Bio

Derek Bentley is a Partner and serves as Head of Energy Transition. He joined the firm in 2024. Derek has more than 25 years of experience as both a principal investor and strategic advisor. He has executed over $75 billion of M&A, corporate finance, and project finance transactions for large and small public and private companies, as well as asset portfolios across a broad range of industries and across six continents. Derek was previously Global Head of Low Carbon Infrastructure at Nomura Greentech / Greentech Capital Advisors, where he led the establishment of the group and created one of the leading global advisory firms in the sector. Prior to Greentech, Derek was a Director in the Energy & Power group within Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before that role, Derek was involved in the launching of Hydro Capital Corporation, a private equity investment firm created as a growth platform for the development and acquisition of highly structured international infrastructure projects in under-served markets, and the sale of the company to Mitsui. Derek holds a BA from Yale University, where he was a four-year member of the varsity football team and earned All-Ivy League honors as a running back.