Management Team

Cooper Schieffelin, Director of Acquisitions

Prior to joining Olympus in 2008, Mr. Schieffelin worked as a Director in the Black River Clean Energy Investment Fund. Black River Asset Management is an investment firm wholly owned by Cargill with approximately $10 billion in assets under management. While at Black River, Mr. Schieffelin sourced and closed investments throughout the solar, environmental sciences, biomass, water and climate change sectors, focusing on mid to late-stage cleantech investments in pre-IPO companies as well as selected small-cap public companies. Mr. Schieffelin served on the Board of Verdeo Group and was as an observer to the Sun Edison and Sopogy Boards while at Black River.

Prior to this, Mr. Schieffelin worked as Director of Business Development for Olympus Power and Olympus’s predecessor entity, Delta Power. While at Olympus Power and Delta Power Mr. Schieffelin was responsible for negotiating and structuring acquisitions in the power generation sector as well as arranging non-recourse debt and equity financing. Mr. Schieffelin previously worked as a Manager of Structured Finance for PSEG Global, an unregulated subsidiary of PSE&G focusing on international M&A opportunities in the power generation and electric distribution sectors. While at PSEG Global, Mr. Schieffelin successfully led a $100 MM local bond placement in Peru related to a 220 MW hydro generation facility as well as several non-recourse debt financings in Chile. Mr. Schieffelin started his career at Atlantis Water Fund, a water-focused private equity fund co-sponsored by Poseidon Resources in Stamford, Connecticut.

Mr. Schieffelin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University.