John Bergeron

John Bergeron is a Vice President on Rockland Capital's Asset Management team. Rockland says he began working with the firm in 2020, with responsibilities that include commercial management of Rockland projects in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as due diligence and asset valuation for acquisitions.

Before joining Rockland, Bergeron worked in power trading roles across real-time power trading and East cash power trading. Rockland identifies his prior employers as Entergy-Koch and Merrill Lynch Commodities Power Trading Group.

For the nine years before Rockland, Bergeron was Manager of the Northeast Power Desk for Entergy Nuclear Power Marketing. Third-party profile data from The Org lists this Entergy role as October 2010 to December 2019 and earlier real-time power trader roles at Merrill Lynch Commodities and Entergy Koch Trading from 2000 to 2010.

Bergeron holds a BS from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. His LinkedIn profile lists Rockland Capital, LSU, and Houston, Texas.

• Rockland is not a seed-stage angel investor based on public sources; it is a private equity firm focused on power and energy infrastructure.
• The firm's stated strategy is "value based," targeting power generation and related assets with commercial, financial, or physical characteristics that can benefit from active management.
• Rockland considers investments in contracted independent power projects, renewable power, energy storage, energy and biofuels projects, merchant generation, distressed assets, capital restructurings and MBOs, transmission projects, district heating and cooling, and industrial projects with power and/or steam requirements.
• The firm emphasizes operational value creation: Rockland says its professionals take a hands-on operational focus and target opportunities needing management attention because of structural complexity, operational or financial distress, developmental nature, or being out of favor in the market cycle.
• In Fund V materials, Rockland said it focuses on control investments in critical power generation assets that are "under-managed, option-rich" and able to provide grid reliability services.
• Fund V is expected to invest primarily in existing operating power plants, with a smaller allocation to development and construction of new power plants serving data center demand for rapid deployment and high reliability.