Gary V. Awad, founder of ThreeG Capital, has over thirty years of experience in international business development, with extensive business relationships in Southeast Asia, Turkey, the Middle East, Africa and Europe and with commercial skills in:

  New business and project development
  Commercial negotiations and deal structuring
  International alliance and partnership relationships
  Acquisitions and divestitures
  Leveraged buyouts, venture capital investments and finance
  Strategy Development

Mr. Awad has served on the Board of Directors of both public and private companies, where he has experience as both a Chairman and member of such Board committees as Audit, Governance, Compensation, Nomination, and Reserves Committees. Previous to his founding of ThreeG, he served as Executive Vice President of Unocal International Energy Ventures, Ltd., a unit of one of the largest independent petroleum companies, Unocal Corporation, where he lead multi-disciplinary teams developing large oil, gas, pipeline, and pwer projects outside North America. He has also served as Vice President of Global Development for Fluor Corporation, one of the largest public engineering-construction companies, where he was responsible for creating new businesses via equity investments, strategic partnering and deal structuring. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago in both economics and finance and a BA in Economics with Honors from Claremont McKenna College.

 

Mr. Awad serves on the Board of Directors of EHD Technology Group, Inc., a company focused on removing nanoscale contaminants from high-value subassemblies and is a Board member of the Pasadena Angels, an early stage venture capital organization which invests in companies in the Southern California area. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Mamey Investment Corporation, a commercial real estate investment firm, and Thermata, a supplier of solar generated heat for industrial and petroleum production processes. He also served as Lead Director on the Board of Directors of Centurion Energy International, an energy company with operations in North and West Africa, which was sold in early 2007 for over $950 million to a Middle East based oil and gas company, and as a Board member of Metamatrix Corporation, which was sold to Redhat in 2008.

 

Skills and Competencies

Gary V. Awad, Managing Principal of ThreeG, has broad experience on Board committees of both public and private companies, and in successful commercial negotiations and deal structuring to develop projects and assist company business development and growth. He has an outstanding track record in the development of alliance and partnership relationships at the highest levels with major companies, governments, and investors. He also has been involved in the leadership and management of multi-disciplinary teams to make asset acquisitions/divestitures, evaluate and make new venture equity investments, and to develop and close complex deals.
 

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