Jonathan Silver

Jonathan Silver

Mr. Silver is one of the country’s leading clean economy investors and advisors. He is Chair of the Global Sustainability Platform at Apollo Global Management, helping guide the investment of $100 billion in sustainability-related transactions, and Co-President of Multiplier, an advisory firm working with smaller cleantech companies. Earlier, he was a Senior Advisor at Guggenheim Partners, advising global clean economy clients, and Managing Partner of Tax Equity Advisors, an RIA in solar power. Mr. Silver is on the board of National Grid, a Global Fortune 300 utility and a former board member at Plug Power, a leading hydrogen company. He chairs the board of Terram Labs, a sustainable packaging company.  

Mr. Silver led both the U.S. government’s $40 billion clean energy investment fund and its $20 billion automotive technology fund, providing financing for solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, fossil, nuclear and advanced automotive projects. He was COO of Tiger Management, one of the country’s largest hedge funds, and founded venture capital firm Core Capital Partners. He began his career at McKinsey and Company.  

Mr. Silver has served as a senior official in three U.S. Cabinets: Energy, Commerce and Interior and as an advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. He is on the board of Resources for the Future and was Chair of the board of American Forests.  

An honors graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Silver did graduate work at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.