The Hudson Team

Mr. Auerbach is founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Hudson Clean Energy Partners, which he established in 2007. Formerly, Mr. Auerbach was a Partner at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he co-founded the U.S. alternative energy investment business within the Special Situations Group and led several of Goldman’s most successful investments in renewable energy. In total, Mr. Auerbach has led investments exceeding $2.5 billion in all aspects of the clean energy sector, including loans and direct equity investments into renewable power projects, renewable power developers, independent power producers, as well as equipment manufacturers along the supply chain. Most notably, over the course of his decade-long involvement with the sector, Mr. Auerbach has invested in some of the most successful companies in the sector, including Sun Edison, First Solar, Horizon Wind and Recurrent Energy.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Auerbach held senior positions at Barclays Capital and Morgan Stanley. He spent the first ten years of his career as a tax attorney. Mr. Auerbach has an LLM from New York University School of Law, a JD from Boston University School of Law, and a BS from the State University of New York at Albany.

Mr. Auerbach has served on the Leadership Council, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), and on the Executive Committee of ACORE’s Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance. Mr. Auerbach also served as a Commissioner on the National Commission on Energy Policy, and on the Advisory Council of the Price of Wales’ Rainforest Project. Mr. Auerbach serves on the boards of Element Power and SoloPower, and is a member of the board and Vice Chairman of Silicor. Mr. Auerbach is also Chairman of Sunlight Financial, a newly established origination platform for making loans to the US residential solar sector. 

Joe Slamm is a co-founding partner of Hudson Sustainable Investment and has been a renewable energy investment professional for twenty years.  He is Hudson’s Head of Infrastructure investing and member of its Investment Committee.   Together with his experience as co-founder of Goldman Sach’s U.S. alternative energy investment business within the firm’s Special Situations Group, Mr. Slamm has invested over $2.5 Billion in direct equity investments into renewable power projects, renewable power developers, independent power producers, as well as equipment manufacturers along the supply chain.  

Most notably, Mr. Slamm has invested in some of the most successful companies in the sector, including the initial establishment of Sun Edison: the pre-IPO investment in First Solar; establishment of Horizon Wind Energy where he served as interim CEO; investor in Recurrent Energy,; creation of Element Power where he serves on the board, and establishment of Eagle Creek Renewables where he serves on the board.  Other successful Infrastructure investments include Sun Edison SunE Fund I, Three Winds Holdings, Condon Wind and Hudson Solar Infrastructure Fund I.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Slamm held senior positions at Moody’s Investors Services in its structured finance group, Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.  Mr. Slamm holds a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware and is the recipient of the Alfred E. Lerner School of Business Outstanding Alumni Award in 2015.  He also serves on the University’s NYC Dean’s Counsel. 

Wilson is a Partner at Hudson Sustainable Investments with over $10 billion of investment, M&A, and financing transaction experience within the technology and sustainability sectors.

He is a founding member of Hudson’s solar fund and has co-founded several businesses, including Sunlight Financial, the leading fintech platform for point-of-sale financing, where he was involved in building a scalable business. He established and structured approximately $500 million of financing relationships and oversaw the design of Sunlight’s original modular software architecture.

Previously, Mr. Chang worked at Silver Lake Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm. At Silver Lake, Mr. Chang focused on investment analysis, deal execution, and portfolio monitoring of technology companies. Prior to that, he was at Goldman Sachs, engaging in M&A and financing transactions for cleantech, power, and energy assets and businesses. He was involved with the monetization of Horizon Wind Energy, one of Goldman’s largest and most successful investments in the cleantech sector.

Mr. Chang graduated magna cum laude with a BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Teppei Fukada is a Managing Director and Head of Hudson Sustainable Investment Management Japan. His responsibilities include directing all kinds of Hudson’s activities in Japan such as investment originations, deal executions and portfolio managements. Mr. Fukada previously worked at Barclays as a coverage banker and developed extensive experience in investment banking business for 10 years. Prior to that, he was engaged in corporate planning business at INPEX. Earlier in his career, he works for advisory group at Goldman Sachs.  He began his career in equity capital market as an Analyst at Citigroup. Mr. Fukada holds a BS in Chemistry from Keio University and earned a PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of East Anglia.

Jonathan Lee is a Managing Director at Hudson Sustainable Investments with over a decade of investment and financing experience in the renewable energy markets. At Hudson, Mr. Lee leads the firm’s efforts in real asset and special situations investments with a focus on its Asia strategy.

Prior to re-joining Hudson, Mr. Lee was the founding partner of Anoakia Partners, a private investment firm focused on control-oriented opportunities where he co-founded and serves as a board member for Lumina Solar and Astral Power. Earlier in Mr. Lee’s career, he was a private equity investor at GI Partners where he worked to build up various middle-market service and manufacturing businesses in the energy, industrial, and consumer sectors including The Linc Group, Duckhorn Wine Company, and Archon Resources. Mr. Lee started his career in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank advising its solar, semiconductor, and hardware clients.

Jonathan holds a BA from UCLA and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Jason Chen is a Vice President at Hudson.  His primary responsibilities include investment origination and analysis, due diligence, and portfolio management.  Mr. Chen previously worked in the technology M&A group at Evercore Partners.  Prior to that, he was at Perella Weinberg Partners, where he focused on M&A advisory for clients in the technology and energy space.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Chen was at McKinsey & Company, where he engaged in operations, strategy, and corporate finance advisory work for cleantech and consumer electronics clients.  Mr. Chen graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. and M.A. and attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies, where he received an M.A. from the Lauder Institute and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

Wei Si is a Vice President at Hudson Sustainable Investments and her primary responsibilities include energy investment strategy, deal sourcing and execution with a focus in the U.S. and Asia.  Ms. Si  previously worked at GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investment arm of GE Capital.  At EFS, Ms. Si executed ~1GW of greenfield renewable investments in the U.S., set up a $750MM Japan solar fund in 2017, supported ~2GW of gas power plant development and ~1 GW gas power project financing, and managed ~$500MM portfolio of natural resource companies in the U.S. Earlier in her career, Ms. Si worked at Weatherford in China as a business development manager and prior to that at Schlumberger in Malaysia as a field engineer. Ms. Si has an engineering degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing and an MBA from Rice University.

Cyrus Suleman is a Vice President at Hudson. His primary responsibilities include investment analysis, due diligence, and portfolio management.  Mr. Suleman previously advised clients on M&A and capital raising transactions as an Investment Banking Associate in the Power & Renewables group at Credit Suisse, including renewable energy asset transactions in the U.S and Latin America. Prior to that, he worked on emerging market investments at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, including solar power project finance and corporate debt portfolio management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Suleman was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, engaged in micro-finance and business development in agro-pastoral communities. Mr. Suleman began his career in Structured Finance as an Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mr. Suleman holds a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Mr. Suleman is a CFA Charterholder. 

Sam is an Associate at Hudson Sustainable Investments and his primary responsibilities include capital raising, investment analysis, and due diligence.  Mr. Auerbach previously worked at Sunlight Financial, a solar fintech platform where he was part of the founding team. At Sunlight, he was primarily focused on business development and financial operations. Mr. Auerbach holds a BA in Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Will Xia is an Associate at Hudson Sustainable Investments and his primary responsibilities include investment origination and analysis, due diligence, and portfolio management. Mr. Xia previously worked at Ashé Capital Management, a Shanghai and Hong Kong-based asset management firm, where he focused on investment opportunities in China’s clean energy and financial technology sectors. Mr. Xia began his career at Citigroup’s Energy Investment Banking team, where he focused on M&A advisory and capital markets for clients in the energy, power, and chemical sectors. Mr. Xia holds a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University and an M.A. from Columbia University in Energy Resource Management.

Olivia Park is a Director of Investor Relations at Hudson Clean Energy Partners. She joined Hudson in January 2015 and her primary responsibilities include investor communication, business development and fundraising. Ms. Park previously worked at Hurley Capital, an independent investment management firm investing in publicly traded securities as the head of fundraising and marketing. At Hurley, she developed and executed a comprehensive fundraising plan for communicating investment strategies to institutional investors located in North America, Europe and Asia. Notable investors included large multi-family offices, fund of funds and consultants. Prior to that, Ms. Park worked at RainMakers Private Equity, a French boutique investment bank where she focused on co-investments and deal-by-deal financing working with various PE funds across the U.S. and Europe. While at RainMakers, she built relationships with Limited Partners active in the PE space looking to make investments on a deal-by-deal basis. Prior to RainMakers, she was at Michel Dyens & Co, a boutique investment bank that provides M&A Corporate Advisory services in Paris and New York. While at Michel Dyens & Co, Ms. Park specialized on the sell/buy-side in the Life Sciences and Biotechnology industries. Earlier in her career, Ms. Park was at Evercore Partners, an investment banking advisory firm as a Research Analyst. Ms. Park holds a BA in Economics from New York University.

Max Klein is the Director of Finance at Hudson. His primary responsibilities include assisting with accounting and tax compliance for HCEP Fund I, the corporate management company and the general partner. He has been with Hudson since February of 2014. Prior to joining Hudson he was a Senior Accountant at Centerline Capital Group, prior to Centerline Capital Group he was a staff auditor at CBIZ MHM LLC. Max Received a B.S. in Accounting from the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, and also received a Masters in Accounting from Queens College.

Valerie Kenney is a Chief Controller at Hudson, primarily responsible for the accounting, administration, reporting and tax compliance of the Funds.  Valerie joined Hudson in 2018 from KKR Financial Services Company where she was an Assistant Controller responsible for the budgeting and forecast functions of the family office.  Prior to KKR, Mrs. Kenney worked at Corporate Partners as a Senior Accountant focused on fund accounting, management company reporting and compliance.  Prior to Corporate Partners, she held various financial accounting positions at ENK International, David Yurman, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley after beginning her career as an auditor at Ernst & Young.  Mrs. Kenney is a Certified Public Accountant and has received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Fairfield University.