Howard Matz

• Sep 14, 2022
• By Admin

Howard is a Managing Director of Derivee Power & Energy, a power and energy investment platform focused on mid-stage renewable generation development opportunities. He has over 35 years of experience in the energy infrastructure industry as a principal investor, lender, and financial advisor. Howard has executed over $8 billion of complex, acquisitions and asset-based capital market transactions for energy and infrastructure assets worldwide. He has expertise in renewable energy generation technologies and fuels, including anaerobic digesters, solar, waste-to-energy, hydro, geothermal, wind, and landfill gas.

Previously, Howard was a Managing Director and the head of Debt and Capital Markets at Abatis Capital, LLC, a private equity firm. Prior to Abatis, he was a Senior VP and head of Project Finance for Covanta Energy Group where he was responsible for arranging non-recourse infrastructure project financings for both green-field development and acquisition opportunities including the first financing for a base-load private power project and high voltage transmission line in Asia without any government guarantee and the first registered non-recourse bond financing in an emerging market.

Howard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree and a Master of Building Sciences degree, both from Carnegie Mellon University. He also studied at the Graduate School of Business and the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Carnegie Mellon University.