Ben is the Managing Director of Greenbacker Development Opportunities Fund, leading the origination and execution of Greenbacker’s development capital and private equity investments. He brings deep experience across the renewable energy industry, having held positions in both development (Delaware River Solar, Safari Energy) and private equity (Hudson Clean Energy, GE EFS). Ben began his career in power and utilities investment banking and holds both a BA and MBA from Columbia University.

Quinn is a Principal in the Greenbacker Development Opportunities Fund , working on principal investments, fundraising and portfolio management – he joined the newly formed group in 2021. Prior to Greenbacker, he held multiple direct investing positions on both the buy side, and sell side, of the energy industry focused primarily on renewable direct investment. Before joining Greenbacker, Quinn worked at Nomura for four years where he was a founding member of the infrastructure and power finance group. During his tenure at Nomura, he led the underwriting of over $1.5bn of credit products to renewable energy assets and portfolios. Before Nomura, Quinn was in NRG’s corporate finance group, working on M&A transactions, project financings and corporate financings. Quinn graduated from Fordham University with degrees in Economics and Sustainable Business.

Bruce Usher is a member of the GDEV Investment Committee. On a full-time basis, he is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. Professor Usher teaches on the intersection of finance, social and environmental issues, and is a recipient of the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, the Lear Award, and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Professor Usher has written numerous cases for use in business school courses, with a primary focus on climate change and business. In 2019, Usher published Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press), the first in the Earth Institute’s sustainability series of books.

Prior to his work at Columbia, Professor Usher was CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc, which developed greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries. EcoSecurities was acquired by JP Morgan in 2009. Professor Usher was previously the co-founder and CEO of TreasuryConnect LLC, which provided electronic trading solutions to banks and was acquired in 2001. Prior to that, he worked in financial services for twelve years in New York and Tokyo. Professor Usher is an active investor and advisor to entrepreneurial ventures focused on climate change and clean energy (UsherWorks.com). He is a board member of Community Energy, OptiRTC, and CapShift, and is Chair of the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Usher earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.