cash Flow Models by John Richter
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:45 Sensitivity & Scenario Analysis: Concepts, Tricks & Tips by John Richter
5:00 - Cocktail Hour
If you have questions about the course, please contact Stanford University Course Director, Ryan Orr by telephone at (650)575-9365 or alternatively by email at rjorr@stanford.edu
INSTRUCTOR BIOS

John Richter
John has over 20 years experience in industry and project finance, nearly all that time directly or indirectly involved with financial modeling. He graduated from Princeton University with a BSc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and worked for a manufacturing and venture capital firm for six years before graduating from Harvard Business School and joining Bechtel Enterprises in 1992. In 1995 Bechtel co-founded InterGen, an independent power producer. John transferred to the new company at its inception as a Director in its finance group. In 1999 John co-founded F1F9, a financial modeling services company that focused initially on training and soon grew to supporting organizations in numerous aspects of modeling. As well as co-developing F1F9's approach to financial modeling, John was F1F9's principal instructor and led the development of proprietary software used for checking models. A combination of John's industry knowledge, technical know-how, and accessible teaching style made his financial modeling training courses extremely popular. John continues delivering courses for Financial Mechanics as one of its principal instructors. John is a Visiting Scholar at the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University.
Robert Sheppard
Robert Sheppard is Co-Chair of the Infrastructure Experts and INFRADEV, a private sector initiative launched by the United Nations in 2002 to advance public-private sector collaboration and risk-sharing in infrastructure development and finance. Over the last 30 years, Mr. Sheppard has advised international and entrepreneurial private sector companies, multilateral development banks, and governments on developing and financing infrastructure projects, using his skills as an attorney and investment banker. Mr. Sheppard previously served as Co-Head of the Global Project Finance Group at Bank of America, where his work covered syndicated bank loans, private placements, capital markets, and a wide variety of financial advisory assignments. His innovative project finance deal for AES in Tietê Brazil won the Infrastructure Journal Project Finance Deal of the Year Award in 2002. He has worked extensively in Africa and Central America, including Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica. His assignments have included mapping infrastructure needs, assisting domestic financial institutions in evaluating their capacity to provide local currency financing, representing governments in negotiations with international developers, and developing innovative risk mitigation approaches. Mr. Sheppard also teaches international project finance in the business school at the University of South Carolina and serves as a Visiting Scholar at Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University.
Antonio Vives
Antonio is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and directs a consulting firm on Infrastructure Finance and Corporate Social Responsibility. He was manager of Sustainable Development and also Deputy Manager of Infrastructure and Financial Markets at the Inter-American Development Bank. Was with the Bank for 28 years in operations and in strategy and best practice research. Has taught corporate finance at several graduate schools of business in the United States, including George Washington University, Virginia Tech and Carnegie Mellon. He has authored a textbook on corporate financial evaluation, published more than 100 articles on finance, management, corporate social responsibility, and infrastructure (including Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public Private Partnerships). Mr. Vives, a Chemical Engineer, holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance and Capital Markets from Carnegie Mellon University.

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