The Pegasus Team

Michael Acampora is a Consultant at Pegasus Capital Advisors focused on marketing and special projects. Prior to joining Pegasus, Michael spent nearly 15 years working on public policy, project management, and research in the police reform and violence prevention spaces. He led individual and systemic police misconduct investigations at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board and the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD, and was a Research and Policy Advisor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s National Network for Safe Communities, an action research center focused on evidence-based violence reduction strategies. Michael graduated from Brown University with a BA in Political Science and Literary Arts.

Paola de Almeida is an award-winning senior executive with more than 20 years of experience leading strategy, innovation, and business operations in the investment, consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and consulting industries, focused on future-proofing human and planetary systems. She is now leading Food, Agriculture and Water Portfolio investment strategy for Pegasus Capital Advisors, also serves as an advisor to the Amazon Investor Coalition (all 7 Amazon region countries) and Diversifund (US conversion for regenerative agriculture) and was the Chief Innovation Officer for Mars, Inc in addition to a portfolio of leadership roles with the company, including Corporate Strategy, Finance, R&D, Science Commercialization, and External Partnerships. Paola holds a BA in Economics & Anthropology from Rutgers University, as well as graduate degrees in Project Management (Lehigh University), Negotiation (INSEAD), and Strategic R&D Management (INSEAD).

Wataru Baba is a Senior Strategic Advisor at Pegasus Capital and a distinguished leader in innovation and sustainability with over 20 years of experience across multiple sectors. He was the former Group CTO of Climate, Energy, and Environment at Panasonic Group and head of Sustainability and Climate business, including North America’s largest EV battery. In 2019, he became Panasonic’s youngest ever Corporate Executive Officer. He led the formulation of the Panasonic GREEN IMPACT, aiming to reduce global CO2 emissions by 1% through product innovations.

Mr. Baba’s pioneering work in climate impact management with Avoided Emissions drove large-scale behavioral change, resulting in the publication of guidelines on WBCSD’s Avoided Emissions and recognition in the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué to accelerate societal net-zero goals. He has demonstrated how effective impact management can revolutionize corporate climate actions, achieving positive outcomes for both people and the planet while driving significant business growth. His work has been recognized by Mission Innovation, a global initiative to accelerate clean energy innovation. He is now applying his expertise to non-energy emission sectors, addressing issues such as methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock, innovating crops and grain production to avoid deforestation, and utilizing precision fermentation, cultivated meat, air protein, and seaweed.

Previously, he held senior management positions at SAP in Tokyo, Newtown Square, and Palo Alto. Currently, he advises climate and nature companies listed on CA100+ and NA100 across energy, food and agriculture, forest, and financial institutions. He also serves as a board member of the Japan Professional Football League (J-League). Japan’s Weekly Gendai magazine named him one of the “50 CEOs Who Will Change Japan’s Future” among the 100 top influencers from business, science, and the arts. He is married and a father of two daughters. He lives with two cats in California.

Celso Catan is a Vice President at Pegasus Capital Advisors, where he focuses on originating and executing private equity investments for the Global Fund for Coral Reefs and the Subnational Climate Fund, particularly across Latin America and other emerging markets. At Pegasus, he has led investments in Carbonwave, Agrion, and Oceanpick, with a focus on scalable, nature based and low carbon solutions in blue and green industries. He serves on the board of Oceanpick, a leading sustainable aquaculture company in Sri Lanka. Prior to Pegasus, Celso worked at Neptune NRCP, the first aquaculture focused private equity firm, and at Solum Partners, the former natural resources team of Harvard Management Company, as well as at Stratus Group, a middle market private equity firm in Brazil, after beginning his career as a lawyer in big law. Celso holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a law degree from Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo.

Gordon Cheng has over 25 years of experience in investments, executive management,  and M&A relating to clean energy, high technology, natural resources , conservation and media areas. Mr. Cheng for the past ten years has been the CEO and Partner of an exclusive joint venture (CPGC) with film maker and ocean conservationist James Cameron, with the mission to create the best visual contents using most advanced 3D and AI related technologies, including for the oceans . The technologies have been applied in multiple block buster productions, with combined box office over USD13 billion. Mr.Cheng also serves as a board member of CMOC, a world leader in mining  of minerals  critical for the green economy  and has worked closely with the management team to drive to attain  the highest ESG standards in the industry. Additionally,  Mr. Cheng has long been active in various global environmental and endangered species  protection efforts, including in Africa . Recently, Mr. Cheng has become the Vice Chairman of BIOHK, an NGO advocating for global collaboration of biotechnologies,by bringing together top scientists and research institutions. Mr. Cheng previously held senior positions at Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan.

Craig Cogut has spent a career building successful investment businesses. Mr. Cogut founded Pegasus, a private equity fund, in 1995 and serves as its Chairman and CEO, and is a member of the management committee and the investment committee. Through Mr. Cogut’s leadership, Pegasus has focused on sectors influenced by global resource scarcity and the need to combat climate change, as well as on the growth in demands globally for human health and wellness, leading to Pegasus becoming the first U.S. private equity fund manager to be accredited by the Green Climate Fund. In 1990 Mr. Cogut co-founded and was one of the original partners at Apollo Advisors L.P., a position he held for six years preceding the creation of Pegasus. Mr. Cogut is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of PanTheryx.  In addition, Mr. Cogut has been an active philanthropist in the fields of improving education, building civil society and championing environmental and health issues. Mr. Cogut currently serves as Chairman of the finance advisory board of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, a non-profit focused on leveraging private finance for public good in order to achieve sustainable development goals.  Mr. Cogut is an alumnus of Brown University and Harvard Law School.

David Cogut is Co-Managing Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, where he helps lead the firm’s strategic initiatives and helps oversee day-to-day operations, serving on the management committee, investment committee, and valuation committee. In his role, David has been instrumental in overseeing both the Sub-National Climate Fund (SCF) and the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), and helps coordinate strategic relationships with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), UNDP, development finance institutions (DFIs), and corporates, particularly in the hospitality sector. He currently oversees certain portfolio companies including Pantheryx, Renaissance Downtowns, and SleepScore Labs, and has played a key role in successful past investments such as Six Senses, Spirit Music Group, and Halo, Purely for Pets. Prior to joining Pegasus, David was an investment banker at Moelis & Company, focusing on mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and financing transactions across multiple sectors including gaming and lodging, industrials, media, real estate, and technology. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Economics.

Tim Corfield is an Operating Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors leading a number of investments at the Sub-National Climate Fund (managed by Pegasus) across a number of infrastructure verticals including energy transition, waste and water management and urban development solutions. He previously led the Impala Energy group, an established African power platform with focus on natural gas-renewable hybrid power and thermal energy generation. Tim has 35 years of experience in the delivery of infrastructure projects across engineering, development, construction, finance, operations, and maintenance. He has worked on numerous major projects across infrastructure sectors as an engineer, investment banker, developer and investor. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).

Mahamadou Coulibaly was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at PIMCO focusing on special situations and direct lending strategies across Europe and Emerging Markets. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he was a credit analyst on Nomura’s distressed debt trading team. Previously, he was an investment professional at Bayside Capital, the special situations team of H.I.G. Capital. He started his career in investment banking (at Moelis & Co and Rothschild & Co). He has 13 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) and an MBA from INSEAD.

Stacey Fellone serves as the Assistant Controller at Pegasus Capital Advisors, contributing to the management company’s financial reporting, AP/AR processes, vendor management, and regulatory compliance efforts. With more than 15 years of experience in finance, accounting, and HR, she draws on a broad and well-rounded foundation in financial and operational management. Stacey earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Le Moyne College.

Over his career, Dale Galvin has served in a variety of leadership roles in the international conservation, finance, investment, and technology sectors. His positions have included Fund Manager of the Meloy Fund I, LP, Chief Operating Officer of Rare, an international conservation organization, and Chief Financial Officer of PA Consulting Group North America. Mr. Galvin holds a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Mr. Galvin is the Managing Partner of Deliberate Capital LLC, a subadvisor to Pegasus Capital and the GFCR Investment Fund SCSp.

Ronen Gani is an Operating Partner at Pegasus, focusing on renewable energy investments for the Subnational Climate Fund.  Prior to joining Pegasus, Mr. Gani was a co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Impala Energy Group, an established African power platform with a focus on natural gas-renewable hybrid power and thermal energy generation.  Mr. Gani has over 20 years’ experience in business development, finance, investing and accounting in the gas and energy industry.  Mr. Gani is a qualified accountant with over seven years of Big 4 experience, including commercial negotiations, transaction structuring and establishing financial governance.

Daniela Gomez is a Vice President at Pegasus Capital Advisors, focusing on energy, storage, energy efficiency solutions, waste, and hotel transactions across Latin America. Ms. Gomez currently serves as a Board Member of Luxun, a Subnational Climate Fund portfolio company. Prior to joining Pegasus, she was a financial advisor at Evolve Management Company and EY, where she focused on project finance and deal structuring across the sectors of energy, O&G, infrastructure and mobility. Past transactions in which she has been involved include a C&I distributed generation platform, utility-scale BESS project, fuel storage portfolio of fourteen projects, Waste to Energy, and sustainable aviation fuel refinery projects. Ms. Gomez holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM).

Nicolas Hasselbach is an Operating Advisor at Pegasus, focusing on renewable energy investments for the Subnational Climate Fund. Mr. Hasselbach joins Pegasus with over seven years’ experience in engineering, finance and investments as an engineering lead and financial analyst most recently at Impala Energy Group. Focus areas include investment / market analysis, technology development and testing, and strategic consulting in the energy and automotive sector. Mr. Hasselbach has a Master’s in Engineering and has passed CFA Level III.

Anuj Kamdar brings over 10 years of investment experience in negotiating, structuring, and managing debt and equity transactions. While at Pegasus Capital Advisors, Anuj has helped oversee a portfolio representing over $800 million of invested capital, represented by investments into the consumer, business services, and real estate sub-verticals. He has also been pivotal in helping lead the firm’s sustainable investment strategies having assisted with the launch of Pegasus’s Subnational Climate Fund and the Global Fund for Coral Reefs. Prior to his time at Pegasus, Anuj was an investment banker at Moelis & Company, where he focused on mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructurings and financing transactions across sectors. Anuj graduated from California Berkeley with a BA in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business.

Richard Kidd is a seasoned senior executive who brings a rare blend of U.S. federal leadership and deep international energy and environmental experience to Pegasus Capital Advisors in his role as Operating Advisor. He has designed and led mission-critical sustainability, energy security, and environmental stewardship programs, including oversight of a multi-billion-dollar innovation portfolio spanning environmental technologies, sustainability, and advanced energy solutions. His earlier service in the U.S. Army and with the UN World Food Programme and UNHCR built on-the-ground expertise in distributed energy and infrastructure in conflict-affected, resource-constrained regions, shaping his pragmatic approach to resilient impact in emerging markets. He now advises investors on decarbonization, remediation, and climate resilience. Richard holds degrees from West Point and Yale SOM and has worked or traveled in 70+ countries.

Simon Ly is the Controller at Pegasus Capital Advisors, focusing on financial reporting of the investment funds and investor relations. Prior to joining Pegasus, Simon was a director at RSM US, where he was focused on financial due diligence in the financial services sector. Simon is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New York State and graduated from Bentley University with a BA in accounting.

Keith Martin is the Global Head of Value Creation at Pegasus Capital Advisors. Keith is a strategic transformation leader with deep expertise in value creation. He has a proven track record in private equity-backed companies, driving operational turnarounds, EBITDA growth, digital / artificial intelligence innovation, and cultural transformation. Keith was a Partner at McKinsey & Company and a leader of McKinsey’s Transformation Practice. He is a member of Pegasus’s Global Fund for Coral Reefs and Subnational Climate Fund investment committees. Keith holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

The first-ever White House National Climate Advisor and former U.S. EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy is one of the nation’s most respected voices on climate change, the environment, and public health. As head of the Climate Policy Office under President Biden, McCarthy’s leadership led to the most aggressive action on climate in U.S. history, creating new jobs and unprecedented clean energy innovation and investments across the country. Her commitment to bold action across the Biden administration, supported by the climate and clean energy provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, restored U.S. climate leadership on a global stage and put a new U.S. national target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 within reach.

Throughout her years of public service in both Republican and Democratic administrations, McCarthy is credited for her common-sense strategies and ability to work across the aisle, with states, communities, business leaders, and the labor community, to tackle our nation’s toughest environmental challenges in ways that spur economic growth. and improve public health for workers and families, especially those living in environmental justice communities.

Before joining the Biden administration, McCarthy served as President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation’s largest and most influential environmental advocacy organizations. Prior to NRDC, she was a Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she served as the Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. She was also a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. During this time, she engaged students and climate science thought-leaders across the faculty, as well as corporate and non-profit leaders across the world, to coordinate strategies to turn climate and health science into actions that promote a healthier, more sustainable, and just world. McCarthy also served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Energy Foundation and Ceres and was an operating advisor to Pegasus Capital, an impact investment management firm focused on climate-related investing.

From 2013–2017, McCarthy was the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Obama. McCarthy focused on using science and input from broad external engagement to strengthen clean air standards including establishing tighter standards on mercury pollution, a new EPA Clean Water Rule to protect rivers and streams that 117 million Americans rely on for drinking water, the first national standards requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for fossil-fuel-fired power plants, and many other policies, programmatic and regulatory efforts that demonstrated the United States’ strong commitment to protecting public health and the environment. To advance climate and environmental justice domestically and internationally, McCarthy worked to implement President Obama’s climate action plan spearheading U.S. international engagements that resulted in the passage of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of high global warming chemicals and engaged in efforts leading to the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Prior to her role as EPA Administrator, McCarthy held the position of Assistant Administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation. Prior to that Presidential appointment, McCarthy was the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, where she served as Chair of the Governor’s Climate Advisory Council, developed the state’s Climate Action Plan, began an initiative called “No Child Left Inside” to introduce families to the natural world by visiting state parks, helped design and implement the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation’s first cap and trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for power plants. She also held senior positions in the administration of five Massachusetts governors, including Deputy Secretary of the Office of Commonwealth Development and Undersecretary for Policy for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

McCarthy earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a joint Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering, Planning and Policy from Tufts University.

Dr. Jean Rogers, founder of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), brings decades of leadership in measuring and managing environmental impacts as well as financing sustainable development and the energy transition to Pegasus as an independent advisor.  Most recently, she was Senior Managing Director and Global Head of ESG at Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.  In this capacity, she oversaw the firm’s integration of ESG into asset management firmwide and she served on the investment committees for certain private equity and private credit funds deploying more than $12B globally toward energy transition and climate solutions. She sat on the board of a Blackstone portfolio company, Xpansiv, an environmental commodities marketplace partnerning with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to launch a voluntary carbon market in Africa. In 2011 Dr. Rogers founded the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a 501(c)(3) now operating globally under IFRS setting standards for more than 140 capital markets globally. Under her leadership, SASB created standards enabling investors to benchmark sustainability performance across 80 industries; launched an education program in sustainability accounting; engaged more than 3,000 stakeholders and convened an Investor Advisory Group with $33T AUM. She began her career as an environmental engineer for Arup, leading sustainable development projects throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

Dr. Rogers holds degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Manhattan College (BE, ME) and Illinois Institute of Technology (PhD). She was a post-doctoral Loeb Fellow in Environmental Studies at Harvard University and a Beck Fellow at the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has been recognized with numerous leadership awards including being named by Barron’s as one of the Top 20 Influencers of Sustainable Investing in 2018. She is a Society of Progress Medal Laureate (2018) recognized by INSEAD for her work in founding SASB, a Sustainable Hero by GreenTech Capital (2018), one of the Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor (2015, 2016), and one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today (2015, 2016, 2017). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Forbes.

Ulrike Schambeck is the Chief Accounting Officer of Pegasus. Previously, Ms. Schambeck was a Senior Associate, Assurance – Capital Markets at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in New York. She also worked for Sparkasee Regensburg, a bank in Regensburg, Germany, from 1978 to 1993. Ms. Schambeck attended Westminster College earning a combined Bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. in 1997. She is also qualified as a Certified Public Accountant.

Farai Sekeso is an Operating Principal at Pegasus Capital Advisors, focusing on energy-related investments for the Subnational Climate Fund, and serves on the board of one of its portfolio companies. Prior to joining Pegasus, Farai was Executive Director and Fund Lead of the AfricaGoGreen Fund at Cygnum Capital during its formative years, helping to establish its presence on the African continent. He has over 15 years of experience in infrastructure and energy investments across frontier and emerging markets, following five years with a Big Four firm. Farai is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from ESADE Business School.

Parth Shah is a Principal at Pegasus Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Pegasus, Parth was in the Infrastructure & Climate Group at British International Investment (“BII”, pka as CDC Group or “CDC”), a leading development finance institution (“DFI”) based in London. He has extensive experience in sourcing, managing, and exiting infrastructure assets, including more than ten years of investment experience in developing markets, especially in Africa and Asia. Prior to BII, Parth was at Barclays Capital. He has worked on several transactions amounting to more than $350m of transaction volume in emerging markets across a variety of climate infrastructure sectors, including renewable energy, digital infrastructure, and agriculture. Parth is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds the CFA charter.

Radhika is Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs and Initiative Founding Co-Chair of the SDG Digital Transformation & Sustainability Solutions Lab. She is a tech-impact investor and deep believer in digital innovation & policy’s role in accelerating the SDGs. She is a Fellow and Chair of the Tech & Innovation Advisory Group at the Center for Human Rights & International Justice at Stanford and on the board of Center for Effective Global Action, U.C. Berkeley. Influenced by Gandhian philosophy, she cares deeply about sustainability, human dignity, women’s empowerment, racial-ethnic and socio-economic justice. She is Founding Co-Chair of UN Joint SDG Fund Breakthrough Alliance, advisor to the SDG Philanthropy Platform, Impact Experience, Illumen Capital & Benetech. She was a member of the CGD study group Technology,  Comparative Advantage & Development Prospects. She holds a Stanford CS Masters and a Berkeley MBA.

Juandy has more than 10 years of work experience in the accounting and investment sector. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance and an M.B.A. from the Asia-Pacific International University.

Terry Tamminen is an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors and the President/CEO of the non-profit “blue economy” hub AltaSea in the Port of Los Angeles. He served as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He cofounded the Catalytic Finance Foundation, a public-private partnership working globally to deploy climate solutions at scale, An accomplished author, Terry’s books include “Cracking the Carbon Code: The Keys to Sustainable Profits in the New Economy”. In 2008, The Guardian named Mr. Tamminen one of “50 People Who Could Save the Planet.”

Dr. Miray Zaki is an International Managing Director for Pegasus Capital Advisors, and chairs Planthesis (a Sustainability and AI- focused US VC fund). Prior to that, she managed over $18.5 billion for various firms – including as the Chief Investment officer of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation (2018-2019), senior portfolio manager at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA, 2008-2018), VP at Endeavor Capital – a mid-market private equity firm in Chicago, and Deutsche Bank in the UK. Prior to her MBA, she was a consultant at Orascom Telecom, and Schlumberger.

Miray is a twice-nominated Top 100 Most Influential Women in Finance by Dow Jones Financial News for both 2015 and 2016. She was an award-winning Fulbright Scholar and amongst the youngest nominated globally for the Aspen Institute. She holds a PhD in Financial Management from SSBR, an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Booth) and a Bachelor of Science from the American University in Cairo. She also obtained her CFA Charter in 2010. Miray currently sits on the board of Avanz Global Markets (Mauritius).