Joan Hutchinson

Managing Director, Offtake Advisory, Marathon Capital

Joan Hutchinson is Managing Director, Offtake Advisory, based out of Marathon Capital's San Francisco office. Ms. Hutchinson has over 25 years of experience in North America energy markets and renewable energy project development. At Marathon Capital, Ms. Hutchinson focuses on commercial and industrial offtake advisory within the energy markets.

Prior to joining Marathon Capital, Ms. Hutchinson was Vice President of Origination & Business Development at Lincoln Clean Energy, LLC . While there, she led the origination efforts for wind, solar and storage projects resulting in over 1600 MW of transactions in the past three years. Many of the transactions Ms. Hutchinson completed were power purchase agreements with first-time corporate buyers.

Prior to Lincoln Clean Energy, LLC., Ms. Hutchinson was SVP Origination & Marketing for Ridgeline Energy LLC, responsible for negotiating contracts for the sale of power and renewable energy credits from renewable projects, as well as leading solar development and the acquisition of wind and solar projects. Ms. Hutchinson was Director Origination at Citigroup Energy Inc. and held various origination and trading positions with Powerex Inc.

Ms. Hutchinson received her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from University of Victoria, Victoria B.C.