• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Michael LaMotte

Guggenheim Securities

Senior Managing Director

Michael LaMotte is a Senior Managing Director in the Energy & Power Group of Guggenheim Securities. He joined the firm in February of 2010 as a founding partner of the Equities business, where he served as Head of Energy & Environment Research and as a member of the Research Oversight Committee. Prior to joining Guggenheim, Mr. LaMotte was the Head of Americas Energy Research at JPMorgan Securities, Inc. where he was recognized repeatedly as a top analyst by Institutional Investor magazine and the Greenwich Survey. He has over 30 years of Energy finance experience. Mr. LaMotte serves on the Advisory Boards of the Maguire Energy Institute and the Spindletop Fund at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, and  received his B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Sessions With Michael LaMotte

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 04:10pm - 04:50pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 09:10 pm - 20/mar/2024 09:50 pm

    The “Capital Transition” for the energy transition

    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    In the past decade, rapid technology changes, regulatory shifts and volatile interest rates have clouded both the economic outlook and the prospective energy mix, heralding a new uncertain landscape for energy investing. Nonetheless, investors and their counterparts are finding ways forward—and have deployed record amounts of capital into cleantech. How do major investors think about risk? How do they view energy transition opportunities? And what are their forecasts for the next big growth areas in energy?