July 7, 2026 – San Diego, USA – CoralPoint, a pure-play sustainability consulting firm dedicated to the energy transition, today announced that Ali Ghorashi has joined the firm as Partner and Managing Director for Energy Infrastructure Finance and Transactions in North America. Based in CoralPoint’s new San Diego office, Ghorashi will lead the firm’s North American approach to technical due diligence, lender independent engineering services, and transaction advisory support for investors and strategic energy partners.

Ghorashi’s appointment expands CoralPoint’s ability to support clients evaluating, financing, acquiring, developing, owning and operating long-term clean energy assets across North America. His leadership and technical aptitude strengthen CoralPoint’s advisory platform at a time when energy market leaders are navigating rising electricity demand, evolving policy and supply-chain conditions, and heightened expectations for technical and commercial rigor in clean energy investment decisions.

Ali Ghorashi brings 16 years of clean energy experience working across the leading edge of the clean energy transition, helping developers, investors, and lenders bring large-scale energy projects from concept to close. Most recently, Ali served as Senior Vice President for Energy Infrastructure Finance and M&A at DNV, where over the last 11 years, he built and led the largest independent engineering team in North America delivering technical due diligence and IE services that support M&A and project finance.

His expertise spans the full lifecycle of onshore and offshore wind, solar, storage, and thermal generation projects, with growing focus on emerging transition priorities including transmission development, low-carbon molecules, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), and geothermal power. Ali earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath and started his career at GL Garrad Hassan developing advanced wind turbine control algorithms.

Ali will expand CoralPoint’s footprint in North America, working closely with the firm’s existing team in New York City. CoralPoint has collectively worked on thousands of megawatts (MW) of successful mergers and acquisitions across global renewable energy markets, including delivering technical due diligence services on hundreds of MWs of solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in North America, providing a foundation for continued growth in the region.

Left-to-right: CoralPoint’s North America leadership team (Doug Pfeister, Ali Ghorashi, Emily Kuhn-Keaveny, Sebastian Chivers) in San Diego, California

North America’s clean energy market is entering a more disciplined phase. Investors, lenders, utilities, developers, owners and operators are all pursuing growth, but the market increasingly rewards projects and platforms that can demonstrate technical integrity, commercial resilience, and execution certainty. CoralPoint is built to help leaders make those decisions with clarity. Technical due diligence should not only be viewed as a closing requirement; it should be leveraged as a strategic advantage. As clean energy assets become more complex and capital expectations become more exacting, clients need advisors who can connect engineering realities, market conditions, ESG considerations, and commercial outcomes. That is where CoralPoint can make a meaningful difference.” Ali Ghorashi, Partner and Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure Finance & Transactions

“Ali brings the rare combination of technical depth, commercial judgment, and transaction experience that energy leaders need in this next phase of the transformation of our energy systems. His leadership in North America will help CoralPoint provide clients with decision-grade intelligence across M&A, project finance, procurement, ESG diligence, and long-term asset ownership. San Diego is an ideal base for this expansion, given the region’s strong clean technology ecosystem, climate leadership, and connection to the broader North American energy market.” Sebastian Chivers, CoralPoint Group Co-CEO

Ali’s appointment was effective on July 6, 2026, and he will be based from a new CoralPoint office in San Diego, California.