Lieef Team

Brad was a founding member of BlackRock’s Global Sustainable Infrastructure Investment Platform, joining as the 8th hire when there were no funds raised or investments executed. Brad’s primary focus was principal investments, where he was heavily involved in and or led a total of 19 investments comprising $1.5 billion dollars of fund capital deployments in the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Brad focused on operationally intense and control investments exclusively. Brad supported the creation of the five-year business plan for the real assets platform, which was ultimately approved by BlackRock’s board of directors. Brad was also the co-creator of BlackRock’s proprietary merchant power and fuels forecast for the Americas, adopted for both underwriting and ongoing valuations. In addition to this, Brad supported the creation of BlackRock’s global sustainability program, and created BlackRock’s first financial modeling training program for all new hires globally. Brad left BlackRock and joined Cowen Sustainable Investments as the fourth investment professional when no deals had been sourced or capital had been raised. Brad was instrumental in supporting the first time fund’s successful first close of $300M, with some of the world’s leading pensions and sovereign wealth funds as limited partners. Brad left Cowen to relocate closer to his family and launch his own investment platform in the Summer of 2020. Brad earned a BA in Economics from Columbia University.