Bio

Michael Horwitz is a Partner in the San Francisco office of GCA, where he focuses on energy software and services, energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors. Michael joined GCA from Robert W. Baird where he was Managing Director and Head of the Energy Technology Banking team. Previously, he spent several years as Managing Director of Baird’s Energy Technology research efforts. Other prior roles include; Managing Director and Head of Clean Technology research at Stanford Group Company, and a Partner & Senior Research Analyst in Clean Technology at Pacific Growth Equities LLC. Michael has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Businessweek and appeared on CNBC to share his views of the new energy markets. Michael believes the future of distributed generation and energy management will lead to increased industry consolidation. Globally large players in the energy and industrial markets will need to garner scale to address this trillion dollar market. Michael received a BS in Financial Economics and a BA in Philosophy from Southern Methodist University. He and his wife, Cameron, are also very involved in the Exploratorium Museum, The Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco and Save the Redwoods League.