Jason is a Partner at Spring Lane Capital, a private equity firm investing in sustainable and renewable infrastructure and is a Senior Advisor to Renewable Resource Group, an asset manager focused on sustainable agriculture, water resources, renewables and other natural resources. Jason is also the Co-Chair of the CREO Syndicate, a non-profit that supports family offices to catalyze investments at scale into climate and sustainability solutions. Jason previously co-founded and is on the board of Encourage Capital. Encourage is a climate and sustainability focused asset management and advisory firm formed through the merger of EKO and Wolfensohn Fund Management. Prior to EKO, Jason was a founding Director and investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, co-founded by David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. Jason helped build the firm and its first and second products, investing in global listed equities and climate change solutions respectively. From 1999 to 2004, Jason worked with Acumen Fund, Flatiron Future Fund/Foundation and New Philanthropy Capital. From 1996-1999, Jason was President of a NYC-based software company. Previously, Jason helped found and build national service non-profit Public Allies. Jason is currently on the boards of Clean Energy for America and the Frankfurt Zoological Society. Jason graduated from Duke University cum laude and has an M.B.A. with honors jointly from Columbia and London Business Schools. Jason will be an Executive in Residence in the Economics Department at Duke University in the fall of 2023 teaching a class on private markets investing in climate solutions.