George Potts

Head of Hartree Climate Partners

George Potts is Head of Hartree Climate Partners (HCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hartree Partners, a proprietary trading and investment house founded by three former Goldman Sachs partners and part-owned by Oaktree Private Equity and Brookfield Asset Management. He raised and runs HCP's USD 120 million climate-technology investment platform in partnership with The Arab Energy Fund, focused on Series A to growth-stage investments that can benefit from proximity to Hartree's strategic shareholders and partners, and leads Hartree's investment efforts across the value chain for energy technologies. He holds an MBA from MIT and spent 10 years growing a start-up private equity fund to USD 1.3 billion of assets under management, latterly as Director and Head of ESG. He has an investment track record in tech-led buyouts and growth equity, and is a former Chairman of the BVCA's Responsible Investment Advisory Group.