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Ray O'connor
Partner at Energy Capital Ventures
Manhasset, New York
Overview
Ray O'Connor is the Managing Director at Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Inc. and a Partner at Energy Capital Ventures, with a background in Economics from Boston College and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. His career highlights include leading investment strategies in EnergyTech, BioTech, and ClimateTech/CleanTech sectors and actively participating in seed and pre-seed stage investments in New York City.
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Strategic venture firm serving the needs of the gas utility industry. The firm takes a customer-centric perspective on innovation for the industry as it deals with impending paradigm shifts. Investing at Series A though C in technologies that provide clean, intelligent, mobile and distributed solutions.
The only early stage venture capital fund focused on the ESG imperatives and digital transformation of the natural gas industry.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from Southwest Gas, Spire, Avista and NiSource.
Managing Director
2005
Provides Strategic Advisory and Capital Markets services to the US regulated utility, and a select group of Fortune 100 technology and industrial, clients.