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Let’s rebuild the world together.

Building and maintaining
your trust starts with our Values

Integrity

We prioritize honesty and integrity above everything.

Collaboration

We create trust through transparency; we share in our collective successes and failures; and we assist each other in achieving personal and professional growth.

Excellence

We relentlessly pursue a high standard for excellence, constantly working to be better than we have been.

Intellectual Honesty

We are independent thinkers and encourage a diversity of viewpoints in search of genuine truths.

Accountability

We take accountability for our own actions and decisions, and we strive to learn from each of our inevitable mistakes.

Generate is the one-stop shop for the Infrastructure Revolution. Together with our partners—the technology companies and project developers pioneering the Infrastructure Revolution—we are rebuilding the world. Generate has pioneered many emerging infrastructure asset classes, including battery storage; community, commercial, and industrial solar; energy efficiency; electric vehicles; fuel cells; wastewater treatment; distributed desalination; and organic waste management. We turn technology projects into infrastructure so customers don’t have to take risks they don’t want to take or spend money they don’t have.

Technology companies Project developers

As a trusted infrastructure provider, our singular goal is to provide the most reliable, sustainable, resilient energy and resource solutions. We beat the traditional utilities, who are typically slow to adopt new and innovative approaches, who are not incentivized to respond to customers’ ever-changing needs, and who aren’t working to win your business, and your trust, every day like we are. Whether you’re a city manager, a campus facilities operator, an energy manager, or a CFO, you can turn to us to help meet your resource and sustainability goals, however complex they may be. We have the expertise and experience to understand your needs. And we take on all of the risk—we use our capital, we pay all up-front costs, we take on the technical evaluation, and we manage the long-term operations—so you don’t have to.

Cities and campuses Enterprises

What we build, own, operate, and finance

Sustainable Power

Energy efficiency
Energy storage
Fuel cells
Geothermal & CHP
Green hydrogen
HVAC systems
Smart meters
Solar

Sustainable Mobility

Charging stations & depots
Electric buses
Electric vehicles
Fleets
Hydrogen vehicles
Sustainable fuels

Sustainable Water & Waste

Anaerobic digesters
Biogas
Composting
Food waste and biosolids management
Precision agriculture & greenhouses
Carbon capture and storage
Recycling and upcycling
Renewable natural gas
Waste-to-electricity
Wastewater treatment

Sustainable Cities

Fiber broadband (FTTX)
Smart cities technologies

Generate is a leading sustainable infrastructure platform delivering affordable, reliable resource solutions to companies, communities, and cities. Founded by some of the renewable energy industry’s leading visionaries, Generate builds, owns, operates, and finances sustainable resource infrastructure that adhere to what we call the 4 Ds:

Democratized

from regulated monopolies to multiple options for customers

Digitized

from analog to digital

Decarbonized

from dirty to clean

Decentralized

from big, monolithic, and inflexible to small, distributed, modular, flexible, and resilient

Generate offers proof, not promises, that sustainability pays:

2,000 assets operating and serving customers, communities, and the planet
50+ partners scaling
2000+ customers winning

Careers

Scott Jacobs

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Scott Jacobs is the CEO and co-founder of Generate Capital, a leading sustainable infrastructure platform delivering affordable, reliable resource solutions to companies, communities, and cities. Prior to Generate, in 2007, Scott joined McKinsey & Company and co-founded its global Clean Technologies Practice, advising companies, institutional investors, NGOs, and governments around the world on the economic imperatives of resource productivity and climate solutions. Prior to that, Scott spent over a decade in technology and venture capital, helping start and grow several companies. Scott has dedicated much of his professional life to the “resource revolution” and is a regular writer, keynote speaker, and conference panelist on the topics of thematic investing and risk management, climate- and resource-related innovation, and building values-based and people-centric businesses. Scott earned his MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a George F. Baker Scholar, and his BA cum laude from Dartmouth College.

Brian Lehman

Chief Financial Officer

Brian Lehman is the Chief Financial Officer at Generate Capital. Prior to Generate, Brian spent over two decades on global investment banking platforms, having acted as advisor, underwriter, principal and agent for private and public corporations in over $100 billion in debt, equity and structured transactions. Most recently, Brian established and led JP Morgan’s Green Economy banking franchise. Prior to that, he formed and ran JP Morgan’s Diversified Financials group. Before JP Morgan, Brian was Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Equity Linked Capital Markets group. Earlier in his career he also held positions at both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and UBS. Brian earned a BS and BA from Villanova University, an MPhil from Queens’ College, Cambridge University, and his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He is also a CFA charterholder and Trustee for the New Jersey Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Matan Friedman

Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder

Matan Friedman is the CIO and co-founder of Generate Capital. He also served as a managing director and cofounder of Resource Efficiency Finance, an investment company that provides financing for equipment and infrastructure projects that enable the more efficient use of natural resources. Generate and Resource Efficiency Finance reflect Matan’s focus on investing in assets with a resource productivity benefit and long time-horizons. Before focusing on distributed infrastructure project finance, Matan invested in innovation across cleantech sectors, with venture capital roles at Bessemer Venture Partners and Israel Cleantech Ventures. Earlier in his career, Matan was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and an officer with the Israel Defense Forces. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Nam Tran Nguyen

Chief Operating Officer

Nam Nguyen is Chief Operating Officer at Generate Capital, responsible for the company’s assets and portfolio and operations. Prior to joining Generate, Nam was Executive Vice President at SunPower, one of the largest solar companies in the world. Nam was responsible for SunPower’s Commercial Solar division, delivering approximately $500 million in revenues and number 1 market share in the U.S. Prior to that, Nam served as Senior Vice President and oversaw SunPower’s power plant business in Latin America, where she was responsible for the P&L, driving approximately 1GW of contracted pipeline and $1.5 billion in revenues. Prior to SunPower, Nam was Vice President of Global Business Development at First Solar. At First Solar, she led the sale and financing of the First Solar project pipeline, including raising $8 billion of financing, and various M&A activities. She also led the expansion of First Solar’s global platform and pipeline. Prior to First Solar, Nam was responsible for corporate development and strategy at a solar start-up OptiSolar, where she helped raise $300 million in venture funding and eventually led the sale of OptiSolar to First Solar. She has also held various roles in investment banking working in New York, Singapore and Los Angeles and is on Generac’s Board of Directors. Nam has a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar.

Kristine Janhunen

Chief People Officer

Kristine Janhunen is Chief People Officer of Generate Capital. Prior to Generate, Kristine consulted globally for private equity and venture firms on many talent and organization-building matters. She has also served as the chief operating officer of Larcen Consulting Group, where she grew and managed the operations group focused on delivering human-capital services to a portfolio of private-equity backed companies as well as large corporate organizations. While with Larcen, she also led the executive search strategy and execution for the portfolio of investments managed by Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco–based middle market private equity firm. Her corporate training comes from her time as the chief of staff for British Petroleum’s Wind and Solar business, as a director of large commercial solar projects for BP, and as a leader at NPower (a Microsoft-backed IT consulting start-up). Kristine was a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she received her MS in Management. She also received an MEd in Psychology from the University of North Carolina and a BA in Psychology and International Studies from Taylor University.

Darryl Carbonaro

General Counsel

Darryl Carbonaro is General Counsel at Generate Capital. Darryl brings more than 20 years of experience in tax-equity and debt financing of all types of energy assets, including hydroelectric facilities along the Danube, utility scale wind projects in California, and residential solar installations around the United States. A former chemical engineer focused on downstream waste treatment technologies, Darryl began his legal career at White & Case in New York, then moved to Dechert LLP in San Francisco to focus on structured finance and securitization. He served as an assistant general counsel for six years at Bank of America, where he helped launch the bank’s renewable energy finance and energy efficiency finance groups. Prior to joining Generate, Darryl was a managing director and deputy general counsel for a technology-enabled consumer finance company focused on solar energy, energy efficiency, and home improvements. Darryl earned a JD from Pace Law School and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University.

Jeff Ross

Chief Investment Officer, Infrastructure

Jeff Ross is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment at Generate Capital. Prior to Generate, he served as a Managing Director at an investment platform investing in renewable energy assets, and as Senior Vice President at NRG, leading the distributed generation and retail energy businesses. Jeff served as a Partner at Arborview Capital, investing in mid-market companies in the energy and sustainability sectors; as Executive Vice President at GridPoint, a private-equity backed energy management company; and in senior management roles at several private equity-backed services and technology companies. Jeff is a frequent speaker on energy and sustainability issues, and has appeared on television, radio and in print in venues such as CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. He has testified before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and several state public utility commissions. Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and has a law degree from the University of Virginia.

Alfred Griffin

Senior Managing Director and Head of Credit

Alfred is a Senior Managing Director and the Head of Generate Credit at Generate. Prior to Generate, Alfred was the founding President of NY Green Bank, a $1 billion New York State sponsored specialty finance company with focus on sustainable infrastructure / clean energy. He let the organization from concept to over $1 billion of investments, making NYGB the largest exclusively focused sustainable infrastructure private credit fund in the United States. Investments included solar, wind, storage, energy efficiency, fuel cells, controlled environment agriculture, sustainable transportation and other proven technologies expected to reduce greenhouse gases. Prior to NY Green Bank, Alfred spent 16 years with Citigroup Global Markets in a variety of structured finance roles in Capital Markets and Investment Banking. He holds bachelor’s and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Andrew Marino

Senior Managing Director and Head of Corporate Private Equity

Andrew Marino is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Corporate Private Equity at Generate Capital. Prior to joining Generate, Andrew was a Partner at the Carlyle Group, based in Washington, DC, where he worked since 2004. During his time at Carlyle, Andrew held several leadership roles including Co-Head of the Carlyle Global Infrastructure Fund, Chief Operating Officer of Carlyle’s Energy and Natural Resources Sector and Managing Director in Carlyle’s US Buyout team. He was also a member of several Carlyle fund investment committees and Carlyle Group portfolio company boards. Prior to joining Carlyle, Andrew worked at Morgan Stanley where he focused on mergers, acquisitions and restructuring assignments in the US and Europe. For several years prior to business school, Andrew lived and worked in Hong Kong and China, identifying private equity investments in China and Southeast Asia. Andrew is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Andrew is on the Board of Trustees of St. Albans School and on the Board of Advisors for The Center for Social Impact at Dartmouth College. He lives in Chevy Chase, MD with his wife and four boys. Andrew enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking and saber fencing.

Erich Becker

Senior Managing Director and Head of Europe

Erich Becker is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Europe at Generate Capital. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the energy sector, having worked both as engineer as well as investor. Prior to Generate, Erich founded his own investment firm Exergy Capital Management LLP dedicated to providing funding and expert support for solutions driving the global energy transition. During his career, he also served as a Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Group heading up a business pursuing principal investment, an energy sector investor at Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, and as Executive Director of Goldman Sachs International’s principal power and power-related fuels investment and trading businesses. Erich started his professional career as engineer focusing on power plant design and optimization. Erich earned a Doctorate in applied thermodynamics, a Master’s degree in process engineering at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and a Master’s degree in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Jack Stark

Executive Vice President

Jack Stark is the Executive Vice President at Generate Capital. For the past three decades, Jack has held senior management roles in finance and operations in the energy and financial services spaces with both private and publicly traded companies. Previously, he served as CFO for Imergy Energy Systems, an early-stage energy storage company using vanadium-redux technology for commercial and utility-scale energy storage. Prior to Imergy, Jack was CFO of BrightSource Energy, a developer and supplier of utility-scale solar thermal technology. Before that, he was the CFO at Silicon Valley Bank. Jack also serves as the lead director for TC Pipelines, LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership. Jack earned his MBA from UC Berkeley and his MA and BA in Economics from UC Santa Barbara.

Eduardo Clemente

Principal, Europe, Investments

Eduardo Clemente is a Principal in the European Investment Team. Eduardo brings more than 13 years of experience in the Energy, Power and Infrastructure space across investment and advisory roles resulting in more than $3B of principal investments. Prior to Generate, he was a Senior Vice President at Exergy Capital Management LLP, a private equity firm focused on the energy transition in Europe. He also served 9 years at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division where he was an Executive Director participating in principal investing, M&A, equity, debt, restructuring and commodity financing transactions worth excess of $20B in the broader Energy and Infrastructure sector. Eduardo holds a “Licenciatura” and Master’s degree in Business Administration from ESADE (Barcelona) and a “Grande Ecole” degree conferring a Master’s degree in Finance from HEC (Paris).

Scott Gosselink

Managing Director and Head of Underwriting

Scott Gosselink was Generate Capital’s first employee and serves as a Managing Director, Head of Underwriting, and is a member of Generate’s Investment Committee. With more than 15 years of experience in the energy industry, Scott focuses on the emerging clean-mobility sector by accelerating the decarbonization of transportation. Prior to Generate Capital, Scott spent time at SunEdison, EDF-Renewable Energy, and the Lower Colorado River Authority where he developed, marketed, and structured several billion dollars for renewable energy and energy transition projects. Scott received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce from Washington and Lee University, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

John Dannan

Managing Director and Head of Waste Investments

John Dannan is a Managing Director of Upcycle at Generate Capital and has led the waste investment team for six years. Prior to Generate, John founded Energy & Infrastructure Capital, LLC (EIC), a Connecticut-based asset manager focused on small scale project debt investments. During his tenure at EIC, John invested nearly $200 million in US energy and infrastructure debt on behalf of national and international investors. Earlier in his career, John was engaged in infrastructure debt funds at both Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and Aladdin Capital, and also worked on investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort. John is a frequent speaker at waste conferences; he recently served on the ReFED Advisory Council and is currently a member of the American Biogas Council Board of Directors. John received a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Accounting from Loughborough University, England.