Vice President
SolarCity
Project Finance
3055 Clearview Way
San Mateo
CAUSA
94404
Biographical Sketch: Ben Cook is responsible for originating and structuring financing for SolarCity's residential and commercial solar projects. Ben joined SolarCity with more than fifteen years of experience in energy project financing and development for solar and traditional energy projects. Prior to SolarCity, Ben was vice president of finance at Recurrent Energy, a distributed utility-scale solar project developer. Prior to Recurrent, he served as director of structured finance and business development in SunPower Corporation's systems division. Prior to SunPower, Ben developed and financed projects for Bechtel Enterprises, the project finance and project development group of the Bechtel construction group. Earlier in his career, Ben started and ran SELCO, a solar power developer, financier, and operator focused on emerging markets. Ben holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and bachelors degrees in physics and economics from the University of Virginia.