Ms. Mary Adams Bacon is a Managing Director at Ewing Bemiss & Co. She joined Ewing Bemiss & Co. in 1994 as a Vice President and became a Managing Director in 1998. She is co-head of the alternative energy practice. She has focused exclusively on alternative and renewable energy since 1999. Prior to that time, she was vice president of finance at Retail Data Services, Inc., in which capacity she headed nationwide expansion initiatives. Previously, she was assistant vice president, corporate finance, at Wheat, First Securities, Inc., where she specialized in private placements and mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive experience in various sectors of the renewable energy power generation industry, focusing on sale assignments as well as raising equity and debt financing. She has been particularly active in the landfill gas to energy, geothermal and wood biomass to energy sectors. Her expertise extends to energy services as well as environmental sectors. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (BA in Art History) and the College of William and Mary (MBA in Finance).