Gerrit Nicholas

CIO, Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner at Orion Energy Partners

Gerrit Nicholas serves as Chief Investment Officer, co-Founder and co-Managing Partner and leads all firm activities related to originating, evaluating and structuring investment transactions as well as plays a leadership role in managing the firm. Gerrit is Chair of the Deal Allocation Committee, Chair of the ESG Committee, a voting member of the Investment Committee and a voting member of the Management Committee.

Prior to co-founding Orion in 2015, Gerrit spent six years as President and Managing Partner of K Road DG and K Road Power where he led the acquisition and development of renewable energy and storage companies / assets. Prior to that, Gerrit spent six years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Head of Environmental Commodity Sales where he led Goldman’s U.S. renewable energy and carbon market transactions, structuring commodity linked credit and equity transactions for Goldman and its clients. While at Goldman Sachs, he also led commodity risk management and commodity linked capital raising activities for the U.S. municipal and cooperative power sectors.

Previously, Gerrit headed development and merger and acquisition activities for The AES Corporation in Southern Europe. While at AES, Gerrit’s activities focused on the company’s investments in thermal and renewable generation assets, natural gas and LNG infrastructure.

Gerrit received a B.A. from Harvard University cum laude, and an M.A. from The School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Timeline

  • CIO, Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner

    Current role

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner

  • CIO, Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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