Hiring Alan Glass to Co-Head Energize Endurance

Big news today at Energize as we are expanding our Endurance investment team to meet the future of energy and industrial technology! Specifically we are announcing the hire of Alan Glass as a Partner and Co-Head of Energize Endurance, Energize’s private equity strategy focused on growth buyouts of profitable climate companies.  The Wall Street Journal covered our hire of Alan, here.

Since our founding, Energize has focused on being the specialist capital partner for asset-light companies shaping the next chapter of the economy—from the energy transition to industrial digitization to infrastructure resilience. That mission hasn’t changed, but the opportunity in front of us—and the team required to seize it—has grown dramatically. 

Our Ventures platform, led by co-heads Tyler Lancaster and Juan Muldoon, was built to meet the needs of early-stage companies bringing new technologies to market. These founders needed partners who could help them scale products, sharpen operations, and develop their commercial footholds. To serve them, we assembled a team with deep roots across both finance and energy—people who could see the market opportunity and structure the capital to meet it. 

As the sector advanced, companies began achieving levels of scale rarely seen before in digital climate solutions. They had outgrown the bounds of traditional venture support, but there wasn’t yet a capital partner designed for their next chapter. To meet that need, we brought on Kevin Stevens, an energy industry veteran, to launch our growth platform—equipping later-stage companies with the capital and expertise to bridge the gap between venture and maturity. 

With the Energize platform’s existing strengths and “right to win” as a domain expert we felt that it was best to complement our strengths with an experienced investment expert from a strong traditional private equity platform. Enter Alan Glass. Alan joins us from Vista Equity, where he worked as a senior investor on their Flagship fund. We met Alan over the course of several months and immediately felt the pull of both his cultural alignment as well as his own desire to be part of a big and growing opportunity. Like me and the other Partners ar Energize, Alan sees the ability for a big firm to be built in climate up and down the capital stack; and he wants to be part of that effort. “Why not us” is a common Energize phrase and one I’ve already heard Alan use about the opportunity ahead- and with him, Kevin, the foundation of Energize and our ongoing commitment to hire great talent I do expect we can develop a go-to firm for later stage climate opportunities.

Let’s GO!