Brian Baltimore

Brian Baltimore is Managing Partner and co-owner of The Telikka Group, a boutique infrastructure-focused transaction advisory which provides project development and project finance advisory services to public and private clients. He has over 15 years of infrastructure project development, financing and implementation experience; primarily in the power and energy sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to devoting himself fully to building The Telikka Group, he was Chief Financial Officer for Endeavor Energy’s Bridge Power Project in Ghana. Endeavor Energy is a leading independent power company focused on developing, acquiring, financing, constructing, owning and operating power generation projects in Africa. Endeavor has mobilized more than $1.6 billion of investment leading to nearly 700MW in three power generation projects under construction with another $4.4 billion of power generation projects under development.

Prior to joining Endeavor Energy, Brian was Lead Transaction Advisor-Nigeria for the Power Africa Transactions & Reform Program (PATRP) where he advised independent power producers, equity investors, development finance institution lenders and the Government of Nigeria on a range of greenfield generation and transmission projects. Mr. Baltimore also worked with ACWA Power International as Executive Manager, developing and structuring the financing for utility-scale thermal and renewable energy projects in Southern Africa. Prior to joining ACWA Power, he was Country Finance Manager for ContourGlobal in Rwanda, responsible for all finance, tax and commercial elements of the company’s flagship power plant under construction in the country.

Mr. Baltimore spent more than a decade working with development finance institutions in project finance and project implementation roles. In 2012, he served as Senior Project Finance Advisor to USAID in Afghanistan during which time he was seconded to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to advise the ADB Country Director on the establishment of a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investment fund. Prior to joining USAID, he spent six years with the Millennium Challenge Corporation in both project finance and project implementation roles. From 2007 – 2011 he was based in Maseru, Lesotho as Deputy Resident Country Director overseeing the implementation of the Lesotho Compact.

Mr. Baltimore began his career as a derivatives analyst in Fleet Boston/Bank of America’s capital markets group. He also worked as senior associate for a US-based boutique merchant bank in the international project finance and structure trade finance groups. Mr. Baltimore served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Eldoret, Kenya from 1999–2001.

He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Corporate Finance & Investment, International Financial Management, Macro/Micro Economics, and African Economic Development at: Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland; McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, and the National University of Lesotho.

He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Political Science from Capital University, a Masters of Arts in Economic Development from The Ohio State University and a Masters of Arts with an emphasis on International Finance & Banking from The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP®)