Everett Smith

Venture Partner

Prior to joining VantagePoint, Everett was with New Energy Capital, a VantagePoint portfolio company. Previously, he served for 15 years in a variety of senior executive positions at GE Capital, including Managing Director and Executive Vice President in the GE Structured Finance Group (SFG), the business unit responsible for GE’s energy investment activities, and head of SFG-International with responsibility for investment activities outside North America. He was involved in the establishment of the $1.2 billion AIG-GE Capital Latin America Infrastructure Fund and was a member of the Fund’s Investment Committee for eight years. Previously, Everett was responsible for SFG’s Asian investment activities, closing multiple project financed energy investments. Everett joined GE Capital Services in 1989 with investment responsibility for U.S. utility and utility affiliated energy companies, providing debt and private equity capital for corporate and project finance transactions. Prior to joining GE Capital, Everett spent more than a decade at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) where he ultimately became a Vice President in Energy & Minerals Group. Everett was a Partner at Coller Capital, a private equity secondary investment firm. Everett is a graduate of Vassar College (BA) and the University of Houston (MBA).

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