Executive Management Team
Energent’s management team brings decades of multidisciplinary expertise across transportation, medicine, medical devices, renewable energy, real estate, distressed credit, hospitality, infrastructure, and leasing. This collective knowledge is strengthened by a proven track record in independent power transactions, complex regulatory frameworks, public policy, and strategic investments.
The team is further supported by an extended network of operating partners, portfolio company executives, and industry specialists, enabling Energent to combine strategic insight with hands-on execution. This integrated approach ensures the firm can originate, structure, and manage opportunities across diverse sectors while maintaining the discipline and discretion required of a global asset manager.
Founding Partners
Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown is the Chairman and General Partner of Energent, L.P. He leads the firm’s focus on climate-aligned opportunities, including renewable generation, energy efficiency platforms with durable revenue certainty, and global infrastructure spanning rail, shipping, and logistics through proprietary credit and leasing structures.
Shane Starr
Shane Starr is the General Partner at Energent, L.P. Shane oversees the firm’s significant hospitality portfolio—encompassing luxury hotels, resorts, and championship golf courses—as well as strategic investments in medicine and medical devices as well as the firm's domestic and international acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and financing.
Management Team
Operations, Development & Strategy Support
Jeff Shorter
Jeff Shorter leads Energent's Operations, Development and Strategy Support.
Finance & Accounting Support
Jay Nelson
Jay Nelson leads Energent's Finance and Accounting Support.
Efficiency & Strategy
David Wicker
David Wicker leads Energent's Efficiency and Strategy Support.
Counsel
Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland co-supervises Energent's transactional support.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom co-supervises Energent's transactional support.
Akin Gump Strauss Haue & Feld
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld supervises Energent's fund and compliance support.
Accounting
Moss Adams
Moss Adams co-supervises Energent's accounting practice.
Administration
SS&C
SS&C co-supervises Energent's administration and investment management proceedures.
Leasing and Credit Committee
Matrix Financing Solutions/Matrix Private Capital Group
Richard "Dick" S. Fuld's Matrix Financing Solutions manages Energent's leasing and credit funds.