Blake Clifton is a Principal of Abundant Power Group. Blake has over ten years of private equity, investment banking and renewable energy experience, spanning: transaction diligence and execution, leveraged buyouts and growth equity investments, fundraising, and project development. Blake has experience originating and negotiating renewable energy investments and hands-on portfolio monitoring skills. Prior to joining Abundant Power Group, he worked with the Hastings Climate Leaders Fund, a private equity fund focused on renewable energy generation assets, and prior to that with Intrinergy LLC, a renewable energy project developer. Blake began his career in investment banking with Stephens, Inc. and Thomas Weisel Partners, and then Liberty Partners, a middle-market buyout firm. 

Blake holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Arts in English (Concentration in Applied Mathematics) from Davidson College, North Carolina, where he played Division-I tennis. Blake is a “Big Brother” in the Big Brother Big Sister Program and is on the Board of Directors of Street Soccer USA, a non-profit organization that utilizes soccer and community-based programs as vehicles to eradicate homelessness.