Scott Brittenham
President, CEO and Co-Founder
Mr. Brittenham is President, CEO and Co-Founder of CEC. He has an extensive professional background in the investment profession. He has over 30 years of experience in the investment business. He brings to Clean Energy Capital significant talent and experience in evaluating, structuring, and executing large, complex financial transactions as well as experience in selecting, supervising and evaluating highly competent professionals in the finance industry.Scott Brittenham has led the firm in acquiring investment capital from over 600 investors, including smaller accredited investors, ultra high-net-worth investors, small, large and large international investment firms. From start-up, Scott Brittenham has raised and advised more than $140 million for investment in the biofuels industry.
His travels to raise capital for the Fund have included most parts of the U. S. as well as foreign countries including England, Ireland, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Brazil. He advised two major international institutions on their large biofuels investments in the United States.
Scott Brittenham led CEC’s analysis of more than 200 biofuels investment opportunities, of which Clean Energy Capital has invested in 7 biofuel companies. Scott Brittenham has close business relationships with top executives of industry-leading companies in renewable energy fuel biorefinery, infrastructure, and technology sectors.
Scott Brittenham serves on the board of directors of several biofuels companies. As a member of boards of directors, he serves as either a member or chairman of the risk management, governance, finance, and strategic committees. He is the chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committees of one the 10 largest biofuels companies in the United States. In light of his extensive experience as a vice president and managing director of three prominent investment firms on Wall Street, where he was responsible for areas he managed and accounts he directed for billions of dollars in trading and hedging, he has made significant contributions to upgrading the standards of performance of boards of directors and management of biofuels plants.
Scott Brittenham grew up in Nebraska and graduated with honors from the University of Nebraska in 1980 with a business degree specializing in finance and economics. He was named to the Dean’s list of outstanding students. He served as assistant to the Dean of the Business College for two years. He enrolled in additional coursework at the New York University Graduate School of Business. Scott Brittenham is a member of the National Dean’s List, Omicron Delta Upsilon (National Honorary Society of Economics) and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
After graduating, he joined the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers. In his first year, he developed and administered Salomon Brothers’ world-renowned training program which was recognized in the Business Week year 1992 edition as “Finance University,” one of the great places to learn finance.
After completing the program, he joined the mortgage bond trading desk. He rose to Vice President two years after creating the training program and became at age 24 one of the youngest Vice Presidents’ in the firm’s history. As Vice President of this world renowned firm, he participated in one of the most dynamic, profitable and creative ventures on Wall Street during this period.
In 1987 Scott Brittenham joined Prudential Securities as Senior Vice President-Investments. Scott Brittenham managed a highly successful division of professionals responsible for mortgage and real estate investments. The group achieved a ranking of third among all Wall Street firms.
In 1990, Scott Brittenham joined First Boston Corporation as Vice President and co-head of the mortgage bond trading desk. He established First Boston as the No. 1 firm in the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) Commercial/Multifamily and Farmer MAC securities market. This area had one of the most significant profit increases and growth of any area on Wall Street in 1992.
In 1993, Scott Brittenham joined Bear Stearns as a Managing Director and manager in the mortgage bond department. In 1995, Scott Brittenham started his own investment firm to manage money through the investment funds he established.
In 1991 Scott Brittenham was awarded the Business Excellence Achievement Award from the University of Nebraska, and in 1993 he was appointed as a Trustee of the University of Nebraska Foundation.
Scott Brittenham has been featured and quoted in many national publications, including Forbes Magazine, Financial Times, Dow Jones News Wire, Institutional Investor, Bondweek, National Thrift News, Investment Dealer’s Digest, and Mortgage Backed Securities Newsletter.
During his successful Wall Street career, Scott Brittenham developed a more efficient and effective means to finance under-funded sectors of the United States economy; the housing and commercial real estate industries. His foresight and abilities enabled him to create unique solutions in the United States housing economy. Scott Brittenham has been involved with billions of dollars in mortgage transactions, both as an active participant and manager in the process of originating, structuring, and securitizing mortgage loans.
In addition to his work on Wall Street, Scott Brittenham has shown further successful entrepreneurial and management abilities through his private investment firm, Brittenham Investment Management, started in 1995, which was General Partner of Brittenham Diversified Industry Fund. Thereafter, in 1999, Scott Brittenham founded Fidelity Mortgage Inc. which had affiliate offices in 30 states. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer before leaving Fidelity in 2003 to co-found CEC. Scott Brittenham’s ability to recognize a segment of the economy needing capital to grow and expand led him to consider the biofuels industry. After considerable research over six months, Scott Brittenham concluded that the emerging biofuels industry was a promising industry where capital could be profitably deployed. Shortly thereafter, he co-founded CEC, which was the first fund in the U. S. to offer investors an opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of biofuels production plants.
