Monday Jul 12, 2021

Being Right isn't always Right. Interview with Peter Leighton, COO and Co-founder of Re Royalties

As a young businessman, Peter thought persuasion meant winning and being right.  In this episode, Peter shares the lessons he has learned that enable him to persuade risk-averse institutional investors and an entirely new industry on the power of AND.

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Peter Leighton is an experienced renewable energy executive with over 20 years of experience in project development and mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of RE Royalties, an innovative finance company specializing in renewable energy. With climate change a pressing issue globally, RE Royalties has become an important source of capital for renewable energy projects. In 2016, RE Royalties officially launched as the first company to take the royalty-financing model, well-proven in other industries, and apply it to the renewable energy sector. RE Royalties is a publicly traded company on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “RE”.

Peter is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Finavera, where he delivered $750 million worth of wind energy projects from the embryonic stages of development through to the ready-to-build stage. He also worked as the Chief Operating Officer of Accenture’s Business Services for Utilities, the Director of Clean Energy B.C. from 2010 to 2016, and Health Shared Services B.C. from 2009 to 2018. In 2020 Peter was named as an Honouree to Canada’s Clean50 for 2020. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (BSc) in Geography/ Geology from Queen’s University and a Master, Business Administration (MBA) from the University of British Columbia.

Peter can be reached at peterleighton@reroyalties.com and you can visit RE Royalties website at www.reroyalties.com for any further information on the company.

 

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