David G. Frantz - Acting Executive Director, LPO; Acting Director, ATVM

David Frantz currently serves as Acting Executive Director of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office and Acting Director of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVM), overseeing application review, due diligence, negotiation, environmental compliance and performance tracking. Prior to LPO, Mr. Frantz worked at Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), where he managed a team with worldwide responsibilities for closing financial transactions helping U.S. businesses invest overseas and promoting economic development in new and emerging markets. Mr. Frantz also worked at Advance Capital Markets, a Washington, D.C. based investment banking firm specializing in international project and corporate finance, principally in the energy and power industries. Mr. Frantz brings over 40 years of worldwide experience in project finance, holding positions of senior responsibility with several private sector development and engineering/construction companies. He began his career with the international division of Gulf Oil Corporation and served in the oil and gas industries for over 10 years before becoming directly involved in the independent power industry in 1983.

Mr. Frantz earned two master’s degrees in International Economics and International Business respectively from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. and commission in the U.S. Navy from the Virginia Military Institute. Mr. Frantz also completed postgraduate work at the Harvard Business School.

Susan Richardson - Chief Counsel, LPO

Susan Richardson is Chief Counsel of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. Ms. Richardson has over 25 years of experience as a transactional lawyer, with deep experience in both domestic and international finance, including project, corporate and mezzanine finance. Before joining the Loan Guarantee Program in 2009, Ms. Richardson was Of Counsel in the Washington D.C. office of O’Melveny & Myers, where she had practiced, initially as an associate and later as a partner, since 1983. While on leave from O’Melveny in 1986-87, Ms. Richardson served as Acting General Counsel of Skyline Financial Services in connection with the Chapter 11 reorganization of a portfolio of real estate limited partnerships. From 1994 to 1998, Ms. Richardson again took a break from private practice, serving as Associate General Counsel of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), where she was the chief legal advisor to OPIC’s emerging markets investment funds program. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Richardson served as a law clerk to Judge William A. Norris, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Before her legal career, Ms. Richardson worked in the field of public transportation, holding various positions in local government agencies, as well as the U.S. Department of Transportation, in Boston.

Ms. Richardson earned her B.A in Italian Language and Literature at Smith College. She holds a M.A. in City Planning from Harvard University and earned her J.D. at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Frances I. Nwachuku - Director of Portfolio Management, LPO

Frances I. Nwachuku is the Director of Portfolio Management for the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. Ms. Nwachuku is a senior risk manager with over 20 years of international and U.S. domestic experience in infrastructure, project and corporate debt financing. Before joining the Department of Energy in July 2010, Ms. Nwachuku served, for five years, as Vice President of Asset Management at the Export Import Bank of the United States overseeing the monitoring of active transactions (project finance, transportation, and large corporate credits), the processing and paying of claims, the restructuring of defaulted credits, and the Bank’s recovery efforts. Before assuming that position in 2005, Ms. Nwachuku served as the Asset Management Division’s founding Managing Director of Asset Monitoring & Restructuring and managed a $40.5 billion global project finance, transportation and structured finance portfolio.

Prior to entering the public sector, Ms. Nwachuku was Vice President at NCB Development Corp., Washington, D.C.; Credit Department Manager at the National Cooperative Bank, Washington, D.C.; Senior Analyst at Midlantic National Bank (now part of PNC Bank), Edison, N.J.; and Legal Counsel at the Federal Mortgage Bank, Sokoto, Nigeria.

Ms. Nwachuku holds a master’s degree in Finance from Michigan State University and a J.D. (LL.B, B.L.) from the University of Nigeria in Enugu.

Dong Kwun Kim - Chief Engineer, LGP

Mr. Kim is Chief Engineer, Director of Technical and Project Management, for the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. His responsibilities include overseeing the innovation and technology evaluations for all projects submitted under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. Currently, over 100 projects and loan applications ranging from multi-billion dollar nuclear facilities to small independent renewable energy initiatives are under review by his organization.

Mr. Kim has been a senior project manager with over 20 years leading and managing successful complex engineering and technological development programs. As Federal Project Director to the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, he successfully achieved NRC certification of licensing support network for the Yucca Mountain Project enabling the submittal of the Yucca Mountain Repository License Application in June 2007. Mr. Kim was a senior policy advisor to numerous Program Secretarial Officers appointed during Clinton administration. He past experience also includes work for the U.S Department of Navy as a senior project engineer.

Mr. Kim has a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from George Washington University, a master’s of Environmental Management, also from George Washington University, Washington, DC, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Matthew McMillen - Director of Environmental Compliance, LPO

Matthew McMillen serves as the Director of Environmental Compliance for the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office and brings over 28 years of experience in environmental impact analysis and program management to the Program. In addition to this role, he serves as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance Officer for the Program where he oversees the Program’s NEPA review and compliance processes, including consultations and coordination with other federal agencies and tribes.

Before joining DOE in 2008, Mr. McMillen spent seven years with the Federal Aviation Administration heading up the agency’s NEPA program in the Office of Environment & Energy. Prior to this, he spent 20 years as a senior environmental scientist with three Washington environmental consulting firms managing environmental reviews and the preparation of NEPA documents and related guidance. Mr. McMillen was also a member of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA Task Force. He is a principal author of several CEQ guidance documents including “Considering Cumulative Effects Under the National Environmental Policy Act” and “Modernizing NEPA Implementation: The NEPA Task Force Report to The Council On Environmental Quality,” and “Aligning NEPA Processes with Environmental Management Systems.”

Mr. McMillen earned a Master of Science in Natural Resource Development from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Michigan State.

Douglas Schultz - FIPP Program Manager/Sr. Investment Officer, LGP

Douglas Schultz is a Program Manager in the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, focusing on loan origination. Mr. Schultz has been active as a consultant, developer and lender in the energy and infrastructure sectors for over 20 years. His portfolio responsibilities include both innovative and commercial projects.

Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Schultz was a Senior Investment Officer with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and was Manager of Project Development and Finance with KMR Power Corporation, a global independent power company, where he directed the company’s development and financing of greenfield power projects and acquisitions throughout the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He began his career as a consultant with the international management and economic consulting firm of Nathan Associates.

Daniel C. Tobin - Intake Program Manager/Sr. Investment Officer, LGP

Dan Tobin heads up the In-Take Review Division within the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. Mr. Tobin brings over 13 years of combined public and private sector experience in the renewable energy, finance and environmental field. Mr. Tobin manages the financial in-take review and is involved in negotiating and underwriting transactions within the organization. As one of the original members of the Loan Programs Office, Mr. Tobin was involved in the early formulation and implementation of the program in 2006 and 2007.

Before joining the Department, Mr. Tobin worked at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy conducting financial and policy analysis to deploy non-conventional, off the grid renewable energy technologies throughout the United States and abroad. He has specialized technical and financial experience in the renewable energy space, and has reviewed over 400 renewable energy limited recourse and non-recourse project finance transactions. His experience includes specialized knowledge in the renewable energy technology investment space, specialized renewable energy technology and policy analysis, and renewable energy credit risk evaluation and risk mitigation.

Mr. Tobin possesses a bachelor’s degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware.