Key Personnel

James R. Stahle
Group Managing Director
Mr. Stahle has been actively involved in the structured tax and non-tax finance business for over 21 years. His primary experience has been focused on the institutional investor marketplace, providing advisory, syndication, execution and portfolio management services to large U.S. investors. As the Group Managing Director of Commonwealth Capital Advisors, he oversees the current advisory platform, as well as new business development and acquisition strategies. Prior to establishing CCA, he developed the Institutional Advisory Platform for structured products at BTM Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. He was involved in the development and syndication of a number of structured debt transactions such as resource based loans for an independent exploration company, as well as the execution of large scale infrastructure financings involving transportation, generation and transmission assets for US and foreign companies. He is a graduate of Colby College.

Michael V. Quinlan
Managing Director
Prior to joining CCA, Mr. Quinlan was a member of the Tax Products Group at BTM Capital Corporation. Over the past 17 years, he has worked in various capacities including structuring, origination, and most recently in equity syndication. He is responsible for raising equity in leases and other tax-oriented transactions, both domestic and cross-border. He is also responsible for maintaining our existing investor client base as well as cultivating new equity investors interested in pursuing tax oriented investments. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

Martin J. Pasqualini
Managing Director
Mr. Pasqualini has over 16 years of experience executing a wide variety of project and structured financings, including extensive experience representing sponsors, equity investors, lenders and construction contractors in connection with the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of domestic and international power projects. Mr. Pasqualini has negotiated and drafted debt and equity financing documents and the entire range of project documentation (power purchase agreements, operations and maintenance agreements, wind easement agreements, construction contracts and manufacturer's warranty agreements) associated with the development and financing of a wind-powered electricity generating project. He has worked on energy projects throughout the continental United States and has also worked on energy projects in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Scotland and the Dominican Republic. In addition, Mr. Pasqualini has been a member of the board of directors of PowerOptions since his initial election in 2000. PowerOptions is the largest power buying group in Massachusetts, with more than 400 members and annual purchases totaling $250 million in electricity and $10 million in natural gas. Prior to joining CCA, Mr. Pasqualini was a Managing Director in the Tax Products Group at BTM Capital Corporation and was formerly a partner in the Project and Structured Finance Group of Bingham Dana LLP (now Bingham McCutchen LLP), an international law firm based in Boston. Mr. Pasqualini earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Boston College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School.  He has been a member of the Board of Overseers of Boston College Law School since 2005. 

Kenneth B. Newton
Managing Director
Mr. Newton has over 20 years experience in a wide variety of corporate financing transactions. He spent 14 years in private law practice specializing in real estate finance, equipment leasing and other structured finance transactions and has spent the last seven years as an advisor to major equity investors in domestic and cross-border structured lease transactions. His legal experience provides an important perspective to CCA’s team approach to transaction structuring and execution. Mr. Newton holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He has an A.B. from Cornell University, an M.A.T. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Boston College.

Michael A. Feng
Managing Director
Mr. Feng joined the company in 2003 and oversees economic modeling and the development of various structured finance products.  Prior to his joining CCA, he spent two years in the Tax Products Group at BTM Capital Corporation, where he helped develop and execute various tax-intensive asset finance transactions.  Mr. Feng has also held positions at TenFold as a software developer for trade-order management systems, and at Harvard University, where he taught geology, chemistry, and statistics. Mr. Feng is a graduate of Harvard University with highest honors in Chemistry.

Eric J. Plugis
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Plugis joined CCA in 2005 as the company's Chief Financial Officer.  From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Plugis was the General Manager of U.B. Vehicle Leasing in Boston (a subsidiary of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi), where he managed an operation encompassing over $1 billion in assets and 62 staff.  Mr. Plugis was with BTM Capital Corporation from 1985 to 1999, serving as its Treasurer from 1993 to 1999, and before that as Director of Planning and Analysis.  Mr. Plugis is a graduate of the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. and earned his B.A. from Brandeis University where he majored in Economics.

Andrew D. Briggs
Director
Mr. Briggs has over 13 years experience in a wide variety of both domestic and international structured finance transactions involving assets primarily in the transportation and infrastructure sectors.  During this tenure, he has worked in various capacities including economic modeling, structuring and advisory services and most recently in debt and equity syndication.  Prior to joining CCA, Mr. Briggs worked at GMAC Commercial Finance, Dexia Global Structured Finance and BTM Capital Corporation.  He holds a B.S. in Finance from Northeastern University.