Joel is a principal with Baker Tilly’s development and community advisory practice. Since 2008, Joel has specialized in client relationship management, matching Baker Tilly’s strengths with the needs of our clients. These needs served range from assurance, compliance, energy, infrastructure and broadband initiatives, outsourced grant writing, and outsourced project development, capital procurement, management and execution. Joel leads firm initiatives and activities related to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
- Specializes in evaluating and supporting the development of new business opportunities in clean energy, broadband, infrastructure and economic development
- Provides financial modeling, analysis and optimal deal structuring services
- Provides specific subject matter expertise related to funding opportunities within the IIJA and IRA, with a focus on maximization of tax credits available to clients under the IRA for energy transition initiatives
- Leverages public and private financing mechanisms
- Provides overall project management services
- Manages valued firm relationships across various disciplines as it relates to the energy transition
- Manages valued Tribal government relationships across various disciplines
- National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED)
- Native American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA)
- Oklahoma Tribal Finance Consortium
- United South and Eastern Tribes
- American Biogas Council
- American Public Power Association
- American Wind Energy Association
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Edison Electric Institute
- Solar Energy Industries Association
- New energy tax credit regime incentivizes projects to begin construction ahead of Dec. 31, 2024, deadline, author, 2024
- How to secure and maximize federal grant and tax credit funding for solar projects, presenter, 2024
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: Solar for All, author, 2024
- Capitalizing on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for renewable energy, author, 2024
- IRS releases pre-registration portal for IRA elective pay and transferable credits, author, 2024
- Treasury issues environmental justice bonus credit allocation guidance, author, 2023
- Inflation Reduction Act: What healthcare providers need to know now, presenter, 2023
- Your questions, answered: the multifamily housing guide to the Inflation Reduction Act, author, 2023
- What the Inflation Reduction Act means for the real estate and construction industries, presenter, 2023
- Inflation Reduction Act: What's new and why it matters, presenter, 2023
- Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Provisions supporting tribes and native communities, author, 2022
- IRA: prevailing wage and apprenticeship guidance, 2022
- The Inflation Reduction Act's key impacts on energy credits as it pertains to multifamily housing, author, 2022
- Outsourced project management for tribal capital intensive broadband projects, author, 2021
- Direct financial assistance program development and administration for tribes under the ARP, author, 2021
- A look back on the CARES Act and what Indian Country can expect from the American Rescue Plan, author, 2021
- Legislation changes to the Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC) may increase your project’s eligibility, author, 2020
