Mr Lessard previously served as vice president of American operations for Globeleq, where, under his leadership, that company entered the power markets in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. He was directly responsible for negotiating and financing major greenfield and acquisition energy projects in these nations.

Chris Dittmar, CEO of EnDevCo, said: Joe Lessard has 18 years of ‘hands on’ entrepreneurial experience in energy development and power plant operations. His broad business development and structural finance experience will help us accelerate revenue generation from our current asset base in the US and South America.