Board of Directors

Gerrit Nicholas
Director
Gerrit Nicholas is the Chief Investment Officer, Co-Founder and a Managing Partner at OIC and is responsible for leading the firm’s investment activities. Gerrit is Chair of the Investment Allocation Committee, Chair of the ESG Committee, a member of the Operating Committee, and a member of all OIC Investment Committees. Prior to founding OIC, Gerrit spent six years as President and Managing Partner of K Road DG and K Road Power where he led the acquisition and development of renewable energy and power storage companies / assets. Prior to that, Gerrit spent six years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Head of Environmental Commodity Sales where he led Goldman’s U.S. renewable energy and carbon market transactions, structuring commodity linked credit, and equity transactions for Goldman and its clients. While at Goldman Sachs, he also led commodity risk management and commodity linked capital raising activities for the U.S. municipal and cooperative power sectors. Previously, Gerrit headed development and merger and acquisition activities for The AES Corporation in Southern Europe. While at AES, Gerrit’s activities focused on the company’s investments in thermal and renewable generation assets, natural gas, and LNG infrastructure.

Ethan Shoemaker
Director
Ethan Shoemaker is Investment Partner and is responsible for leading OIC’s Infra Credit platform. Ethan manages OIC’s office in Houston and is a voting member of the Investment Committees for Infra Credit and Infra Growth and a voting member of the ESG Committee. Prior to joining OIC, Ethan was in the Natural Resources Group of Goldman Sachs' investment banking division, where he provided M&A and financing advisory services to Goldman’s power and utility clients with a specific focus on generation assets. Prior to joining the investment banking division, Ethan worked in Goldman’s commodity structuring and risk management business (J. Aron & Co.) where he worked with corporate and financial sponsor clients to structure commodity hedge and commodity-linked financing products.

Matthew Kondratowicz
Managing Director and member of the dedicated Infrastructure Credit team at OIC
Matt Kondratowicz is Managing Director and member of the dedicated Infrastructure Credit team at OIC, a private investment firm founded in 2015 that provides debt, equity and growth-capital solutions to middle-market infrastructure businesses. He has been seconded to Grapevine Energy Holdings, LLC, a vertically integrated renewable fuels company, where he serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Board Member following the company’s successful emergence from Chapter 11 restructuring.
Prior to joining full-time, Matt served as an advisor to OIC, including assisting in the execution of the Bakersfield Renewable Fuels investment.
Previously, Matt spent 7 years at CSL Capital Management, where he led numerous buyouts, growth equity, corporate carve-outs, and de novo investments in the energy sector. Prior to that he spent two years as Vice President at the Deutsche Bank Masdar Cleantech Fund and two years as Associate at Citi Sustainable Development Investments; in both roles he provided growth equity to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure companies. Over his career, Mr. Kondratowicz has played a leading role in transactions totaling over $2.0 billion in capital.
Matt started his career as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York focusing on international trade, economic development, and global energy markets

Igor Radomyshelsky
Senior Vice President and member of the dedicated Infrastructure Credit team at OIC
Igor Radomyshelsky is Senior Vice President and member of the dedicated Infrastructure Credit team at OIC, a private investment firm founded in 2015 that provides debt, equity and growth-capital solutions to middle-market infrastructure businesses. He has been seconded to Grapevine Energy Holdings, LLC, a vertically integrated renewable fuels company, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member following the company’s successful emergence from Chapter 11 restructuring.
Prior to joining OIC, Igor was Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division where he spent three years as a member of the Natural Resources Group in London, and two years with the Technology Group in San Francisco. During his time there, Igor provided M&A, financing, and activism defense advisory services to clients in the energy, power and utilities, infrastructure, oil field services, industrial software, and mobility sectors with a focus on the energy transition.
Prior to Goldman Sachs, Igor worked for Royal Dutch Shell where he restructured financial reporting procedures for the US upstream business, managed the construction, commissioning, and startup of the largest refinery in North America, and executed strategic transactions as a member of the corporate M&A team.

Michael Yang
Director
Michael Yang is Group Vice Chairman and Chairman of CTCI, he is responsible for guiding management in setting CTCI's crucial goals and strategies; exercising accountability for global operations and business expansion according to the Board. He previously served as Vice Chairman, President, Executive Vice President, and Senior Vice President of CTCI Corporation. Michael holds an MBA from the EMBA Program in Business Administration at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tatung University.

Todd Chen
Director

Brian Coffman
Brian Coffman currently serves on the Board of TPC Group (a petrochemicals manufacturing company) where he also serves as the Chairman of the HSE Committee. He also serves on the Board of Idaho Asphalt Supply, one of the largest asphalt suppliers west of the Rockies, as well as Grapevine Energy Holdings, a renewable fuels company. Coffman is on the Advisory Board of Imubit (a Deep Learning Process Control technology), and serves on The National Advisory Board of the Jon M Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
Coffman is the former President and CEO of Motiva, a position he held from January 2018 through July 2022. Motiva is a $40 billion a year revenue company in the US refining, petrochemicals, marketing, and midstream industry.
In this role, Brian was passionate and instrumental in strengthening the company's culture of safety, reliability, teamwork, empowerment, and operational excellence across the company. Under his leadership, Motiva entered the petrochemicals business with the acquisition of Flint Hills Resources Port Arthur; achieved record-setting safety and reliability performance at the Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex, which is the largest in North America, grew marketing and sales, and established international trading.
He has 40 years of industry experience in operating and executive leadership positions across the petroleum industry, having worked in Venezuela, the United Kingdom, and various locations throughout the United States.
Prior to role at Motiva, Coffman served as Senior Vice President, Refining, for Andeavor (now part of Marathon Petroleum) leading the operation of 10 refineries located throughout the western United States from 2013 through 2017.
Coffman began his career with Conoco in 1983. While at Conoco, he served in a variety of capacities and locations including Upgrader General Manager and executive committee member at Petrozuata in Venezuela; President of ConocoPhillips Pipeline in Houston, Texas; General Manager of Bayway Refinery in New Jersey; and General Manager, Humber Refinery, and Lead UK executive in the United Kingdom.
He formerly served as an executive director on Motiva’s board, he also served on the board and executive committee of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), the board of the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the board of the Greater Houston Partnership.
Coffman received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Brigham Young University and a Master of Business Administration from Utah State University.
Following high school, he served eight years in the United States Air Force.