Frederick E. LaCroix
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The PowerSource Group LLC

Rick LaCroix, trained in law and international finance, has spent 20 years structuring, developing and managing infrastructure projects in Asia, both as a successful entrepreneur and as a Fortune 100 senior manager. He has advised senior government and business leaders throughout Asia and the Western Pacific on infrastructure privatization and reform initiatives.

He served as a senior manager with Enron Corporation’s international operations and as an advisor to Raytheon Corporation internationally. He oversaw the development, financing construction and operation of both thermal and renewable power projects in markets as diverse as Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific, the US, India and Japan. His teams have a reputation for completing projects ahead of schedule and under budget. In addition to line operational management, his responsibilities included legal, tax and commercial structuring, as well as political and strategic positioning.

As the founder of a Southeast Asian-based venture start-up, Rick focused on the acquisition and commercialization of technologies and service concepts in the energy infrastructure and engineering services sectors in Asia. Among his accomplishments was the establishment of proprietary fabricated aluminum designs as an operating standard in the offshore oil and gas sector in Southeast Asia. He also built licensed manufacturing facilities in India, China and Australia.

He established the securities law curriculum and co-established the international business law curriculum at the National University of Singapore, in the process advising on the drafting of fiduciary regulations governing the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange.

Rick is a graduate of Trinity College-Cambridge University, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, The London School of Economics & Political Science and Phi Beta Kappa from Bucknell University. He is the co-editor of The Law of International Trade and Finance (Butterworth’s) and has presented papers on a range of topics including M&A, international project financing, utility privatization and joint venture management.