Title Member Company Mintz Levin Bio R.J. is a Member of Mintz Levin and Senior Advisor to ML Strategies. R.J. provides clients with strategic guidance drawing on experience as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, government policy maker, political advisor, and private practice attorney. Due to the diversity of these roles, he counsels clients with hands-on advice when they face complex business, regulatory, and legal issues. R.J. previously served as president and chief operating officer of a venture-backed energy technology company that, during his tenure, raised over $75 million in funding, deployed its first commercial-scale prototype, entered into strategic arrangements with several multinational industrial counterparties, and entered into a successful change of control transaction. He is also co-founder of an independent power producer, on whose board he continues. R.J.’s prior work includes service as Massachusetts Assistant Environmental Secretary and MEPA Director under Governors Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci. In those roles, he oversaw the office responsible for environmental review of all major public and private development projects in the Commonwealth, including the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (aka the “Big Dig”), Logan Airport Expansion, Boston Harbor Cleanup, power plants and other energy facilities related to electric industry restructuring, and millions of square feet of commercial real estate development. R.J. was also in charge of Governor Weld’s Permit Streamlining Initiative, which governed all state approval processes at the Departments of Environmental Protection (DEP), Highways (MHD, now DOT), Capital Planning and Operations (DCPO, now DCAM), and other environmental agencies. R.J. led the first ever, comprehensive revisions of the Commonwealth’s environmental review regulations, which Governor Cellucci adopted as a key reform in the administration’s effort to implement more business-friendly regulatory programs and policies. After leaving government, R.J. was an equity partner for over a decade at an Am Law 50 law firm, where he advised clients pursuing major real estate and other development projects in markets nationally and internationally. During that time, R.J. represented a major actor — landowner, developer, anchor tenant, capital source — in virtually every major development project in Massachusetts as well as a host of projects elsewhere. R.J. began his career as a project manager at a consulting engineering concern advising project development proponents in the real estate and energy sectors.