Bill Davis
Stance Capital, LLC
Managing Partner
Mr. Davis founded Stance Capital to bring to market investment portfolios that mitigate material environmental, social, and governance risks and generate excess returns while at the same time allowing investors to align their portfolios with their belief systems.
Prior to forming Stance, Mr. Davis was co-founder and Managing Director of Empirical Asset Management, and Portfolio Manager on EAM Sustainable Equity, a strategy he launched in 2014. Prior to co-founding Empirical, he was the founder and CEO of Ze-gen, a venture and private equity backed renewable energy company focused on up-cycling certain waste materials into renewable syngas. Mr. Davis received a B.A. from Connecticut College, and his career in business has included serving as CEO or founder of numerous companies including: Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark in 1997, and Cambridge Brand Analytics in 2003. He serves on the board of Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Ceres, where he also chairs Ceres President’s Council.
Working with a global team of asset management firms, Mr. Davis co-leads a shareholder engagement effort within Climate Action 100+, a collaborate effort between UNPRI and Ceres.
He has taught Environmental Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, and guest lectured at Harvard College, Harvard Business School, MIT/Sloan, and Vanderbilt University.
Stance Capital, LLC
Managing Partner
Mr. Davis founded Stance Capital to bring to market investment portfolios that mitigate material environmental, social, and governance risks and generate excess returns while at the same time allowing investors to align their portfolios with their belief systems.
Prior to forming Stance, Mr. Davis was co-founder and Managing Director of Empirical Asset Management, and Portfolio Manager on EAM Sustainable Equity, a strategy he launched in 2014. Prior to co-founding Empirical, he was the founder and CEO of Ze-gen, a venture and private equity backed renewable energy company focused on up-cycling certain waste materials into renewable syngas. Mr. Davis received a B.A. from Connecticut College, and his career in business has included serving as CEO or founder of numerous companies including: Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark in 1997, and Cambridge Brand Analytics in 2003. He serves on the board of Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Ceres, where he also chairs Ceres President’s Council.
Working with a global team of asset management firms, Mr. Davis co-leads a shareholder engagement effort within Climate Action 100+, a collaborate effort between UNPRI and Ceres.
He has taught Environmental Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, and guest lectured at Harvard College, Harvard Business School, MIT/Sloan, and Vanderbilt University.
Crystal Simpson
Evercore
Managing Director
Crystal Simpson is a Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets Advisory at Evercore and is Head of the Energy Equity Capital Markets Group. She is focused on the origination and execution of public and private equity and equity-like transactions.
Ms. Simpson has been a trusted advisor to her clients, working with Energy companies for almost 20 years. She was most recently a Managing Director at Barclays and Co-Head of the Natural Resources Equity Capital Markets Group. She joined Lehman Brothers in 2001 as part of the Natural Resources Coverage Group and gained extensive experience across the spectrum of investment banking transactions including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and capital raises. Ms. Simpson has spent the last fifteen years in Equity Capital Markets, originating and executing IPOs, follow-ons, equity-linked offerings, private investments in public equities (PIPEs) and private convertible preferred offerings for Energy companies.
Ms. Simpson has led more than 460 Energy equity offerings in a bookrun capacity over her career. Since 2012, she has led more than 225 offerings as bookrunner, raising more than $110 billion. Of those, she acted in a lead left or active bookrunner capacity on more than 125 transactions, raising more than $60 billion. She has led numerous first of its kind transactions including new structures and taking companies in new industry sub-sectors public.
Ms. Simpson graduated from Washington & Lee University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting alongside a double-major in Broadcast Journalism.
Evercore
Managing Director
Crystal Simpson is a Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets Advisory at Evercore and is Head of the Energy Equity Capital Markets Group. She is focused on the origination and execution of public and private equity and equity-like transactions.
Ms. Simpson has been a trusted advisor to her clients, working with Energy companies for almost 20 years. She was most recently a Managing Director at Barclays and Co-Head of the Natural Resources Equity Capital Markets Group. She joined Lehman Brothers in 2001 as part of the Natural Resources Coverage Group and gained extensive experience across the spectrum of investment banking transactions including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and capital raises. Ms. Simpson has spent the last fifteen years in Equity Capital Markets, originating and executing IPOs, follow-ons, equity-linked offerings, private investments in public equities (PIPEs) and private convertible preferred offerings for Energy companies.
Ms. Simpson has led more than 460 Energy equity offerings in a bookrun capacity over her career. Since 2012, she has led more than 225 offerings as bookrunner, raising more than $110 billion. Of those, she acted in a lead left or active bookrunner capacity on more than 125 transactions, raising more than $60 billion. She has led numerous first of its kind transactions including new structures and taking companies in new industry sub-sectors public.
Ms. Simpson graduated from Washington & Lee University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting alongside a double-major in Broadcast Journalism.
Eduardo Manzur
Goldman Sachs
Investment Banking - Energy Technology Sector Captain
Eduardo joined Goldman Sachs (“GS”) Investment Banking in 2014 and is based in Houston, where he is grateful to call home the “energy capital of the world”.
Eduardo is the Energy Technology Sector Captain for GS, focused on disruptive technologies that present exponential growth trajectories based on the recent secular shift towards net zero emission targets. By keeping a holistic view on the energy industry, Eduardo has recently served as advisor on ChargePoint’s merger with Switchback; Volta’s announced merger with Tortoise II; Bird’s announced merger with Switchback II; the sale of the largest renewable natural gas (“RNG”) public fueling stations network for class 8 trucks; the largest renewable energy equipment IPOs including Array Technologies and, subsequently, Shoals Technologies; and multiple energy technology focused SPAC IPOs, green debt financings and private placement capital raises. These transactions have a tremendous impact on reducing global emissions by incentivizing the adoption of EVs, capturing methane emissions at dairy farms via anaerobic digesters, avoiding deforestation through increased used of liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) virtual pipelines, mitigating natural gas flaring through mobile bitcoin-mining data centers, promoting a hydrogen fueling network, and reducing the cost of renewable energy and battery storage through equipment that enhances production and lowers installation costs. This recent momentum presents not only an opportunity but also an obligation for technology to have a positive impact on the environment and to shape the future of the energy industry. As energy transition continues to drive a new industrial revolution, Eduardo has been focused on new business models emerging from society’s behavioral shift to accommodate disruptive technologies that will change the way we lived the last decades.
Prior to joining GS, Eduardo has always focused his career following his passion for energy and innovation. He worked as an Investment Banker at Deutsche Bank’s Power and Utilities Group, as a Project Manager at Kinder Morgan and Commercial Development at General Electric. Eduardo earned a BS from Tecnologico de Monterrey, an MS from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Goldman Sachs
Investment Banking - Energy Technology Sector Captain
Eduardo joined Goldman Sachs (“GS”) Investment Banking in 2014 and is based in Houston, where he is grateful to call home the “energy capital of the world”.
Eduardo is the Energy Technology Sector Captain for GS, focused on disruptive technologies that present exponential growth trajectories based on the recent secular shift towards net zero emission targets. By keeping a holistic view on the energy industry, Eduardo has recently served as advisor on ChargePoint’s merger with Switchback; Volta’s announced merger with Tortoise II; Bird’s announced merger with Switchback II; the sale of the largest renewable natural gas (“RNG”) public fueling stations network for class 8 trucks; the largest renewable energy equipment IPOs including Array Technologies and, subsequently, Shoals Technologies; and multiple energy technology focused SPAC IPOs, green debt financings and private placement capital raises. These transactions have a tremendous impact on reducing global emissions by incentivizing the adoption of EVs, capturing methane emissions at dairy farms via anaerobic digesters, avoiding deforestation through increased used of liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) virtual pipelines, mitigating natural gas flaring through mobile bitcoin-mining data centers, promoting a hydrogen fueling network, and reducing the cost of renewable energy and battery storage through equipment that enhances production and lowers installation costs. This recent momentum presents not only an opportunity but also an obligation for technology to have a positive impact on the environment and to shape the future of the energy industry. As energy transition continues to drive a new industrial revolution, Eduardo has been focused on new business models emerging from society’s behavioral shift to accommodate disruptive technologies that will change the way we lived the last decades.
Prior to joining GS, Eduardo has always focused his career following his passion for energy and innovation. He worked as an Investment Banker at Deutsche Bank’s Power and Utilities Group, as a Project Manager at Kinder Morgan and Commercial Development at General Electric. Eduardo earned a BS from Tecnologico de Monterrey, an MS from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Amburgey
First Reserve
Director
Thomas S. Amburgey, Director, joined First Reserve in 2012. Mr. Amburgey’s responsibilities include investment origination and structuring, due diligence, execution and monitoring. Prior to joining First Reserve, he was an Analyst in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance division at UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Amburgey holds a B.B.A. and a Master of Accountancy from the University of Georgia.
First Reserve
Director
Thomas S. Amburgey, Director, joined First Reserve in 2012. Mr. Amburgey’s responsibilities include investment origination and structuring, due diligence, execution and monitoring. Prior to joining First Reserve, he was an Analyst in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance division at UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Amburgey holds a B.B.A. and a Master of Accountancy from the University of Georgia.