What do we do?
We advise, train and coach clients in navigating complex financial transactions. We help individuals and organizations to develop real-world deal skills, with an emphasis on financial modeling and analysis.
Using an innovative approach with proprietary online content, our training courses are able to cover more material in less time.
Pivotal180 offers public and live-streaming courses, online training, and in-house workshops which can be custom-tailored to fit the specific needs of a client. We are able to provide instruction and guidance on topics as diverse as governance, compliance, local law and tax regulations in almost any jurisdiction.
We are also committed to serving non-profit organizations as well as public institutions and government ministries, including human capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
We don’t just teach how to model. We teach how to do deals. Including:
Contracts and project documentation
Legal structure
Tax optimization
Commodity markets
Risk management
And even some of the underlying engineering, science and technology necessary to quantify risk and forecast financial performance.
Our Team
Alison Leckie
Founder, COO & CFO
Alison is a founder and the COO & CFO of Pivotal 180. She is responsible for managing business and finance related tasks. Alison will also be leading courses related to FP&A and providing coaching to accountants and FP&A managers.
Daniel Gross
Founder
Daniel Gross is a founder at Pivotal180 and a private equity investor focused on renewable energy, infrastructure and socially responsible impact investing.
Haydn Palliser
Founder & Instructor
Haydn Palliser is a founder and instructor at Pivotal180 and a globally renowned financial modeling and project finance expert. Haydn develops content for courses, teaches classes, and provides guidance and mentoring to financial modelers, advisors, and investors.
Matt Davis
Director
Matt Davis is a director at Pivotal180, responsible for creation of course content, training, consulting and model audit services. A 10-year veteran of the renewable energy industry, Matt has been a part of renewables businesses around the world.
Jeff Reamer
Advisor
Jeff Reamer is an advisor at Pivotal 180, a private equity investor and an entrepreneur who has spent his entire career focused on the transition to a lower carbon economy. Jeff leads DVG Partners, a private investment platform focused on energy, environmental, and infrastructure related services.
Brent Grundberg
Advisor
Brent Grundberg is an advisor at Pivotal 180 and has spent his entire career focused on the energy, power and infrastructure sectors. Brent has extensive transaction experience on both the buy-side and sell-side including M&A, JVs, seed funding, equity (common, preferred & tax-oriented), mezz, debt (corporate and project finance) and restructuring.
Bastian Stroemsheim
Associate
Bastian Stroemsheim is an associate at Pivotal180. He supports the training, advisory and model audit services. Previously, he developed investment models for environmental markets, and monitored risk management for the World Bank's lending portfolio.