Kassia Yanosek is an advisor to the Electric Power Commercialization Finance Project (EPCF).  She has over a decade of corporate and private equity investment experience in the energy markets, with expertise spanning energy technology, power and infrastructure, and refining and marketing.

She is the Founding Principal of Tana Energy Capital, an energy investment and advisory firm, and a principal with Quadrant Management, an investment firm with $3 billion under management. In addition to her investment activity, Kassia is a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of energy technology commercialization and finance.

Previously, Yanosek was a vice president and member of the senior investment team at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a $1 billion New York- and London-based private equity fund investing in renewable energy companies, and a strategy manager at BP plc in London, where she was responsible for long-term strategic analysis around BP's upstream downstream, and renewable energy portfolios.

She began her career at Bechtel Enterprises, the private equity arm of Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco, where she structured equity investments in power and infrastructure assets. In 2005, she served in the George W. Bush White House as an advisor on energy and economic policy at the National Economic Council and National Security Council.

She holds a joint MBA/MPA from Stanford Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School, a joint degree program she pioneered between the two schools, and a BA with Distinction from the University of Virginia. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and young son.