Subject: RE: Chris Chafe
From: "Neil Callahan" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Eric Schwerin'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>, "'Hunter Biden'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:02:45 -0400

Do you think there is a link to the distressed pension funds?  Target pension funds that are in trouble and provide them with services/ideas/alternative investment opportunities?

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Neil Callahan

Rosemont Seneca

401 Greenwich Street, Suite 400 | New York NY 10013 | 212-933-9965

1010 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 705 | Washington DC 20007 | 202-333-1880

917-945-9516 (mobile) 

866-749-8879  (fax) 

From: Eric Schwerin [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 9:53 AM
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>; Hunter Biden
Subject: Re: Chris Chafe

They don't have a large staff - probably about 5-6? The bulk of their work right now is in putting on the 50 state roadshow but my guess is that they get some local labor support in doing those.  Also their partners.  

Eric D. Schwerin

[email-masked]

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On May 28, 2010, at 9:28 AM, "Neil Callahan" <[email-masked]> wrote:

This is a great chart and a big charter for them.  We could plug in across the board and they have called out the place for external integration/support.  I like their “learn, test, scale” approach.

Did you get a sense of how big they are/can be?  Or any limiting factors?  Their model could apply to a $1m operation or a $10B one.

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Neil Callahan

Rosemont Seneca

401 Greenwich Street, Suite 400 | New York NY 10013 | 212-933-9965

1010 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 705 | Washington DC 20007 | 202-333-1880

917-945-9516 (mobile) 

866-749-8879  (fax) 

From: Eric Schwerin [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:51 PM
To: [email-masked] Archer; Neil Callahan
Cc: Hunter Biden
Subject: Chris Chafe

Hunter and I met for over 2 hours with Chris Chafe and his team today.  We would have met for longer but Hunter and I had to leave for a lunch.   Very positive meeting.  They seem really interested in the concrete examples we can bring to the table of projects that can create green jobs (DuCool, NextFuels, Ormazabal, etc.) and would really like our help on the market analysis side of things and helping them develop some of the standards T-H funds can use to evaluate investments.  They are participating in the Clinton Global Initiative and would like our help in some of the events around that as well.   

We were very direct that ultimately we'd like to raise a fund that would attract T-H dollars and see this as a vehicle to do so.   They are clearly looking for reputable deal flow (to use as examples) and see us as a group that would only bring them deals that are valuable to Labor and would like to go through our current clients/portfolio companies for ways in which they could play a role (in promoting the story, potentially finding investors, etc.).   

We agreed to have a follow up meeting (probably after Hunter gets back from Africa) where we could go into more depth on our clients/portfolio companies and talk through the model more.  It would probably be good for one or both of you to be there as well.

Attached is their org chart/graphic description of what they are doing.

Hunter and I really didn't get a chance for a long download, so he may have different reactions/comments.

Bottom line - they were excited to work with us.  Still.  

 

Eric D. Schwerin

Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC

1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW

Suite 705

Washington, DC 20007

(202) 333-1880

[email-masked]

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