A buy-side agency that is investing in the transition to renewable power is making a behavior of hiring senior employees from Goldman Sachs, together with from Goldman’s know-how staff.
In the previous 15 months, three former Goldman Sachs managing administrators – Chrissy Benson, Jeremy Glick and Scott Weinstein – have all joined Orion Energy Partners, a personal capital supplier primarily based in New York and Houston that is investing $2.5bn in supporting the transition to renewable power. Weinstein joined final yr. Glick and Benson joined in May and June 2021 respectively.
While Benson beforehand labored for Goldman’s commodity financing enterprise, each Glick and Weinstein most lately had know-how roles at the agency. Glick was Goldman’s world head of R&D engineering, working throughout AI, quantum computing and blockchain amongst different areas. Weinstein was a managing director in core engineering at Goldman Sachs. Both males have broad information of the commodities and power sector from earlier positions, nevertheless. Glick was a former head of Goldman’s commodity strats staff and CTO at Noble, the commodities buying and selling home; Weinstein was a former Goldman energy and mortgage buying and selling strategist and head of the digital buying and selling enterprise for commodities at JPMorgan.
Benson has joined Orion’s New York workplace as a managing director and funding principal. Weinstein is head of know-how and innovation at the fund. Glick can also be an funding principal, in cost of the infrastructure development technique.
Orion Energy Partners was based in 2015 by Gerritt Nicholas, who labored for Goldman Sachs as head of environmental commodities between 2004 and 2010. However, it is present process a interval of fast enlargement in 2021: in the previous few months it is also employed two vice presidents, seven associates and two analysts, and it plans to make one other 5-7 folks in the subsequent 12 months. One of the VPs – Georgiana Zehner – additionally joined from GS, the place she labored in the Houston power group. An affiliate, Harris Pritchard, joined from Credit Suisse in Texas.
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