• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Emma Russell

Argo Infrastructure Partners

Principal

Emma has been investing directly in energy transition opportunities for the last 7 years and has 13 years of investing experience across a variety of asset classes and geographies. Her equity investments in energy transition over this time total over $1b with an additional $1.2b raised for co-investment capital and debt financing.

Emma joined the Argo team to focus specifically on the energy transition investment strategy bringing experience and networks from her background in sustainable investing and energy transition. 

Prior to joining Argo, Emma was a Principal with Vision Ridge Partners, a sustainable real asset private equity firm, where she led investments within the energy transition and mobility verticals and was an active director on the boards of portfolio companies Fjord1 and Earthrise Energy.

Emma began her career as an investment banking analyst with Macquarie Capital’s Technology, Media, Entertainment, and Telecommunications group. Following her time with Macquarie, she was an Associate on BlackRock’s special situations private equity team where she supported the underwriting and management of investments with a focus on real assets and specialty finance.

She received a B.A. in Finance and Government from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School

Sessions With Emma Russell

Thursday, 21 March

  • 11:55am - 12:45pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 04:55 pm - 21/mar/2024 05:45 pm

    New Capital for New Energy
    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    Energy hasn’t been this exciting for investors in decades. Two revolutions are intersecting and creating huge opportunities—cleantech costs have fallen rapidly while financial power in the sector shifted from traditional banks to new investors. Whether corporations investing in their own balance sheets, or private equity players and sovereign funds moving into new businesses, firms are deploying capital across every part of a rapidly changing energy landscape. Learn how these leaders in capital allocation combine the skillsets of traditional energy finance with novel capitalization approaches and balance the requirements of natural resource businesses with breakthrough technologies.