Scott E. DePasquale
Partner
Mr. DePasquale is an investment professional with more than 15 years of industrial and financing experience in the global energy industry, ranging from renewable technologies to infrastructure and upstream oil and gas. Prior to joining Braemar, Mr. DePasquale was a senior vice president at GE Energy Financial Services, where he led the group’s Boston-based venture capital activities. In this capacity, Mr. DePasquale worked closely with scientists and engineers across GE’s corporate R&D center, as well as executives from various internal businesses, to identify game-changing energy technologies. Mr. DePasquale was instrumental in growing GE’s energy venture capital business, playing a key role in overseeing the execution of 15 equity investments across diverse cleantech sectors. Prior to helping launch the VC group, Mr. DePasquale was a member of GE Capital’s Diversified Energy and Natural Resources team, where he was responsible for late- stage private equity and structured finance transactions in infrastructure and upstream oil and gas.
Prior to joining General Electric, Mr. DePasquale was a senior consultant for Boston based Energy Security Analysis, Inc., a geopolitical think tank specializing in energy security policy and financial risk management. Mr. DePasquale has also developed public policy in the area of hedging and price risk management as an economist for the Department of Telecommunications and Energy in Massachusetts.
Mr. DePasquale holds an M.S. in finance from Suffolk University, and a B.S. in business administration from Bryant University. He currently serves on the board of Grid Net and has previously served as a director or board observer in a number of other clean tech start ups including A123 Systems, Danotek Motion Technologies, Beyond Compliance, and Advent Solar. He has also been a sitting member of the Boston Stock Exchange and an energy trader for an affiliate of the international oil-trading giant, Vitol S.A.
“We have real choices to make now about how to address energy security, the environment, and economic stability. There's a lot of upside to bringing innovation to bear on such a large and important problem, and I strongly believe technology is the answer.”
— Scott E. DePasquale
