W.J. Habboush
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
ENTRA1 Energy
W.J. Habboush is an American entrepreneur, investor and
asset manager with more than 20 years of experience. He
specializes in asset acquisitions, management and
restructurings in the energy, infrastructure, and technology
sectors.
Mr. Habboush is the Founder of ENTRA1 – an investment
and development platform focused on global energy
production, infrastructure and related technology sectors.
ENTRA1 Energy holds the exclusive global
commercialization rights for NuScale (NYSE: SMR) – the
world’s leading nuclear small modular reactor technology.
ENTRA1 Energy is focused on development, investment and
execution of carbon-free baseload energy production
plants with more than 30 gigawatts in its pipeline.
He is also the Founder of E1X Data – an American digital
infrastructure investment and operating platform focused
on developing critical datacenters in the United States and
abroad mainly to support the tech industry’s demand and
AI growth with an emphasis on collocated energy + data
assets.
He served as CEO at the Habboush Group (HG). Drawing
on more than 40 years of experience, HG is a privately
held firm and family group of companies focused on asset
management and investments across the capital structure
in energy, infrastructure, technology, banking, and real
estate. HG has partnered with leading multinational
corporations and financial institutions to acquire, develop,
and manage projects in excess of $10 billion in value.
Mr. Habboush co-founded and grew HG’s asset
management and special situations business, partnering
and forming joint-ventures with leading publicly-traded
corporations and financial institutions in financing and
operating assets globally, thus expanding the firm’s
landscape into carbon-free energy.
Mr. Habboush served as an Investment & Operating
Partner at I Squared Capital. I Squared Capital is an
independent global infrastructure investment manager and
private equity fund with over $36 billion.
Mr. Habboush led his team in operating and managing
Goldman Sachs’ on-balance sheet principal investments with
operating management coverage of the Special Situations
Group’s international power asset portfolio and daily
responsibilities that included acquisitions, restructurings,
project financings, project development, execution, portfolio
operations, financial management, operational management,
compliance, risk management, and exit management.
Mr. Habboush is a licensed attorney. He has practiced law,
most notably as a member of the London, New York, and
Washington offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Mr. Habboush
represented both private and public companies, institutional
investors, and private equity funds. His practice has been
focused on corporate governance, restructurings, fund
formations, financing and negotiating transactions, with an
emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and
equity offerings as well as other complex transactions and
legal matters.
Mr. Habboush has experience in corporate strategy,
compliance and corporate governance serving on boards of
directors and other committees as Chairman and Member in
connection with multinational corporations’ affiliates/JVs that
included Halliburton, Fluor Corp, Cogentrix Energy, SK
Energy, Hanwha, etc.
For more 15+ years, Mr. Habboush has strategically
supported and invested in smart technologies and renewable
energy opportunities with a focus on energy security and
decarbonization drivers.
Mr. Habboush holds a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Georgetown
University and a B.S. (magna cum laude) in Accountancy from
the American University’s Kogod School of Business (Phi Beta
Kappa). He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
