David oversees all strategic business development efforts as President of Greenbacker Capital Management. Prior to co-founding the firm in 2011, he was a senior adviser at Prospect Capital, a leading publicly traded business development company. He has been a serial entrepreneur in the financial services industry, having co-founded ESP Technologies—a leading provider of financial software and services to institutional asset managers and hedge funds—as well as two other companies, ElephantX dot com and Lafayette Capital Management. He also worked at Bear Sterns, developing trading strategies for institutional and brokerage correspondent clearing customers. David graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Political Science and received his MIA from the School of International Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Charles oversees all strategic business development efforts as CEO of Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company. Prior to joining the company in 2011, he held various senior positions in his 24-year career with Macquarie Group, including Head of Renewables for North America. In that role, he evaluated a wide variety of renewable energy companies and projects across the US in the wind, solar, geothermal, waste-to-energy, and biomass spaces. Before moving to the US in 2007, Charles was a Director in the Financial Products Group in Australia, responsible for the development, distribution, and management of a wide variety of retail financial products. Charles graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Economics and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia.

Matt is the firm’s Chief Operations Officer, overseeing operation and maintenance, fleet performance, and technical due diligence on transactions. He joined the firm in 2016, coming from Borrego Solar, where he served as Director of O&M. In this position, he oversaw a 500-megawatt fleet of solar power plants across 11 states, managed a national O&M team, and was responsible for the highest level of escalation in the department. Prior to that, he worked at the electrical contracting company Peck Electric, where he was instrumental in creating and running Peck’s solar photovoltaics (PV) division. While there, Matt oversaw the design, developments, construction, and maintenance of solar PV capacity totaling over 5 megawatts. Matt also has five years of experience teaching PV construction and troubleshooting to electricians in several states and is certified by the North American Board of Certified Energy.