Bill Green brings 30 years of experience to his role as Managing Partner of the Firm. Bill has devoted his career to sustainable energy and infrastructure investments and successful corporate development. His success in the investment sector is grounded in his experiential understanding of the key levers of business success.
Prior to developing the climate adaptive infrastructure thesis and founding the Firm, Bill served as CEO of MIC Renewable Energy Holdings (“MREH”), a project finance group within Macquarie Infrastructure Company (“MIC”). Macquarie is one of the world’s largest owners of infrastructure and has provided project financing to gigawatts of wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy generation projects around the globe. In his MREH role, Bill led a small project finance team based in San Francisco as they sourced, acquired, developed, built, owned and operated utility-scale renewable energy plants across the United States. Bill’s team originated more than $1 billion of renewable energy assets prior to selling the portfolio to Goldman Sachs, Dutch Infrastructure Fund and Softbank. During his decade at Macquarie, Bill also served as a Senior Managing Director of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
Bill is also well known for his work as a co-founder of VantagePoint’s CleanTech Practice, one of the largest private equity platforms in CleanTech in North America. In his role as Managing Director at VantagePoint from 2001-2009, Bill led or co-led more than a dozen notable investments and held numerous board and observer roles. Investments in the portfolio included one of the first and largest pre-IPO investments in Tesla Motors, Miasole thin film solar, BrightSource Energy, Solarcentury PV, Better Place electric vehicle operating systems, Chemrec gasification, Cobalt biobutanol, and New Energy Capital renewable energy infrastructure.
Prior to his time at VantagePoint, Bill founded or co-founded four companies in the CleanTech sector including Ecolink, one of the first companies to produce alternatives to ozone layer-depleting chemicals; the Strategic Chemical Management Group, an environmental management company; Team Fuel; and the Environmental Forum on Technology and Business.
Bill lives in Mill Valley, California and enjoys the biking and hiking trails of Marin County. Bill and his wife Margaret O’Leary have three grown sons. He attended New York University and completed course work at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
