IHI Terrasun Leadership

IHI Terrasun’s leadership team brings together deep experience across multiple fields to realize the company’s vision of a sustainable energy future.

President & VP

Kenshi Suzuki
President
Kenshi Suzuki is the President of IHI Terrasun Solutions. He joined IHI Terrasun from its parent, IHI Corporation, creating an integral connection between the global company and its North American subsidiary. Suzuki’s mission is to develop successful collaboration between the two companies, drawing upon IHI Terrasun’s deep expertise in energy storage systems and IHI Corporation’s broad expertise in energy management and power controls.
Shar Allen
VP – Business Strategy & Product
Shar Allen is the Vice President of Business Strategy and Product, a role where he shapes IHI Terrasun's product and services strategy, working closely with the sales, supply chain, and product development teams to drive innovation. His mandate is to create financially attractive product solutions that deliver highly successful results and meet customers' investment goals.
Steve Held
VP – Business Operations
Stephen Held is one of the founding members of Terrasun. He has been with the company since its formation in 2014. He has over 40 years of leadership experience in corporate and military environments. After spending over 11 years as an officer in the US Air Force, Held pursued a civilian career starting in the IT industry and then moving on to renewable energy in 2008. His extensive background in software engineering, project management, and business development positioned him well to lead IHI Terrasun in its daily administrative and business operations.
Larry Kane
SVP – Project & Product Engineering
Larry Kane, P.E., is the Senior Vice President of Project & Product Engineering. Kane brings over 20 years of leadership and project management experience in corporate and government environments to his role at IHI Terrasun. With years of leadership responsibility in the U.S. Navy, Kane has comprehensive project management expertise and oversees numerous complex operations within the engineering and project execution organizations.
Caroline Nisbet
VP – Human Resources & Organizational Development
Caroline Nisbet is the Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development at IHI Terrasun. With 15 years of experience in HR and organizational development, she has worked extensively with diverse teams in competitive markets, enabling them to recruit, retain, and grow employees. Nisbet spearheads the development of IHI Terrasun’s company structure, building out the best organizational set-up to deliver optimal results for clients.
Ray Saka
SVP – Business Strategy and Services
Ray Saka is the Senior Vice President Business Strategy and Services at IHI Terrasun Solutions (IHI Terrasun), a system integrator of battery energy storage systems projects. With years of experience in solar and battery energy storage development, Saka is an expert in inverters and inverter-based resources, especially DC-coupled systems, grid integration and operations. Currently, he manages business strategy and services teams for IHI Terrasun, including procurement, development, and field engineering.

Directors

Peter Biede
Director – Asset Performance & Service Operations
Peter Biede is the Director of Asset Performance & Service Operations and has been with the company since its early beginnings. With a career start in renewable energy before transitioning to energy storage, he has worked in field operations at a number of large companies. Biede has a record of bringing successful systems thinking and deployment strategies to legacy industries. In his position at IHI Terrasun, he has expanded IHI Terrasun’s field services to one-third of the company’s capability and has built an in-house operations team that excels in field engineering.
Jeremiah Brockway
Sr. Director – Engineering and Technology
Jeremiah Brockway is the Senior Director of Engineering and Technology, a role where he leads the development of the IHI Terrasun's power plant controls software and engineering innovation for large BESS systems. With almost two decades of experience in energy storage and power generation from both ISO and integrator sides, Brockway brings a wealth of power management expertise to the role.
Ken Dao
Sr. Director – Supply Chain
Ken Dao is the Senior Director of Supply Chain, where he is charged with strategic procurement for battery energy storage projects. Dao has more than 20 years of supply chain and procurement management experience, including merger and acquisition integration, global inventory management, strategic sourcing, logistics, compliance, and manufacturing.
Juan Ibanez
Sr. Director – Quality
Juan Ibanez is the Senior Director of Quality. He brings over 20 years of experience in quality management to the role with a diverse background of quality assurance in healthcare, industrial measurement and controls, power systems and renewable energy. Ibanez excels in fostering quality across cross-functional teams and working across global supply chains, ensuring high quality standards for every project.
Dramaine Irions
Director – Contracts & Operations
Dramaine Irions is the Director of Contracts & Operations, where he oversees the company’s legal team and helps to ensure the compliance and integrity of all agreements. His team is tasked with writing new contracts with developers, suppliers and IHI Terrasun, and ensuring the signing of supplier contracts and customer contracts. Irions’ team monitors contracts across their lifetimes to make sure parties continue to meet requirements.
Horacio Larios
Sr. Director – Projects
Horacio Larios is the Senior Director of Projects, tasked with execution of integration projects for IHI Terrasun. With extensive experience in project development, engineering and construction of projects across the United States and Latin America, he excels in managing complex energy projects with broad supply chains and diverse stakeholders. Larios is skilled in delivering innovation in the renewable energy sector and navigating the challenges of project development in quickly evolving markets.
Matt Ruza
Director – Sales & Business Development
Matt Ruza is the Director of Sales and Business Development, where he is responsible for leading sales across the entire partnership network. With 20 years of experience in industrial controls, automation, and energy storage, Ruza has extensive expertise in solving technical and commercial challenges, specifically for battery energy storage solutions.
Hiroshi Saito
Sr. Director – Finance
Hiroshi Saito is the Senior Director of Finance, a role where he is responsible for all aspects of the company’s financial functions and the head of the finance and accounting team. Prior to IHI Terrasun, Saito had decades of experience in a wide range of companies, from small start-ups to major global manufacturers, and he held a variety of leadership roles in corporate finance and accounting. Saito also plays a key role in developing financial strategies with a mid- to long-term perspective and in strengthening IHI Terrasun's corporate governance and risk management.
Jared Spence
Director – Product Management & Applications Engineering
Jared Spence is the Director of Product Management and Applications Engineering at IHI Terrasun. Spence has worked extensively on new product development, strategic partnerships, business development, business execution, competitive analysis, and customer value creation across the renewable energy industry.