Advancing EaaS – A corporate finance solution for large-scale healthcare infrastructure
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 12:00 pm CT | Live and on-demand
How enterprise-level EaaS partnerships are enabling health system CFOs to cost-effectively fund critical infrastructure
As healthcare systems face mounting infrastructure needs and constrained capital, Energy as a Service (EaaS) is emerging as a strategic financing solution.
This session explores how enterprise-level EaaS partnerships can fund large-scale infrastructure modernization, optimize cost of capital and transfer performance risk.
Learn how these transactions are structured, how savings guarantees create measurable returns and how health systems can implement EaaS as a long-term corporate finance strategy.
EaaS finance: structure, value, risks and start-up
As healthcare systems face growing infrastructure needs and constrained capital budgets, Energy as a Service (EaaS) is emerging as a strategic financing solution for large-scale modernization.
Designed for CFOs and finance leaders, this session explores how enterprise-level EaaS partnerships can help fund critical infrastructure improvements while optimizing cost of capital and transferring performance risk.
Learn how these transactions are structured, how funds flow among stakeholders and how savings guarantees create a measurable return profile.
Attendees will gain practical insight into using EaaS as a scalable corporate finance strategy to support long-term infrastructure investment and organizational resilience.
Meet the speakers
Kyle Smith
Senior Director, Finance Solutions | Siemens
As Senior Director of Finance Solutions for Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Kyle leads the development and delivery of innovative financing solutions for healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations. He specializes in creating strategic funding approaches that help customers address deferred maintenance, advance sustainability initiatives and modernize critical energy infrastructure. Kyle remains actively involved in commercial negotiations, transaction structuring, and the deployment of Energy as a Service (EaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service solutions that enable organizations to implement infrastructure upgrades, renewable energy systems and battery storage projects with little or no upfront capital investment.
With more than 20 years of experience spanning the power and finance sectors, Kyle has held leadership roles in project finance, strategic planning, management consulting and energy project development. He began his career as a project engineer supporting large-scale cogeneration projects in the U.S. and internationally, providing him with a unique blend of hands-on technical expertise and commercial acumen. Kyle holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Tennessee and a BS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University.
Blake Pinell
Director, Energy & Infrastructure Solutions | RBC Capital Markets
Blake Pinell manages RBC’s Energy & Infrastructure Solutions Group, a component of the firm’s public sector investment banking division. Blake and his team are responsible for the execution of advisory and financing mandates for RBC’s not-for-profit and governmental clients across (1) DBFOM energy-as-a-service partnerships for combined heat and power facilities, distributed energy infrastructure, and other on-site generation technologies, and (2) real estate portfolio optimization strategies, including sale-leaseback transactions, capital-to-lease structures and other balance sheet management solutions.
The team has been privileged to advise on and/or finance over $3 billion of energy infrastructure and real estate optimization projects over the past three years.
Prior to his current role, Blake was a Director within RBC’s Not-for-Profit Healthcare Investment Banking team, responsible for debt capital markets and strategic advisory engagements. Blake is based in New York City and received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.